Nico Moreaux Quartet

Nicolas Moreaux : double bass
Oskar Guðjónsson : saxophones
Hilmar Jenson : guitar
Scott Mclemore : drums

The band will perfom Nico´s new original compositions, written recently as well a few standards and Jon Muli´s tunes. 

The band has his own way to approach compositions, inventing fresh new lines and beats to the tunes on the moment.  

A band of improvisers that play music with looseness and flow.

Active on the international jazz scene and icelandic resident, Nico had played and recorded with famous names like Chris Cheek, Tigran Hamasyan, Bill McHenry among others.

Moritz Christiansen Trio consists of saxophonist Moritz Christiansen (DE), bassist Krzysztof Maciejko (PL), and drummer Marcus Kendellen (DK/IR), who met in 2022 at the music conservatory in Aalborg. Their music is characterized by improvisation and the diverse backgrounds of the band members.

Moritz Christiansen, who currently lives in Reykjavík, composes the music and strives to merge various influences from his musical journey so far, which has taken him from Northern Germany through Northern Denmark to Iceland. The music plays with the contrast between lyrical, melodic soundscapes and energetic, improvisational dialogues and is clearly inspired by bands like Jim Black's Alas No Axis and Paul Motian Trio.

Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Harp & Arp
Katie Buckley: harp
Jesper Pedersen: synthesizers
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

Harp & Arp is one of several bands existing in the collective imagination of harpist Katie Buckley and synthesist Jesper Pedersen. Together they perform imaginary music on processed harp and synthesizer. The music of Harp & Arp is a created in the moment as a deep-felt conversation between the two performers. The outcome is on the ambient spectrum with a focus on both tonal structures as well as abstract sonic journeys and textures. Harp & Arp released the EP “The Shortest Day” in 2021 and is working on a full length album.
Harp & Arp was part of Mengi's curated program as a concert promoter for the Nordic Culture Fund’s Puls project in 2020 and has performed on Extreme Chill, Sunnuhvoll Music Festival, Nick’s Virtual Garage, Tranum Strandgård Art and Culture Center and the S27 concert series to name a few.

Friday, April 25th, 2025
Sandrayati
doors 19:30 / show 20:00

Join Sandrayati for an intimate evening sharing new and old songs

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Inviting listeners into the space between a breath and a
sound, Sandrayati's music calls us forward to a world that is
more enchanted than the one we see and more connected
than the one we feel. Raised on the islands of Java and Bali,
with Filipino/American heritage, Sandrayati was born into a
tradition of folk music and activism, her vast cultural
background draws audiences not only into herself but into
one another. She asks us to open the spaces within and
collapse the spaces between–a reminder of our shared
inheritance on a shared planet.

Hailed as a Sunday Times Breaking Act, Sandrayati has
toured with RY X and Nick Mulvey, and Ghostly Kisses in
Europe and the UK (NME) and has performed at The Great
Escape (UK), and Iceland Airwaves. Her 2023 debut album,
“Safe Ground,” produced by Ólafur Arnalds and released on
Decca Records, centres around the tension between
migration and stillness: how cultures and landscapes become
the essences and ornaments of ourselves.

With melodies midwifed from dreams into waking life, the
album blossoms with the quiet exuberance of a flower
transplanted. Sandrayati’s voice is as light and as strong as a
strand of spider silk sung by the wind. As it floats above the
delicate, tentative accompaniments, we hear her come into
being–sifting herself out from inexorable currents, matching a
quiet faith against honest uncertainty.

Traveling alongside this new self formed from fragments of
pasts and no-longer-futures is a determined call to care for
the natural world and to embrace the interconnectedness of
all existence. Throughout her work here and elsewhere, Sandrayati pays homage to those she’s known and not known who have laboured to protect both the surface and the soul of the land. She is currently recording her next album in Iceland where she is now based, that will come into the world in four waves in 2025.

Skerpla Ensemble: Greatest Hits
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

Program TBA

Founded in 2018, Skerpla is Iceland University of the Arts' Experimental Music Ensemble. Skerpla explores, creates and performs music in the expanded field. Skerpla is led by Berglind María Tómasdóttir, professor at Iceland University of the Arts and John McCowen part-time teacher at Iceland University of the Arts.

