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Barokkbandi\u00f0 Brak
Benedikt Kristjansson – tenor
Elfa Run Kristinsdottir – violin, direction<\/span><\/div>\n
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* Barokkbandi\u00f0 Br\u00e1k<\/strong> lead by the renowned icelandic violinist Elfa R\u00fan Kristinsd\u00f3ttir was founded in 2015 in collaboration with Elfa\u00b4s collegues Gu\u00f0bj\u00f6rg Hl\u00edn Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir and Laufey Jensd\u00f3ttir. The ensemble mainly consists of Icelandic musicians who all share a passion for historically informed performance of Renaissance and Baroque music and seek to bring the music from this period to a wide audience in Iceland and abroad.<\/div>\n
Since its founding the group has held numerous concerts in Iceland with great success. Most of Br\u00e1k\u2019s performances have been recorded and broadcast by the Icelandic National Radio (R\u00daV) and few recordings are now available online. Barokkbandi\u00f0 Br\u00e1k frequently collaborates with renowned singers, dancers and instrumentalists from all over Europe giving each individual project its own unique sound and concept.<\/div>\n
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Barokkbandi\u00f0 Br\u00e1k won Performance of the year award at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2020 for their concert Br\u00e1k & Bach at Harpa Concert Hall. The band has received numerous award nominations and great reviews since its founding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

*<\/strong> Icelandic violinist Elfa R\u00fan Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> first came to international prominence in 2006, when she won the Grand Prize, Audience Prize and prize for the youngest finalist in the International Bach Competition in Leipzig. Equally comfortable on modern and baroque violin, she divides her time between solo engagements, chamber music and leading larger ensembles.\u00a0Her varied engagements for the season 21\/22 include several staged concerts at venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Schwetzinger Festspiele, collaborating with Nico and the Navigators and with director Dan Tanson. She returns as guest concertmaster of Akademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik Berlin, plays with ensemble like Il Pomo d\u2019Oro, and directs her own Baroque ensemble in Iceland, Barokkbandi\u00f0 Br\u00e1k, which she founded in 2015 and leads in several concerts every year, as well as inviting guest artists to enrich the small but steadily growing early music scene in Iceland.<\/div>\n
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* Benedikt Kristj\u00e1nsson<\/strong> was born in in H\u00fasav\u00edk, Iceland. He started singing lessons at age of 16 under the tutelage of his mother, Margr\u00e9t B\u00f3asd\u00f3ttir, at the Reykjavik Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts in Iceland. Benedikt graduated from the Reykjav\u00edk Conservatory of Music in 2007. He studied with Professor Scot Weir at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik \u201cHanns Eisler\u201d Berlin, and graduated with honors. He has participated in Masterclasses in Europe by renowned Singers such as Christa Ludwig, Peter Schreier, Elly Ameling, Robert Holl, Thomas Quasthoff, Andreas Schmidt and also the Lied-Pianist Helmut Deutsch. Benedikt won the 1st Prize of the International Bach Vocal Competition in Greifswald in 2011, and was also awarded the Audience Award. He was the Winner of the Audience Award in the International Bach Competition in Leipzig 2012. \u200b In 2019 he received the OPUS Klassik award in the category \u201cInnovative Concert\u201d, with a version of the St.John Passion by Bach, arranged for Tenor, harpsichord and diverse Percussion instruments.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund \u2014 a state special-purpose fund \u2014 within the \u201cMusic\u201d programme implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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