New season 2016-2017
A musical celebration every week
Harpa will be the venue for a symphonic celebration almost every week in Reykjavik, during the coming season 2016-2017. Concertgoers can expect a marvelous experience with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
This season, a host of outstanding artists will visit Iceland in order to perform with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Piano virtuosi Nikolai Lugansky and Stephen Hough perform two of Rachmaninoff's most famous works, and Paul Lewis is at the centre of the stage in the new Beethoven cycle of three concerts featuring all of Beethoven's piano concerti. Among the violinists joining the orchestra this year are Christian Tetzlaff, Viviane Hagner, James Ehnes, and Alina Ibragimova, all world-renowned artists with whom the ISO is proud to perform.
It is particularly satisfying to see so many Nordic artists on this year's roster. In September the orchestra will participate in the Nordic Music Days festival, which will include some of the most interesting new works from the Nordic countries. Over the course of the winter, we will hear pieces by four of Finland's leading contemporary composers: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho, and Magnus Lindberg. And two world-famous Nordic soloists will perform in Iceland for the first time: the Danish-Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid and the Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku. Works by Nielsen and Sibelius will be heard under the baton of Finnish conductors Osmo Vänskä and John Storgårds, and the season will close with recordings of works by Swedish composer Dag Wirén for the Chandos label.
Several Icelandic soloists will perform with the orchestra as well. Víkingur Ólafsson will play two concerti on the same concert in November, Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir will play Bach on the Advent concert, and five singers will appear at the ISO's feast of operatic music in September.
Icelandic composers will also be under the spotlight. The orchestra will premiere new works by Haukur Tómasson and Hafliði Hallgrímsson, and older works from various periods will be heard again, including pieces by Páll Ísólfsson, Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir, and Þuríður Jónsdóttir.
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