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The Icelandic women´s choir Vox feminae now gives the concert Harps and strings. The choir will perform classical European and Icelandic compositions from the 16th century and onwards by Bach, Brahms, Grieg, Gjeilo, Hildigunnur Runarsdottir, Tryggvi M. Baldvinsson and others. The performers also include musicians on strings, harp and piano.

Vox feminae was founded in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1993 by conductor Margret J. Palmadottir. The choir mainly places emphasis on performing sacred music, Icelandic folkmusic and melodies, along with contemporary music by Icelandic composers, e.g. a Mass by Bara Grimsdottir, which was premiered during the festival Dark Music Days in Reykjavik in 2013 and Stabat Mater by John A. Speight in 2008.

Vox feminae acknowledges the importance of promoting Icelandic female choral music by giving concerts together with CD publishing. The choir has published three CDs: Mamma geymir gullin þín with Icelandic folkmusic and Himnadrotting and Ave Maria with sacred compositions.

The choir has toured widely abroad and was awarded the silver medal in the VIII International Sacred Music Choir Competition held in 2000 in the Vatican in Rome, Italy, in the name of the composer Palestrina. Apart from the choir´s own concerts, Vox feminae has perfomed innumerable times in Iceland, e.g. with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra in The Planets by Gustav Holst and in Mahler’s Third Symphony.