sunnuhvoll bárðardal
viðburðir/events
alþjóðleg tónlistarhátíð
international music festival
20.-21. júlí 2023
Hópur alþjóðlegra listamanna úr framvarðasveit samtímatónlistar kemur fram á tónlistarhátíð á
Sunnuhvoli, Bárðardal fimmtudaginn 20. og föstudaginn 21. júlí 2023. Tónlistarmennirnir sem koma
fram á hátíðinni hafa hlotið heimsathygli fyrir verk sín og eiga það sameiginlegt að leggja áherslu
á samsköpun og útvíkkun hefðbundinna tónlistarforma. Alls verða fimm tónleikar í hlöðunni á
Sunnuhvoli auk orgeltónleika í Lundarbrekkukirkju.
Sérhverjir tónleikar eru um klukkustund að
lengd.
Enginn aðgangseyrir er á hátíðina en tekið er við frjálsum framlögum. Öll velkomin.
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Join us for a unique music festival where distinguished musicians perform in the spectacular
surroundings of Sunnuhvoll in Bárðardalur. The musicians performing have received worldwide
attention for their work in experimental music.
Five concerts are held at Sunnuhvoll’s barn and
one at Lundarbrekka church. No entry fee, contributions are welcomed.
dagskrá/program
Fim/Thu 20. júlí
Sunnuhvoll
20:00 Amy Cimini víóla/viola
21:00 Trio: Ana Luisa de Cossio fiðla/violin, Cameron Anderton fagott/bassoon, Ása Ólafsdóttir, gítar/guitar
22:00 Yvette Jackson: Left Behind – Brot úr/Excerpt from Radio Opera
Yvette
Jackson raf/electronics, Amy Cimini víóla/viola, Berglind M. Tómasdóttir flauta/flute
Fös 21. júlí
Lundarbrekkukirkja/Lundarbrekka Church
17:00 Tiffany
Ng
Tónlist eftir/Music by Sarah Davachi:
Harmonies in Green (2021)
Harmonies in Grey (2021)
og fleiri verk/and other works (TBC)
Sunnuhvoll
20:00 Harp & Arp
Jesper
Pedersen rafhljóð/electronics, Katie Buckley harpa/harp
21:00 in^set trio
David Aguila trompet/trumpet, Teresa Díaz de Cossio
flauta/flute, Ilana Waniuk fiðla/violin
nánar um hátíðina (English below)
Á Alþjóðlegri tónlistarhátíð á Sunnuhvoli í Bárðardal koma fram tónlistarmenn sem hafa
hlotið heimsathygli fyrir verk sín. Þar á meðal er bandaríska tónskáldið Yvette Janine Jackson en
hluti útvarpsóperu hennar, Left Behind, verður fluttur á fimmtudagskvöldinu 21. júlí af
henni sjálfri, Berglindi Maríu Tómasdóttur og Amy Cimini. Yvette hefur hlotið mikið lof fyrir verkið
sem var flutt á Feneyjartvíæringnum í tónlist haustið 2022. Sama kvöld flytur bandaríski
fiðluleikarinn og tónskáldið Amy Cimini eigin tónlist fyrir fiðlu. Auk þess koma fram þrír ungir
tónlistarmenn, Ana Luisa de Cossio fiðluleikari, Cameron Anderton fagottleikari og Ása Ólafsdóttir
gítarleikari, en öll hafa þau nýlokið námi frá tónlistardeild Listaháskóla Íslands. Dagskrá
föstudagsins 21. júlí hefst með síðdegistónleikum í Lundarbrekkjukirkju þar sem Tiffany Ng leikur
tónlist fyrir orgel eftir Sarah Davachi, en plata þeirrar síðarnefndu, Little Sister, sem inniheldur
leik Tiffany, var valin ein af tíu plötum ársins 2022 af tónlistartímaritinu The Wire. Dagskráin
heldur áfram í Sunnuhvolshlöðunni á föstudagskvöld þegar Katie Buckley hörpuleikari og Jesper
Pedersen raftónlistarmaður flytja tilraunakennda raftónlist undir merkjum Harp & Arp. Dagskránni
lýkur með tónleikum in^set tríó, skipað David Aguila trompet, Teresa Díaz de Cossio flauta og Ilana
Waniuk fiðla. Tríóið frumflytur verk eftir Berglindi Maríu Tómasdóttur og Jesper Pedersen sem eru
sérstaklega samin að þessu tilefni auk annarra verka.
