28/04/2016

Ninety years of Nordal – The Academy of the Arts and the Friends of the Arts Society celebrate composer Jón Nordal’s ninetieth birthday

Composer Jón Nordal has written some of Iceland´s best loved songs, one of them a beautiful lullaby to the lyrics of the Iclelandic Nobel Prize winning […]
13/04/2016

Fun photos from Peter and the Wolf

Just before Easter we had Swedish organist Mattias Wager and Icelandic actress Halldora Geirhardsdottir perform Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Both children and parents were enthralled […]
13/04/2016

Lovely children’s voices in Hallgrimskirkja – Video

The Friends of the Arts Society has received a beautiful video recording made on Maundy Thursday, March 24th, in Hallgrimskirkja. On that day, over 100 children […]
22/03/2016

A hundred singing children, the complete reading of the Passion Hymns and renaissance music with Schola Cantorum in the Holy Week

Easter is always a grand celebration in Hallgrimskirkja and we have a busy and festive week ahead. On Holy Thursday a choir of 120 children will […]