A concert of French baroque music for flute and harpsichord with music by M. Blavet, J.M. Hotteterre, J.M. Leclair and Fr. Couperin.
- Date(s)
- February 27, 2025
- Location
- Harty Room, Music Building
- Time
- 13:10 - 14:00
Guðrún Óskarsdóttir is a dedicated interpreter of both baroque and contemporary music and has taken part in numerous first performances. She studied the piano at the Reykjavík College of music. There she also got to know the harpsichord and had her first lessons with Helga Ingólfsdóttir. For further studies she went to Holland and studied at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam with Anneke Uittenbosch and later with Jesper Böje Christensen at Scola Cantorum in Basel and with Francoise Lengellé in Paris.
Guðrún is featured on numerous recordings and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in recitals and concerts in Iceland, Europe, USA and Japan. She is a member of Nordic Affect and Caput new music ensemble. She also plays regularly with the Icelandic Symphonie Orchestra and has performed for the Icelandic Opera and the Icelandic Dance Company. She is a strong advocate for new music being created for the harpsichord. For her solo album “In Paradisum” with new Icelandic music, she received the Icelandic Music Awards 2016.
Magnea Arnadottir studied flute at the Reykjavik College of Music and continued her musical training in USA. She earned her BM in Flute Performance from Boston Conservatory of Music and went on to study with Marianne Gedigian at Boston University from where she graduated with Masters degree in Flute Performance in 1997. Since returning back home to Iceland, Magnea has played regularly with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Reykjavik College of Music.
In recent years she has devoted herself to the baroque flute and has performed regularly with baroque ensambles such as Barokkbandið Brak, ReykjavikBarokk and the International Baroque Orchestra of Reykjavik. She has also played with Orfeus Barock Ensemble Stockholm, with whom she recorded a CD that was nominated for the Swedish Grammis Award in 2018.