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Visions de l´amen: Messiaen

Concert at Reykjavík Arts Festival with the Iceland premiere of Visions de l´amen by Olivier Messiaen with pianist Anna Gudný Gudmundsdóttir. A special occasion since we first started talking about this in 2008. The concert will be held in Harpa Concert Hall, Norðurljós Recital Hall on Sunday June 3rd at 11am30. Prior to the concert Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, musicologist, will talk about Messiaen and his music. Tickets and more on the event on Reykjavík Arts Festival and Harpa
Anna Guðný Guðmundsdóttir

Toys!

Concert in Jadarber new music series at Reykjavík Art Museum, which focuses on music made with toys or with game elements. Lots of premieres and experiments and a.o. Suite for toy piano by Thráinn Hjálmarsson. Performers are Tinna, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Katie Buckley, Frank Aarnink, Páll Ivan Pálsson, Jesper Pedersen, Thráinn Hjálmarsson and Skúli mennski. Where: Kjarvalsstadir When: March 28 2012 at 8 pm
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Sonorities I, II, III by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson at Tectonics Music Festival (and more)

Tinna plays the complete Sonorities cycle for piano (1963-1972) and Four Abstractions (1951, the first Icelandic twelve-tone piece) by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson at the brand new Tectonics Music Festival, curated by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra´s Music Director Ilan Volkov, on Friday March 2nd 2012 at 7 pm in Nordurljós Recital Hall in Harpa Concert Hall in a concert dedicated to the composer. Tinna premiered Sonorities II (1968) by Magnús Blöndal in 2010, so this will be a happy occasion!
She will also participate in the performance of John Cage´s Music for Amplified Toy Pianos at the same festival on Thursday March 1st at 10 pm in Nordurljós Recital Hall and the premiere of Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson´s new piece Horpma III on Saturday March 3rd at 4 pm in Nordurljós Recital Hall
Tectonics Music Festival´s program

John Cage´s Centennial – Concert

Jadarber, the new music series, celebrates John Cage´s Centennial with a portrait concert on February 15. Tinna performs Suite for Toy Piano, And the Earth Shall Bear Again and Prelude for Meditation for prepared piano, Six Melodies for Violin and Piano (Keyboard) with Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violinist and participates in the performance of Fontana Mix among others
Wednesday Feb 15 2012 at 8 pm in Kjarvalsstadir
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All-premiere recital at Dark Music Days 2012

Tinna will give her 3rd all-premiere recital at Dark Music Days festival 2012… with very special guest: Frank Aarnink, percussionist. She gave the first of its kind in Iceland in 2005 at the same festival and the second one at Reykjavík Arts Festival in 2007. The program:

Mozaik VI (2010) f. piano and electronic resonance: Kjartan Ólafsson
scape (2011): Anna S. Thorvaldsdóttir
the Negotiation of Context – C (2011): Davíd Brynjar Franzson
Jökla and Embla (2011): Jónas Tómasson
Hyrnan II (2012): Hafdís Bjarnadóttir
283° (2012) f. piano and video: Áki Ásgeirsson

Saturday January 28th at 4 pm in Harpa Concert Hall – Nordurljós Recital Hall
www.darkmusicdays.is

TV recording

Tv recording of John Cage´s And the Earth Shall Bear Again for prepared piano and Kalimba by Karlheinz Essl for toy piano and electronics, for a new music program on RUV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service) hosted by pianist Víkingur Heidar Ólafsson. Jan 11 2012

Frozen Berries

Frozen Berries – A Nordic concert in the music series Jadarber at Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, November 30th 2011 at 8 pm. Free entrance.

This concept-art based concert focuses on young Nordic composers who are known for progressive and innovative compositions. The composers are Stine Sørlie (NO), Øyvind Torvund (NO), Simon Steen-Andersen (DK) and Kaj Aune (DK). A brand new chamber work by Øyvind Torvund will be premiered in this concert and a.o. works Failure (2002) for prepared piano and video by Kaj Aune will be heard
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John Cage and Pauline Oliveros

Tinna performs a prepared piano work by John Cage and the performance group Fengjastrútur plays a work by Pauline Oliveros in connection with the exhibition A New Art Emerges at Reykjavík Art Museum and the new music series Jadarber. Gallery talk with curator Jón Proppé and Dagný Kristjánsdóttir, professor in Icelandic Literature at University of Iceland, discuss modern Icelandic literature in the 1960s. Starting at 3 pm in Kjarvalsstadir, Sunday October 9 2011
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The experimental sixties

Concert in the new music series Jadarber in connection with the art exhibition A New Art Emerges at Reykjavík Art Museum. When: Wednesday October 26 2011 at 8 pm. Where: Kjarvalsstadir – Free admission. Performers are the Jadarber collective.