Night of Improvised Music:
Skúli Sverrisson - bass
Björg Brjánsdóttir - flutes
Stirnir Kjartansson - guitar
John McCowen - clarinets/recorders

doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr / pay what u can

Páll Ragnar Pálsson & Tui Hirv
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

Páll Ragnar og Tui ólust upp í sitthvorum heiminum, hann í íslensku rokksenunni með öllu því frelsi og leikgleði sem henni fylgdi, og hún í strang-akademísku skólakerfi Eistlands og kórmenningu. Leiðir þeirra lágu saman í tónlistarakademíunni í Tallinn og hafa síðan þá unnið saman að listsköpun, þar sem Tui hefur flutt tónverk Páls t.d með kammersveitum bæði hér og erlendis.
Þegar þau koma fram sem dúó nálgast þau tónlistina með allt öðru sniði. Þar flytja þau lög úr ýmsum áttum, hvort sem það eru þjóðlög eða gömul dægurlög, og matreiða eftir sínu eigin höfði. Ólíkur bakgrunnur þeirra og nálgun á tónlistina skapar þannig nýjan hljóðheim. Sköpunarferlinu má lýsa sem einskonar heimilislegu gramsi, lágstemmdu og leikandi, sem þau svo taka með sér á svið. Hráefnin eru einföld, gítar og rödd. En Páll Ragnar og Tui nota þau í víðu samhengi og bjóða upp á óvænta upplifun gerða af smekkvísi og næmni.
Dúettinn hefur troðið víða upp í gegnum tíðina, t.d. á Hótel Flatey, Norræna húsinu, 12 Tónum, Havarí á Karlsstöðum, Gljúfrasteini, Skálholti og við ýmsar samkomur svo sem heimsóknir eistneskra þjóðhöfðingja eða stjórmálamanna í ráðherrabústaðnum.

Síðustu misserin hafa Páll Ragnar og Tui unnið að dagskrá með lögum sem tengjast vetrartíðinni. Lögin koma úr ólíkum svæðum og tímabilum en öll frá norðurhveli jarðar. Þau eru mestmegnis skandinavísk og ensk en teygja sig líka yfir Eystrasaltið til baltnesku landanna. Öll eiga lögin það sameiginlegt að fanga þennan sérstaka árstíma og þau áhrif sem hann hefur á okkur. Segja má að Páll Ragnar og Tui séu að heimsækja fortíðina og velta því fyrir sér hvað það þýði að búa hér á hjara veraldar.
Dagskráin er öll síðan fléttuð saman með frásögn af tónlistinni, lýsingum á uppruna hennar og hvernig hún barst til eyrna Páls og Tui. Þannig gefa þau tónleikunum persónulegt yfirbragð og húmorinn er aldrei langt undan.

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3pXEHfG3BGgOiNmsKESoee...

https://www.facebook.com/pallragnarpalssoncomposer

https://www.facebook.com/tuihirvreykjavik

English:

Páll Ragnar and Tui grew up in different worlds, he in the Icelandic rock scene with all the freedom and playfulness that came with it, and she in the strict academic school system of Estonia and choral culture. Their paths crossed in Tallinn, at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since then have worked together on artistic creation, where Tui has performed Páll's compositions, mostly with chamber ensembles both here and abroad.
When they perform as a duo, they approach music in a completely different way. There they perform songs from various genres, whether they are authentic folk songs or just old popular songs, and serve them according to their own ideas on music. Their different backgrounds and approaches thus create a new sound world.

In recent seasons, Páll Ragnar and Tui have worked on a program with songs related to the winter season. The songs come from different regions and periods, but all from the northern hemisphere. They are mostly Scandinavian and English, but also stretch across the Baltic Sea to the Baltic countries. All the songs have one thing in common: capturing this special time of year and the effect it has on us. It can be said that Páll Ragnar and Tui are visiting the past and wondering what it means to live here at the edge of the world.
The entire program is then interwoven with a narrative of the music, descriptions of its origin and how it reached the ears of Páll and Tui. In this way, they give the concert a personal touch and humor is never far away.

