30/08/2024
The Reykjavik Friends of the Arts Society 42. season UMBRA celebrates ten years of music and merrymaking, in collaboration with The Reykjavík Friends of the Arts […]
22/03/2024
Good Friday, March 29 2024, 12 noon – 5:30 pm READER: Halldór Hauksson MUSIC PERFORMED by members of the baroque ensemble Consortico (12-14.30) and the chamber […]
08/12/2023
Beautiful Christmas concert with the celebrated Motet Choir, cello and children´s choir in the charming surroundings at Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík by the lake. For decades, The Motet […]
27/11/2023
The Vespers of the blessed Virgin -Vespro della Beata Vergine-(1610) by Italian renaissance/early baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi, is a particularly enchanting and marvellous version of the traditional […]
29/09/2023
BAROQUE MUSIC FROM VENICE- “TEARS vs. SONG”: The Intriguing Life of Barbara Strozzi ( 1619-1677) – A concert with the outstanding baroque group ENSEMBLE MASQUE in […]
04/08/2023
FESTIVE CONCERT IN HARPA (ELDBORG HALL) SUNDAY 27th AUGUST 2023 – 17:00 PROGRAMME: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791): REQUIEM K. 626 for 4 soloists, choir and orchestra LEONARD BERNSTEIN […]
15/05/2023
SUMMER EVENSONG Mótettukórinn will sing the summer in at the spring concert in Fella- og Hólakirkja church on the Ascension Day, the18th of May 2023, at […]
04/04/2023
COMPLETE READING OF THE HYMNS OF THE PASSION BY HALLGRÍMUR PÉTURSSON in HARPA Music Hall – NORÐURBRYGGJU on the first floor in front of KALDALÓN Good Friday, April […]
22/03/2023
The board of the Reykjavik Friends of the Arts society is delighted that the new oratorio GOSPEL OF MARY by the Icelandic composer HUGI GUÐMUNDSSON is […]
22/12/2022
Messiah by G.F. Händel was performed for a full house in Eldborg Harpa at the 40 years anniversary concert of the Motet Choir and the Reykjavik […]
14/10/2022
The Motet Choir with the Reykjavík International Baroque Orchestra and four excellent soloists perform Handel‘s Messiah conducted by Hörður Áskelsson in Harpa Concert Hall (Eldborg) Sunday […]
07/06/2022
Photos: Leifur Wilberg Orrason. Read more about world premiere of a new oratorio THE GOSPEL OF MARY here.
02/08/2018
Elke Eckerstorfer studied the organ, piano and harpsichord at the University of Music in Vienna. The winter of 2000/2001 she studied at the National Conservatory of […]