{"id":2684,"date":"2015-10-01T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hafnarborg.wpengine.com\/?post_type=event&p=2684"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:49:04","slug":"phonemes-words","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/phonemes-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonemes – Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday Octorber\u00a011th at 8 p.m.<\/strong> the first Phonemes concert of the season will be held in Hafnarborg, where Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra Haraldsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>violist and composer will perform a new version of the music theater piece\u00a0Words<\/em>\u00a0by Gr\u00e9ta Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir composer. Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra\u00a0composed the new version with regard to\u00a0\u00d6ll fallegu or\u00f0in,<\/em>\u00a0a\u00a0book of poems by Linda Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir which was published in the year 2000.\u00a0Words, music and physical expression are here combined into one unseparable whole, where the optical and acoustic elements of the project are interlinked with the input of the poems. The performance is about an hour in transit.<\/p>\n

Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra Haraldsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, violist, performs equally the roles of an artist, composer and improvisation actor. She regularly performs with orchestras, singing bowls and improvisation actors, and has worked with a number of groups related to physical theater and performances.\u00a0Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra has premiered many new works for solo viola at festivals such as the Dark Music Days in Iceland, Tectonics Glasgow and Dogstar festival in Los Angeles. Kristin studied viola at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and graduated in 2011 with a master’s\u00a0degree in performance, composition and integrated media at California Institute of the Arts.<\/p>\n

\u00de\u00f3runn Gr\u00e9ta Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, composer, has over the years composed\u00a0her\u00a0work in varied\u00a0kinds of visual related media such as video works, installations and animation, as well as focusing on the possibilites of music theater\u00a0in her\u00a0approach in the\u00a0recent years. \u00de\u00f3runn Gr\u00e9ta graduated with a\u00a0baccalaureate in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2011 and with\u00a0a\u00a0Master’s degree in composition from the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Hamburg in January 2014. She has attended master classes in composition, piano and improvisation in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Iceland.<\/p>\n

Phonemes is a concert series at Hafnarborg, dedicated to presenting music by various contemporary\u00a0composers from the 20th and 21st century with a focus on small settings of chamber music. Light is shed upon subjects of contemporary music today and the artistic research of composers in the abstract world of poetry of sounds. The name of the series, Phonemes, references the basic unit of language\u2019s phonology, phoneme, which can be combined and re-arranged with other phonemes in terms of forming meaningful units such as words or morphemes. Each concert is a combination of various phonemes that could or could not bring a meaning to the audience.\u00a0The Phenomenes concerts are\u00a0sponsored by the T\u00f3nlistarsj\u00f3\u00f0ur, the Musical fund\u00a0of the\u00a0Ministry of Education in Iceland.<\/p>\n

Concert tickets are available through the web on www.midi.is and www.tix.is and also in Hafnarborg\u2019s reception or through phone, nr. 585-5790. \u00a0General price of the ticket is\u00a02500 ISK and 1500 ISK for senior citizens and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday Octorber\u00a011th at 8 p.m. the first Phonemes concert of the season will be held in Hafnarborg, where Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra Haraldsd\u00f3ttir\u00a0violist and composer will perform a new version of the music theater piece\u00a0Words\u00a0by Gr\u00e9ta Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir composer. Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra\u00a0composed the new version with regard to\u00a0\u00d6ll fallegu or\u00f0in,\u00a0a\u00a0book of poems by Linda Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir which was published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2669,"menu_order":321,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-2684","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8829,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2684\/revisions\/8829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}