Program:
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson: Frostrósir (1970) video- and electronic work with ballet by Ingibjörg Björnsdóttir
Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson: Fípur (1971) electronic work
Atli Heimir Sveinsson: Mengi (1966) for piano
Nam June Paik: Dragging Suite (year unknown)
Leifur Thórarinsson: Piece (1966) for clarinet, cello and piano
Yoko Ono: Lighting Piece (1955) and Toilet Piece (1971)
Dieter Roth: Der Akkorden Fluch (1981-82)
Thorsteinn Hauksson: Humma? (1972) for two sopranos and bass

Fluxus 2

The music group Fengjastrútur and Tinna perform Ben Vautier´s Piano Concerto No. 2 for Paik and Takehisa Kosugi´s Distance for Piano (To David Tudor) (both from 1965) in connection with the exhibition A New Art Emerges at Reykjavík Art Museum and the new music series Jadarber. Gallery talk with curator Jón Proppé and Bjarki Sveinbjörnsson, director of Tónlistarsafn Íslands (Icelandic Music Museum), on Icelandic music in the 60´s. Starting at 3 pm in Kjarvalsstadir, Sunday October 9 2011
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Nordic Music Days 2011

Tinna will perform in CAPUT Ensemble´s concert on Nordic Music Days 2011, in Davíd Brynjar Franzson´s the negotiation of context – b for two pianos and two percussion and in Per Magnusson´s (d)u(e)nison for two pianists and electronics. Harpa, Sunday October 9th 2011 at 1pm
Nordic Music Days 2011

Freyja and Tinna

Freyja Gunnlaugsdóttir, clarinetist and Tinna are playing an afternoon concertin on Seltjarnarnes Cultural and Art Festival. The program consists of Roumanian Folk Dances by B. Bartók, Romanze by Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen and Two Movements by Weiner Leó. Seltjarnarnes Library, Oct 3rd 2011 at 5pm30

Fluxus

Tinna performs George Brecht´s Incidental Music and Tomas Schmit´s Piano Piece No. 1 from 1962 in connection with the exhibition A New Art Emerges at Reykjavík Art Museum and the new music series Jadarber. Jón Proppé gives a curator´s talk and the performances will precede and follow the talk, starting at 3 pm in Kjarvalsstadir, Sunday September 18th 2011
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performing George Brecht: Incidental Music		This is on the other hand Piano Piece No. 1 by Tomas Schmit
		then all of a sudden…
	and the happening continued!

Now Now on the TV program Kastljós

Kastljós (the TV news program on RUV) did a lengthy documentation on Jadarber´s first event yesterday: Now Now by artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir. Interviews and shots from the performance
Now Now on Kastljós

New piano and Jadarber´s first event

A new piano was given to Reykjavík Art Museum yesterday by Landsbankinn and inaugurated at the new music series Jadarber´s first event: Now Now by artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir. And it´s a Petrof!

Now Now on Jadarber and Reykjavík Dance Festival

Now Now is the name of the multifaceted project by artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, which will have a performance in the newly founded new music series Jadarber and Reykjavík Dance Festival 2011. Two performances are scheduled for Thursday September 8th at 12pm15 and Saturday September 10th 2011 at 5 pm in Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhúsid.

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Now Now

Now Now by artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir, with dancer Snaedís Lilja Ingadóttir and four gymnasts on Reykjavík Dance Festival and the new music series Jadarber.

John Cage – Reykjavík Gay Pride

Classical Pride. A concert in Harpa Concert Hall, Northern Lights Auditorium with eleven Icelandic musicians performing music by gay composers. Playing: And the Earth Shall Bear Again for prepared piano by John Cage. Free admission. August 5th 2011 at 8 pm
Reykjavík Gay Pride

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Harpa

So much fun when people gather around the piano to have a look inside	My credit card never sounded better	and the bamboo stick really rocked
The joy of John Cage

Tinna and Icelandic piano music

About Tinna´s premieres in 2010 on Iceland Music Informations Centre´s web page:
Iceland Music Information Centre

Venice Biennale

The official Icelandic representation at the 54th International Art Exhibition — La Biennale
di Venezia is the visual art duo Ólafur Ólafsson and Libia Castro. The music video The Constitution of Iceland (with composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir) will be showcased at the Icelandic pavilion from 1.6. – 27.11. 2011. Further about the artists´project on their webpage:
Óli y Libia
Karólína Eiríksdóttir

New work for Halldorophone and prepared piano

A concert with premieres for Halldorophones by artist Halldór Arnar Úlfarsson and other instruments, a.o. the premiere of a new work for prepared piano and Halldorophone by Hallvardur Ásgeirsson with Sandra Ósk Snæbjörnsdóttir. The concert is part of the art exhibition Hljódheimar (Sound Fields) at the National Gallery of Iceland, Saturday April 2nd 2011 at 2 pm
Hallvardur Ásgeirsson
Halldór Arnar Úlfarsson

Halldorophone in rehearsal