Það heyrir til tíðinda að jafn
metnaðarfull tónlistarhátíð á sviði samtímatónlistar eigi sér stað á Íslandi og því mikill fengur að
hátíðinni fyrir Bárðdælinga, Þingeyinga og innlenda og erlenda gesti sveitarinnar.
tónlistarstjóri:
Berglind María Tómasdóttir
Hátíðin er styrkt af Tónlistarsjóði og Tónskáldasjóði RÚV.
the concerts
Thursday evening Yvette Jackson, Berglind Tómasdóttir and Amy Cimini will perform excerpts from Yvette’s radio opera Left Behind for which she has received a lot of praise and performed it widely, including last year’s Venice Biennale.
On the same evening, Amy Cimini will perform a solo set featuring original music for violin.
Thursday evening will also see the performance of up and coming musicians and recent graduates from Iceland University of the Arts composers and performers Ana Luisa de Cossio violinist, Cameron Anderton bassoonist and Ása Ólafsdóttir guitarist, also known as Asalaus.
Friday July 21, starts with a concert in the afternoon at Lundabrekkukirkja, a local church in the vicinity of Sunnuhvoll. Tiffany Ng will play organ music by Sarah Davachi, whose album, Two Sisters, featuring Tiffany’s playing, was named a top 10 album of 2022 in The Wire magazine.
The festival continues on Friday evening with harpist Katie Buckley and electronic musician Jesper Pedersen, performing experimental electronic music under the banner of Harp & Arp.
The program ends with a concert by the in^set trio: a flexible chamber ensemble dedicated to creation, improvisation and experimentation. Founded in 2018 by David Aguila (trumpet), Teresa Díaz de Cossio (flute), and Ilana Waniuk (violin). At Sunnuhvoll, they will premiere works by Berglind María and Jesper Pedersen, specially composed for the occasion in addition to their own works.
music director:
Berglind María Tómasdóttir
our supporters
Music Fund (Tónlistarsjóður) RÚV’s Composers’ Fund
listamennirnir/the artists
Tiffany Ng Commanding a range of expression from “eerie sonance” (Diapason) to “jumpy athleticism” (Chicago Classical Review), Tiffany Ng is Associate Professor of Carillon at the University of Michigan and chair of the Organ Department. Her concert career spans festivals in seventeen countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, where she has premiered over 60 acoustic and electroacoustic works, championed women composers, and pioneered models for interactive and environmental-data-driven carillon performances. Her album Dark Matters (innova) has been hailed as “ravishingly beautiful” (New York Music Daily) and a “revelation…by turns soulful and dancelike” (The WholeNote), and her latest album appearance is on Sarah Davachi’s Two Sisters, a top 10 album of 2022 in The Wire magazine. She is editor-in-chief of www.CarillonWomen.org.
Yvette Jackson is a composer and sound artist, and Assistant Professor at Harvard University Department of Music. She is a composer of electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral musics for concert, theater, and installation. Building on her experience as a theatrical sound designer, she blends various forms into her own aesthetic of narrative soundscape composition, radio opera, and improvisation. Her works often draw from history to examine relevant social issues. Thursday evening Yvette, Berglind and Amy Cimini will perform excerpts from her radio opera Left Behind for which she has received a lot of praise and performed it widely, including last year’s Venice Biennale.
Trio Musicians, and recent graduates from Iceland University of the Arts, composers and performers Ana Luisa de Cossio violinist, Cameron Anderton bassoonist and Ása Ólafsdóttir guitarist, also known as Asalaus.
Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio is a performer-composer musician whose work traverses the space between social structures, individuality, spontaneity, and explores resonance in physical as well as cultural space. Through extreme extended techniques, Ana challenges conventional violin playing, exploring the possibilities and limits of sounds within the instrument. Her music is informed by political, social, and cultural awareness of the systems constituting our societies.
With a keen interest in experimental music, Ana has taken workshops with the Silk Road Ensemble, Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute, Collaboratory-Paris as part of Manifesté-IRCAM and has been part of the ANMA+NordPlus Music Forum (EE), Dark Music Days (IS), Time for Music (FI), ActinArt (DK) among others. Ana holds degrees from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Listaháskóli Íslands.
Check out Ana’s work: analuisadiazdecossio.com
Asalaus’s live performances are equally impressive, featuring a combination of improvisation and structured compositions that showcase the artist’s technical ability and intuitive sense of texture and melody. Listen to Asalaus on Spotify.
Cameron Anderton is a bassoonist and mixed-media artist, based in Reykjavik, whose practice is focused primarily on instrumental composition, field recording, sound art, and installation. His work is inspired by cultural and philosophical traditions with deep roots. His work mostly touches upon Scottish identity, calling into question concepts of folklore, land ownership, animism, and eradicated traditions. Cameron’s interest in artistic and philosophical traditions stems from the same sense of universality that the natural world evokes in him.
