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Sigríður Freyja Ingimarsdóttir mezzosopran performs a recital under the title Calm blue -  dreaming.

The repertoire includes songs and poems by Rachmaninov and Dvorák. Arias by Purcell, Verdi and Saint-Säens, as well as Swedish and Icelandic songs.

The title “Calm blue – dreaming” refers to grief, love, prayer, life and hope.

Sigríður Freyja finished her advanced level in singing in 2010 under the guidance of Alina Dubik. She has also studied with Snæbjörg Snæbjarnardóttir, Ólöf Kolbrún Hardardóttir and Kristján Jóhannsson. Sigríður Freyja is a former member of the Opera choir in Reykjavik. She completed her piano teaching Diploma at the Reykjavik College of Music in 2001 and attended lessons in singing and piano playing at the New England Conservatory in Boston in 2003-2004. Sigríður Freyja is currently working with Alina Dubik and works as a music teacher at the Music School of Garðabær.

The accompanist is Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir.

Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir achieved her Recital Diploma at the Reykjavík College of Music under the guidance of Anna Þorgímsdóttir. Between 2000 and 2003 she studied with Reiko Neriki at Indiana University but has also attended many master classes and private classes in piano and chamber music with artists such as Geörgy Sebök, Ludwig Hoffmann, Janos Starker, Jürgen Schröder and Olaf Dressler. Ástríður has performed widely, both as soloist or with other musicians. She has released the solo album CHOPIN (2010), PORTRAIT (2014) with flutist Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir, the tango album FIMM Í TANGÓ (2010) and ALDARBLIK (2007) in collaboration with the Icelandic singers Eyjólfur Eyjólfsson and Ágúst Ólafsson.