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Icelandic Violinist Hlif Sigurjonsdottir in Concert at Merkin Concert Hall
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Internationally-renowned Icelandic violin virtuoso Hlif Sigurjonsdottir will be in concert on Monday, January 11, 2010 – 8:00 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, Goodman House, 129 West 67th Street in Manhattan.
The evening's repertoire will include: J.S. Bach’s solo violin Sonata No. 1 in g minor, BWV 1001 and Partitas No. 2 in d minor, BWV 1004 and No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006.
She will also present contemporary Icelandic composer Jonas Tomasson’s Wintertrees for violin solo, written for and dedicated to Hlif Sigurjonsdottir. More about the composer at http://english.jonastomasson.com/.
Tickets for the January 11 concert are $25 general admission and can be purchased by calling Merkin Hall box office at 212-501-3330 or by visiting http://kaufman-center.org/merkin-concert-hall/upcoming-events.
After her most recent performance in the U.S., Washington Post music critic Cecelia Porter wrote, "Hlif Sigurjonsdottir plays with a great purity of tone which she can tailor to the historical and individual style of the pieces she performs. Her bowing is always flexible and accurate, and her sense of pitch is precise. She is an excellent representative of music in a very musically intense nation".
Hlif Sigurjonsdottir studied violin at the Universities of Indiana and Toronto and at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Later she took private lessons with the renowned violinist and teacher Gerald Beal in New York. During her studies she was fortunate enough to work with many of the leading musicians of the twentieth century such as William Primrose, Zoltan Szekely, Gyorgy Sebok, Ruggiero Ricci and Igor Oistrakh.
Sigurjonsdottir has performed numerous concerts as a soloist and with various ensembles and symphony orchestras, at such venues as New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and in Washington D.C. as a part of the Embassy Series. She has premiered a number of works, some of which were dedicated to her, and is much sought after as a teacher and gives private lessons in Iceland, Denmark and New York.
Her CD of Bartok´s 44 Duos (with violinist Hjorleifur Valsson) has received excellent reviews from several international publications. A double CD of all the J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin was released in Fall 2008. Her website is at http://www.hlifsigurjons.is/index-e.htm.
For photos of Hlif Sigurjonsdottir, please click on the Curriculum vitae page of http://www.hlifsigurjons.is/index-e.htm. For other press inquiries, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net
Internationally-renowned Icelandic violin virtuoso Hlif Sigurjonsdottir will be in concert on Monday, January 11, 2010 – 8:00 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, Goodman House, 129 West 67th Street in Manhattan.
The evening's repertoire will include: J.S. Bach’s solo violin Sonata No. 1 in g minor, BWV 1001 and Partitas No. 2 in d minor, BWV 1004 and No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006.
She will also present contemporary Icelandic composer Jonas Tomasson’s Wintertrees for violin solo, written for and dedicated to Hlif Sigurjonsdottir. More about the composer at http://english.jonastomasson.com/.
Tickets for the January 11 concert are $25 general admission and can be purchased by calling Merkin Hall box office at 212-501-3330 or by visiting http://kaufman-center.org/merkin-concert-hall/upcoming-events.
After her most recent performance in the U.S., Washington Post music critic Cecelia Porter wrote, "Hlif Sigurjonsdottir plays with a great purity of tone which she can tailor to the historical and individual style of the pieces she performs. Her bowing is always flexible and accurate, and her sense of pitch is precise. She is an excellent representative of music in a very musically intense nation".
Hlif Sigurjonsdottir studied violin at the Universities of Indiana and Toronto and at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Later she took private lessons with the renowned violinist and teacher Gerald Beal in New York. During her studies she was fortunate enough to work with many of the leading musicians of the twentieth century such as William Primrose, Zoltan Szekely, Gyorgy Sebok, Ruggiero Ricci and Igor Oistrakh.
Sigurjonsdottir has performed numerous concerts as a soloist and with various ensembles and symphony orchestras, at such venues as New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and in Washington D.C. as a part of the Embassy Series. She has premiered a number of works, some of which were dedicated to her, and is much sought after as a teacher and gives private lessons in Iceland, Denmark and New York.
Her CD of Bartok´s 44 Duos (with violinist Hjorleifur Valsson) has received excellent reviews from several international publications. A double CD of all the J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin was released in Fall 2008. Her website is at http://www.hlifsigurjons.is/index-e.htm.
For photos of Hlif Sigurjonsdottir, please click on the Curriculum vitae page of http://www.hlifsigurjons.is/index-e.htm. For other press inquiries, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.
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