Berglind Tómasdóttir
is a flutist and interdisciplinary artist living in Reykjavík, Iceland. In her
work she frequently explores identity and archetypes, as well as music as a social
phenomenon.
An advocate of new music, Berglind has worked with composers such as
Björk, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Peter Ablinger and Carolyn Chen, and received
commissions from Dark Music Days, The National Flute Association, Cycle Music and
Art Festival, Reykjavík Arts Festival and Nordic Music Days, to name a
few.
Berglind Tómasdóttir holds degrees from Reykjavik College of Music and The
Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and a DMA in contemporary music
performance from University of California, San Diego.
Berglind is a
professor in contemporary music performance and program director of NAIP (New
Audiences and Innovative Practice) at Iceland University of the Arts.
Katie Buckley grew up in the US and is the principal harpist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Besides performing with the symphony she also works with various groups playing different styles of music. She is also used as a session musician and appears on various movie soundtracks and releases.
Jesper Pedersen is a multifaceted experimental musician that creates new music as a composer, improviser, and performer. He has been part of the experimental music scene in Iceland for well over a decade, and performs his electronic emissions on modular synthesizer and electronics.
Amy Cimini is musicologist, violist, teacher and Associate Professor of Music at UC San Diego. She works on questions of power, community and technology in 20th & 21st century experimental music, sound art and auditory culture. She is author of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford 2022) and she is co-editor of Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interview (Blank Forms Editions 2020) with composer and theorist Bill Dietz. In other articles, she explores race and digital art curation; debates about feminist music theory; listening and border militarization and other topics. As a violist, she plays with composer Katherine Young in the duo Architeuthis Walks on Land and in improvised ensembles and experimental rock bands. She also makes solo music that critically explores local music and sound recording archives and soundscapes in San Diego. Amy serves on the editorial board of the journal Women and Music as well as the Graduate Education Committee in the American Musicological Society. She is a founding member of the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the AMS and serves on the board of the Maryanne Amacher Foundation. In San Diego, she is happy to work with the arts organization Space Time and well as LIBROS, a cross-border librarianship and artistic collective.
um sunnuhvol
Sunnuhvoll er jörð í Bárðardal þar sem gömul hús vaxa með nýju hlutverki. Býlið reis í áföngum á árunum 1933-1968 sem nýbýli út frá Sigurðarstöðum en hefðbundinn búskapur lagðist af á Sunnuhvoli um aldamót. Frá árinu 2017 hefur verið unnið að skapandi varðveislu húsakostsins á Sunnuhvoli þar sem lagt er út frá tengslum fólks við einstakt umhverfi staðarins á bökkum Skjálfandafljóts og innblástur sóttur í minningar, handverk, landslag og liðna sögu.
Virkjun bæjarhúsanna hefur meðal annars alið af sér ilmsmiðjur, keramikvinnustofur, bókmenntaupplestra, bruggtilraunir með staðbundnar jurtir og frá árinu 2020 hafa verið haldnir sumartónleikar í hlöðunni á Sunnuhvoli sem hefur sannað sig sem úrvals tónleikastaður.
Á bakvið starfsemina á Sunnuhvoli standa Gunnlaugur Friðriksson tölvunarfræðingur og ábúandi á Sunnuhvoli og Anna María Bogadóttir arkitekt og rithöfundur.
about sunnuhvoll
Sunnuhvoll farm, North Iceland is a performative architecture and art project. The farm was built between 1933-1968 as a new farm out of Sigurðarstaðir, but traditional farming stopped at Sunnuhvoll at the turn of the century.
Since 2017, creative preservation has been ongoing, with an adaptive reuse strategy that honours the originality of the farmhouses that are expanded with experimental art and social activities informed by memories, craftsmanship, knowledge, landscapes, and stories of the past. The overall creative approach draws inspiration from the way people connect and relate to the site and surrounding area on the bank of Skjálfandi glacial river, a step from the Icelandic highlands.
Programmatic exploration has ranged from literary gatherings, ceramic workshops, lectures, aroma workshops, and microbrewery experiments with local herbs.
Since 2020 annual public concerts have been held at Sunnuhvoll‘s large barn, Bárðardalur’s Nr.1 Music Hall.
Gunnlaugur Friðriksson, computer scientist , and Anna María Bogadóttir, architect and writer, are behind the activities at Sunnuhvoll.
Sunnuhvoll Bárðardal 