Úlfur Hansson
Tóti Guðnason
Þorsteinn Eyfjörð
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

Úlfur: 

Úlfur Hansson is a composer, music producer, and electronic musician. He has released four solo records that feature intricate string arrangements, electronic textures, and concrete sounds. 

Úlfur’s collaborations with musicians and visual artists such as Jónsi, Hildur Guðnadottir, Dustin O'Halloran, Anna Von Hauswolff, Skúli Sverrisson, Zeena Parkins, Alex Somers, Bendik Giske, Ólafur Elíasson, Roni Horn, and Elín Hansdóttir have allowed him to create soundscapes that are both innovative and evocative.

Úlfur’s work has been commissioned by prominent musicians such as The Icelandic Symphonic Orchestra, Nordic Affect, and L'Orchestre De Radio France. 

Tóti Guðna: 

Tóti Guðnason is a composer and guitarist, known as a member of Agent Fresco and for his work in film and immersive music. After several years away from the stage, he returns for a rare performance at Mengi, his first live appearance since 2020.

In recent years, Tóti has focused on composing music for films such as Lamb (2021), Cold Copy (2023), and the Italian series The Art of Joy (2025), as well as creating a sound installation for the ABBA Voyage venue in London. This performance marks a quiet shift, an experiment in vulnerability and presence. Using guitars and electronics, he creates textured sounds in real time, inviting the audience into a space that is both personal and meditative.

Þorsteinn Eyfjörð:

Þorsteinn Eyfjörð Þórarinsson is an Icelandic artist currently living in Reykjavik, Iceland. With a starting point in sound, Þorsteinn’s work builds on its ability to engage with people through the physical and the emotional simultaneously. His work researches spatial resonance in dialogue with human and natural environments, and how sonic sensations and auditory memory can distort time.

GARGAN + Mandolin Duo
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

GARGAN

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Gargan er tilrauna-rafdúó skipað Bergþóru Kristbergsdóttur og Huldu Ragnhildi Hjálmarsdóttur. Þær sameinuðu krafta sína á veraldarvefnum fyrir rúmu ári síðan - á meðn Hulda var í skiptinámi í Finnlandi og Bergþóra að útskrifast úr Nýmiðlabraut á Íslandi. Í gegnum fjarsamskiptin varð Gargan til -  eins konar griðastaður fyrir þreytta og duglega hljóðfæraleikara og raftónlistarmenn sem spýta úr sér ýmis konar hljóðum og óhljóðum.  

Bergþóra og Hulda vinna úr hljóðupptökum úr umhverfinu, endurvinna hljóð úr klarinetti og skapa óhljóð. Þær forrita, nota hljóðgervla, heimilisáhöld og alls kyns fleira sem þeim dettur í hug. 

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Gargan is an experimental electronic duo composed of Bergþóra Kristbergsdóttir and Hulda Ragnhildur Hjálmarsdóttir. They joined forces online over a year ago – while Hulda was on an exchange program in Finland and Bergþóra was graduating from the New Media program in Iceland.

Through long-distance collaboration, Gargan was born – a kind of sanctuary for weary yet obsessed instrumentalists and electronic musicians who unleash all sorts of sounds and noises.

Bergþóra and Hulda work with field recordings, repurpose sounds from the clarinet, and create noise. They program, use synthesizers, household objects, and anything else that comes to mind.

Margrét Helga Snorradóttir og Víf Ásdísar Svansbur leika á mondolin (play the mandolin).

ICELANDIC: 

Jófríður Ákadóttir er tónskáld og tónlistarflytjandi frá Reykjavík. Hún hóf feril sinn sem meðlimur í hljómsveitunum Pascal Pinon og Samaris en starfar nú sem sólólistamaður undir nafnin JFDR. Hún hefur auk þess unnið sem kvikmyndatónskáld og gerði nýverið tónlistina fyrir heimildaþættina "Stormur" og jóladagatal RÚV um Randalín og Munda. Jófríður hefur unnið samið tónlist með ýmsum tónlistarmönnum eins og t.d. Ólafi Arnalds og Damien Rice. Nýjasta plata hennar ber heitið Museum og kom út í apríl á vegum breska útgáfufyrirtækisins Houndstooth. Tónlist Jófríðar einkennist af minimalískum útsetningum, draumkenndum hljóðheimi og ríkum laga- og textasmíðum.

