Concert for the climate
The opening concert of the festival takes place in the University of Iceland and is a collaboration with the University's own Lunch Time Recital Series, Háskólatónleikar.
All the pieces on the programme have a connection to Nature and two new pieces will be premiered. Greta's Song by Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson is a piece written to excerpts from Greta Thunberg's speeches and Amadah by Catherine Maria Stankiewicz for solo cello and a dancer.
Programme:
Atli Heimir Sveinsson (1938-2019):
Úr Jónasarlögum:
Úr Hulduljóðum
Dalvísa
Catherine Maria Stankiewicz (1984):
Amadah for solo cello and a dancer
J. Massenet (1842 - 1912):
Elegie for voice, cello and piano
Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson (1983):
Greta's Song
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (1965):
A New World
Entry is free.
After the concert, everyone is invited to a free climate soup in the Nordic House for as long as there's some soup in the pot!