Name: Fersteinn + 1 feat. Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir
Start: 2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

$Fersteinn + 1 feat. Gunnhildur Einarsd\u00f3ttir$

Friday, February 28th
Fersteinn + 1 feat. Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr
Fersteinn heldur í annað sinn tónlistarpartíið Fersteinn plúseinn, þar sem einum listamanni er boðið að leika einhverja músík á undan Ferstein en jafnframt að koma fram með Ferstein. Í þetta sinnið er heiðursgesturinn enginn annar en Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir Hörpu-icon
Fersteinn celebrates Fersteinn +1 for the second time. In this music party series we invite a feature artist to go first and play something before Fersteinn enters the stage and also perform alongside the band Fersteinn on several pieces. This time around we welcome the harp icon Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir.
Fersteinn er íslensk hljómsveit sem starfrækt hefur verið frá árinu 2011 og var nokkurs konar afsprengi kammerhópsins Fengjastrúts. Hljómsveitin var sett saman til þess að sérhæfa sig í kvartettum Guðmundar Steins Gunnarssonar, móta þá og þróa og gera tilraunir til að flytja kvartettana og önnur skyld verk í hinum ýmsu ólíku samhengjum. Þannig hefur hljómsveitin komið fram á bókasöfnum, leikið fyrir börn og gamalmenni, á Sekvenses, á Ljóðahátíð ljóðfélagsins, Ljósanótt í Keflavík en einnig hefur hljómsveitin túrað í Hollandi, Belgíu, Sviss og Þýskalandi. Þá hafa tónsmiðar sem hópurinn hefur frumflutt einnig verið leikin af öðrum í borgum eins og Volgovgrad, Istanbul, Tromsö, Leicester, Oslo og víðar. Sveitin hefur sent frá sér 3 hljómplötur og eina þröngskífu en platan Lárviður var tilnefnd til Kraumsverðlauna árið 2017.
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Fersteinn is an Icelandic chamber group that was founded in 2011 and was an offshoot of Ensemble Fengjastrútur. The group specializes in the Kvartett’s of Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson and other similar repertoire. The group has performed in venues such as Wallgallery and De Player in Rotterdam, Vhleesaal in Middleburg, Bergerkirche in Dusseldorf, l’Epremere Ephemere in Brussels. In Iceland the group has performed in art openings, poetry festivals, town halls, community libraries as well as venues like Mengi. The music originally performed by Fersteinn has also traveled with other performers, such as Ensemble Adapter, Aksiom Ensemble, Ligeti Quartet and Goodiepal’s Icelandic Animated Notation Band. Fersteinn has released 3 albums and one EP and Lárviður was nominated for the Kraumur award in 2017.

Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir lauk doktorsprófi í tónlistarrannsóknum og tónlistarflutningi frá Síbelíusar Akademíunni árið 2013. Meistara- og bakkalárprófi lauk hún frá Tónlistarháskólanum í Amsterdam og lagði einnig stund á nám í barrokkhörpuleik við Tónlistarháskólann í Haag.
Árið 2004 stofnaði Gunnhildur ásamt Matthíasi Engler slagverksleikara Kammerhópinn Adapter. Auk þess að vera hörpuleikari hópsins hefur hún ásamt Matthíasi verið listrænn stjórnandi og framkvæmdastjóri hans. Adapter hefur verið aðal starfsvettvangur hennar allar götur síðan. Með hópnum Gunnhildur frumflutt hundruði verka, skipulagt fjölda tónleika og hátíða, haldið námskeið og fyrirlestra.
Gunnhildur hefur leikið með kammerhópum á borð við Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Mosaik, Caput og Kammersveit Reykjavíkur. Að auki hefur hún leikið með Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands, Konzerthausorchester í Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsorchester í München og Lautencompagnie í Berlin.

Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir began studying the harp at age 13 with harpist Elisabet Waage in Iceland. After high-school graduation, she continued her harp studies with Brigitte Sylvestre at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and later with Sioned Williams, principal harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. She went on to complete a Bachelor's Degree with distinction and a Master of Music Degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where her teacher was the renowned harpist and pedagogue Erika Waardenburg. During her studies in Holland, Gunnhildur specialized in the performance of contemporary music but also attended classes in early harp performance at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she learned to play the Italian triple harp under the guidance of Christina Pluhar. In 2013 Gunnhildur received a Doctor of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
In 2004 Gunnhildur founded the Ensemble Adapter together with percussionist Matthias Engler. Apart from her engagements with Adapter Gunnhildur is a regular guest with other European contemporary ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Mosaik among others, and has appeared as a guest with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Chamber Orchestra, Caput Ensemble and the Bayerische Staatsorchester. In 2014 Gunnhildur will take over the harp lectureship at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany where she will develop and teach workshops for harpists and composers. This will be the first time since the 1960's that the harp will pay an important role at the Darmstadt summer courses.