ENGLISH:

JFDR is Jófríður Ákadóttir. As a 14 year old in Reykjavik, Ákadóttir began her musical career exploring the vast universe of experimental music while retaining a massive heart at her core. 

Over the past 12 years Ákadóttir has released 12 records including as a member of Pascal Pinon & Samaris collaborated with renowned artists Ólafur Arnalds and Damien Rice, scored the award-winning Icelandic film Backyard Village and garnered fans across the world – including Björk who cites Ákadóttir as an inspiration.

Following 2017’s Brazil (her first record as JFDR), Ákadóttir returned with 2020’s New Dreams “very haunting electro-pop music that’s very subtle very inward looking” (NPR Music) and “the kind of album that might give you space to reach your own small revelations” (Stereogum).

Her new album Museum is out now. In March 2024 it won Icelandic album of the year at the Iceland Music Awards

Arnljótur í Mengi Arnljótur mætir á svið í Mengi og býður upp á einstaka kvöldstund þar sem hann sýnir ólíkar hliðar – bæði í tónum og tali. Á efnisskránni er blanda af nýrri og gamalli tónlist frá tónlistarmanninum sjálfum, flautuspili, söng og trítladansi auk þess sem hinn eini sanni Trimpiltrútur gerir heiðarlega tilraun til uppistands. Það má búast við bæði hughrifum og hlátrasköllum þegar Kraftgalli leiðir áhorfendur í ferðalag sem þræðir saman tónlist, ljóðlist, spuna og húmor!

Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist based in Turku, Finland, working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, feedback, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she investigates the borderland where sounds mirror each other and communicate. She creates precise musical narratives with slowly mutating textures of detailed acoustic sound and intuitively tuned sustained tones and shapes.

Ahti's latest solo album Tender Membranes was released by Black Truffle in 2023. She has presented her music in many different contexts around Europe, in Japan and the United States, notably at The Long Now, Sonic Acts, Présences Électronique, Lampo and Edition Festival. Alongside her solo work, she is also active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti, in the artist/organizer collective Himera and in current collaborative projects with Judith Hamann, John McCowen, Manja Ristić and Mikko Kuorinki.

bbllururubbebrb [english below] KÆRU HÁTÍÐNI SÆKJENDUR Stundin er runnin upp!!! Skrifið í dagatölin ykkar!!! Hinir fyrstu Hátíðni söfnunartónleikar verða haldnir 14. mars í Mengi!!!!!! fram koma: sameheads Iðunn Einars Amor Vincit Omnia húsið opnar 19:00 og fyrsta atriði byrjar 19:30 Aðgangseyrir er 2500kr eða greiddu að getu Þessir tónleikar eru opnir öllum óháð aldri plakat gert af Sigríði Langdal Hátíðni er geimskip [english] DEAR HÁTÍÐNI GOERS The time has come!!!! Mark your calendars!!! The first Hátíðni funding concert will be held March 14th in Mengi!!!!! artists that will play: sameheads Iðunn Einars Amor Vincit Omnia Doors open 19:00 and first act goes on stage 19:30 Entry is 2500kr or pay what you can The concert is open for people of all ages poster by Sigríður Langdal Hátíðni is a spaceship

NIGHT OF IMPROVISED MUSIC:
Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi - bass
Kristín Þora - viola
Róberta Andersen - guitar
Sólrún Mjöll - drums

ARTISTS : 

kláðamaur
freyja sercombe
BULL'SEYE

curated by Yulia Vasileva

kláðamaur

Creepy crawlies, soft and sly, In the dark, they twist and lie. No more slumber, no more peace, The night's embrace will never cease. The world feels number, cold and thin, Darkness whispers from within. Eyes aglow, they hide, they creep, The secrets that the shadows keep.

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BULL'SEYE

A duet performed by two rabbits Joseph Beuys' wet dream

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freyja sercombe

Hin einstaka hljómsveit Geislar mun halda tónleika í Mengi fimmtudaginn 6. mars. Geislar eru með fangið fullt af nýrri tónlist. Önnur platan þeirra, Supernature kemur út á næstunni en þegar eru komin út þrjú lög.

