{"id":2459,"date":"2014-12-24T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2014-12-24T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T12:03:32","slug":"festive-sounds-at-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/festive-sounds-at-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Sounds at New Years Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 31, New Years Eve<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<\/strong>5 pm<\/em><\/p>\n

Festive Sounds at New Years Eve!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Festive music for three trumpets, timpany and organ.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Famous works by J.S.Bach ( Toccata and fuge in d- minor), Albinoni ( Adagio), Zelenka, Charpentier and Vivaldi.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c1sgeir H. Steingr\u00edmsson, Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn P\u00e1lsson, Einar St. J\u00f3nsson trumpets, Eggert P\u00e1lsson timpany and H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1skelsson, Music Director of Hallgrimskirkja, organ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Admission ISK 3500. Ticket sale at MIDI.IS and in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hallgr\u00edmskirkja Friends of the Arts Society<\/strong>\u00a0invites now, for the 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0time, to the\u00a0Festive Sounds at New Year<\/em>\u00a0concert. They are intended to evoke a festive atmosphere fitting for the occasion when we bid the passing year farewell and greet the New Year.<\/p>\n

The sounding of the trumpets and drums has through the ages been connected to festivities. Samples of this can be found in the oldest hymnal of the Church, the Book of Psalms, where the Lord is praised with drums and trumpets. The sounding of the\u00a0trumpets \u2013 fanfares \u2013 are closely related to royalty, royal guards, and other forms of military activities. In the church, these instruments have been used to describe the risen Christ at Easter and the glory of the angels in the fields by Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

All the music this evening has its music rooted around 300 years ago during the baroque era. Most of the composers are born within 36 years, during 1643 to 1679.<\/p>\n

Since 1993 the Trompeteria group has given this concert every New Year\u2019s Eve. The trumpet players \u00c1sgeir H. Steingr\u00edmsson and Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn P\u00e1lsson and cantor and musical director of Hallgrimskirkja, H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1skelsson, have delighted their guests with their playing. A few years years ago Einar St. J\u00f3nsson and Eggert P\u00e1lsson joined the group.<\/p>\n

\u00c1sgeir Hermann Steingr\u00edmsson, Eir\u00edkur \u00d6rn P\u00e1lsson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Einar St. J\u00f3nsson\u00a0<\/strong>all completed their musical studies at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music before their further studies in the USA. \u00c1sgeir has a BM degree from Mannes College of Music in New York, Eir\u00edkur a BA degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston and an MFA degree from the Californian Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and Einar a BM degree from Indiana University. Today they are all members of the trumpet section of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra besides being very active on the music scene in the metropolitan area. They have all played with the Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra of the Icelandic Opera, various big bands such as the National Radio Big Band and the Reykjav\u00edk Big Band. Eir\u00edkur is also a founding member of the Caput Ensemble. They all have appeared as soloists with these orchestras. They are all three well-renowned teachers in music schools in Reykjav\u00edk and surroundings.<\/p>\n

Eggert P\u00e1lsson<\/strong>\u00a0studied the piano and percussion at the Reykjav\u00edk School of Music before travelling to Vienna in Austria to study at the Vienna Conservatory. Upon his return to Iceland he became the principal timpani player in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra\u00a0besides being very active on the music scene in the metropolitan area. He is a member of the Benda Percussion Ensemble and the Reykjav\u00edk Chamber Orchestra. He has also played with the Caput Ensemble and is a member of the vocal group Voces Thules that has specialized in performing medieval music and Gregorian chant.<\/p>\n

H\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u00c1skelsson<\/strong>\u00a0has been organist and musical director of Hallgr\u00edmskirkja since he completed his organ and church musical studies in D\u00fcsseldorf in Germany in 1982. He has played a key role in the development of artistic life in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja and was instigator to the Hallgr\u00edmskirkja Friends of the Arts Society, the biannual Sacred Arts Festival, and the International Organ Summer Festival. He is founder and director of the Hallgr\u00edmskirkja Motet Choir (1982) and the chamber choir Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis (1996).<\/p>\n

As an organist H\u00f6r\u00f0ur has given concerts in many of the largest churches in Europe, including St. Michaelis in Hamburg, in Cologne Cathedral, St. Sulpice in Paris and in the cathedrals of Brussels and Helsinki. He has gained major recognitions for his contribution to the Icelandic music scene, including the Icelandic Music Awards, the Icelandic Optimism Award and in 2004 he was made Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon.<\/p>\n

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H\u00f6r\u00f0ur, \u00c1sgeir and Eir\u00edkur gave a concert in the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg to a full house in the fall of 2005 with standing ovations, they played at the Frankfurt-H\u00f6chst Music Festival in Germany and in Akureyri Church. The CD Trompeteria contains many of their most popular works, it has been widely distributed and is for sale in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja and elsewhere. They are currently planning the recording of a new CD with emphasis on music for all five of them.<\/p>\n

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