Tag: kjartan sveinsson

as kjartan sveinsson tours throughout europe this week, we look back to last year when he spoke to “life of the record” about recording “ágætis byrjun”. you can listen back here https://plnk.to/lifeoftherecord there are also some very limited copies of ágætis byrjun available on the store: http://smarturl.it/sigurros-store

jónsi, kjartan sveinsson and alex somers will be taking part in the people festival in berlin on the 18th and 19th of august. update: july 23rd. jónsi wont be performing at people festival. kjartan sveinsson and alex somers are still performing. tickets are on sale now. details about the festival are below: welcome people! we’re […]

credo, by kjartan, will receive its canadian premiere on the 1st of february at the “new music festival” that takes places in winnipeg. the piece will be performed by the winnipeg symphony orchestra as part of the festivals “icelandia” night, along with pieces by nico muhly, daníel bjarnason, valgeir sigurðsson. tickets for the event are […]

left to right: choral arranger john o’ brien, conductor robert ziegler and kjartan sveinsson. photo by clare keogh) as mentioned a few months back – “credo” by kjartan sveinsson was performed in cork, ireland, on the 29th of july as part of “the reich effect” season. kjartan’s piece performed by the rté orchestra and voice […]

an icelandic / danish film called “volcano”, directed by rúnar rúnarsson will get its premiere at cannes film festival today in france. the music to the movie was scored by kjartan. information on the film is available at the website of the icelandic film centre update: variety magazine posted an overview of the film here.

kjartan sveinsson will be taking part in two performances over the next few months – the first in austria in june and the second in ireland in july. “take me here by the dishwasher” – vienna, austria. june 8th. kjartan composed the soundtrack to the piece “take me here by the dishwasher” by icelandic artist […]

kjartan sveinsson will appear in the bbc radio 4 programme jules verne’s volcano next thursday (the 14th of april) at 11:30am. the programme is a sound portrait of iceland, investigating one of iceland’s more literary but no less famous volcanoes, snæfellsjökull (the glacier that contains the passage to the centre of the earth in verne’s […]

kjartan has written music for acclaimed icelandic artist ragnar kjartansson‘s installation at charlottenborg palace in denmark this saturday (march 5). the piece features 10 acoustic guitarists playing new music kjartan has written for a period of 8 hours from 12 noon til 8pm. the music features 8 interwoven pieces that form a rolling and repetitive […]