I will be hosting a night on KEX hostel with a quartet next Tuesday.
Next Tuesday, the 26th, I will be hosting a jazz-night where I will be getting three wonderful players to join me in playing a blend of new music and standards. I will be playing Rhodes and keyboards, and then we will have Jóel Pálsson on saxophone. Straight from Berlin, we get my “frændi” Daniel Friðrik […]
A lunch-concert coming up with Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, 22nd March!
The great Icelandic jazz-singer, Kristjana Stefánsdóttir, and I will give a concert in Víðistaðakirkja, in Hafnarfjörður which is a small town near Reykjavik. We will do a blend of psalms and jazz standards together. Originally became friends back in 1997 when we studied together in Holland, and then we have played together occasionally since then. […]
What is a jazz-pianist doing conducting Oratorios?
Well, as someone that has been enamored with baroque music since childhood, I find it amazingly gratifying to be soon standing on the conductors podium with 50 people singing and 16 people in an orchestra performing Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi (RV 589) and Kleine Orgelmesse by Joseph Haydn. This idea sprung forth last spring when […]
Look for me on Safnanótt in Listasafn Sigurjóns on February 8th
In the Northern part of Reykjavik, just on the shore, there is a wonderful art museum with sculptures by Sigurjón Ólafsson. On “Safnanótt” – which is an evening where all the museums in Reykjavik are open late and people can wonder between them for free – I will be playing my music on the wonderful […]
Going to jail!
Today, Gissur Páll and I played a gig at Litla-Hraun which is the biggest jail in Iceland, housing about 90 prisoners. We played in a small indoor handball-court that smelled car wax since it is used to clean cars during the day. The piano was really crappy but that didn´t really matter because this was […]