„Þetta er afskaplega vandað, og erfitt að staðsetja þetta. Draumkennt og smá svona geðbilun. […] Það er jazz í þessu en líka svona Portishead. Bíómyndamúsík. […] Mjög flottar útsetningar, t.d. instrumental lagið, síðasta lagið á plötunni; Resolution in Revolution. Virkilega fallegt og draumkennt. Fögur tónlist.
Mér finnst þetta bara alveg frábær diskur. … Þetta hljómar ekki eins og neitt annað sem ég man eftir í svipinn. Ég vona að þetta sé komið til að vera, því þetta er hálfgerð súpergrúbba með öllum þessu frábæru músíköntum. En þetta er plata sem sker sig virkilega úr.“

Andrea Jónsdóttir, Plata vikunnar RUV (Um fyrri plötuna, Containing the Dark)

„One of this years best albums“ - Iceland Music Export

„Quicksilver is the kind of smooth, sophisticated and succulent Soul/Jazz pop infusion that you need musicians of true calibre to deliver. High class female vocals weave in and out of the lush chord patterns, instrumental interplay and dreamy late night vibe of the band. The playing is sublime and the melody is made all the more exotic by the extended harmonic language and light-textured buoyancy of the track. A vividly colourful kaleidoscope to brighten up your week. Absolute class.

Neil March - Fresh on the net (um eitt nýju lagana, Quicksilver)

Geislar:
Sigríður Thorlacius: Söngur
Magnús Trygvason Eliassen: Trommur
Ómar Guðjónsson: Gítar
Óskar Guðjónsson: Saxófónn
Styrmir Sigurðsson: Hljómborð
Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson: Bassi

Tónleikarnir hefjast 20:00 en húsið opnar 19:30
Verð 3500 kr
geislar.org
snorrimanagement.is

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The truly unique Icelandic band Geislar will perform at Mengi Thursday March 6th. They will be performing music from their upcoming album, Supernature as well as some from their critically acclaimed album Containing the Dark.

“Exceptionally well done but difficult to categorize, It is both dreamy and kind of crazy. […] There is jazz in there but also bit like Portishead. Film music […] the arrangements are excellent. For instance, the last song on the album, the instrumental one, Resolution in Revolution. Beautiful and dreamy, how the the piano and guitar weaves along with the strings. ... I find this album exceptionally good. It doesn’t sound like anything else out there. I hope this band is here to stay as it is kind of a supergroup with all these great musicians. But it is an album that really stands apart.”

Andrea Jónsdóttir Album of the week RUV (On Containing the Dark)

„One of this years best albums“ - Iceland Music Export

„Quicksilver is the kind of smooth, sophisticated and succulent Soul/Jazz pop infusion that you need musicians of true calibre to deliver. High class female vocals weave in and out of the lush chord patterns, instrumental interplay and dreamy late night vibe of the band. The playing is sublime and the melody is made all the more exotic by the extended harmonic language and light-textured buoyancy of the track. A vividly colourful kaleidoscope to brighten up your week. Absolute class.

Neil March - Fresh on the net (on Quicksilver, from their upcoming album, Supernature)

Geislar:
Sigríður Thorlacius: Vocals
Magnús Trygvason Eliassen: Drums
Ómar Guðjónsson: Guitar
Óskar Guðjónsson: Saxophone
Styrmir Sigurðsson: Keyboards
Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson: Bass

Doors 19:30 / Show 20:00
Price 3500 kr.
geislar.org
snorrimanagement.is

Tumi Árnason - saxophone
Birgir Steinn Theodórsson - bass
Magnús Trygvason Eliassen - drums

Friday, February 28th
Fersteinn + 1 feat. Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

Fersteinn heldur í annað sinn tónlistarpartíið Fersteinn plúseinn, þar sem einum listamanni er boðið að leika einhverja músík á undan Ferstein en jafnframt að koma fram með Ferstein. Í þetta sinnið er heiðursgesturinn enginn annar en Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir Hörpu-icon

Fersteinn celebrates Fersteinn +1 for the second time. In this music party series we invite a feature artist to go first and play something before Fersteinn enters the stage and also perform alongside the band Fersteinn on several pieces. This time around we welcome the harp icon Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir.

Fersteinn er íslensk hljómsveit sem starfrækt hefur verið frá árinu 2011 og var nokkurs konar afsprengi kammerhópsins Fengjastrúts. Hljómsveitin var sett saman til þess að sérhæfa sig í kvartettum Guðmundar Steins Gunnarssonar, móta þá og þróa og gera tilraunir til að flytja kvartettana og önnur skyld verk í hinum ýmsu ólíku samhengjum. Þannig hefur hljómsveitin komið fram á bókasöfnum, leikið fyrir börn og gamalmenni, á Sekvenses, á Ljóðahátíð ljóðfélagsins, Ljósanótt í Keflavík en einnig hefur hljómsveitin túrað í Hollandi, Belgíu, Sviss og Þýskalandi. Þá hafa tónsmiðar sem hópurinn hefur frumflutt einnig verið leikin af öðrum í borgum eins og Volgovgrad, Istanbul, Tromsö, Leicester, Oslo og víðar. Sveitin hefur sent frá sér 3 hljómplötur og eina þröngskífu en platan Lárviður var tilnefnd til Kraumsverðlauna árið 2017.

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Fersteinn is an Icelandic chamber group that was founded in 2011 and was an offshoot of Ensemble Fengjastrútur. The group specializes in the Kvartett’s of Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson and other similar repertoire. The group has performed in venues such as Wallgallery and De Player in Rotterdam, Vhleesaal in Middleburg, Bergerkirche in Dusseldorf, l’Epremere Ephemere in Brussels. In Iceland the group has performed in art openings, poetry festivals, town halls, community libraries as well as venues like Mengi. The music originally performed by Fersteinn has also traveled with other performers, such as Ensemble Adapter, Aksiom Ensemble, Ligeti Quartet and Goodiepal’s Icelandic Animated Notation Band. Fersteinn has released 3 albums and one EP and Lárviður was nominated for the Kraumur award in 2017. 

Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir lauk doktorsprófi í tónlistarrannsóknum og tónlistarflutningi frá Síbelíusar Akademíunni árið 2013. Meistara- og bakkalárprófi lauk hún frá Tónlistarháskólanum í Amsterdam og lagði einnig stund á nám í barrokkhörpuleik við Tónlistarháskólann í Haag.

Árið 2004 stofnaði Gunnhildur ásamt Matthíasi Engler slagverksleikara Kammerhópinn Adapter. Auk þess að vera hörpuleikari hópsins hefur hún ásamt Matthíasi verið listrænn stjórnandi og framkvæmdastjóri hans. Adapter hefur verið aðal starfsvettvangur hennar allar götur síðan. Með hópnum Gunnhildur frumflutt hundruði verka, skipulagt fjölda tónleika og hátíða, haldið námskeið og fyrirlestra.

Gunnhildur hefur leikið með kammerhópum á borð við Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Mosaik, Caput og Kammersveit Reykjavíkur. Að auki hefur hún leikið með Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands, Konzerthausorchester í Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsorchester í München og Lautencompagnie í Berlin.

Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir began studying the harp at age 13 with harpist Elisabet Waage in Iceland. After high-school graduation, she continued her harp studies with Brigitte Sylvestre at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and later with Sioned Williams, principal harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. She went on to complete a Bachelor's Degree with distinction and a Master of Music Degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where her teacher was the renowned harpist and pedagogue Erika Waardenburg. During her studies in Holland, Gunnhildur specialized in the performance of contemporary music but also attended classes in early harp performance at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she learned to play the Italian triple harp under the guidance of Christina Pluhar. In 2013 Gunnhildur received a Doctor of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. 

In 2004 Gunnhildur founded the Ensemble Adapter together with percussionist Matthias Engler. Apart from her engagements with Adapter Gunnhildur is a regular guest with other European contemporary ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Mosaik among others, and has appeared as a guest with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Chamber Orchestra, Caput Ensemble and the Bayerische Staatsorchester. In 2014 Gunnhildur will take over the harp lectureship at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany where she will develop and teach workshops for harpists and composers. This will be the first time since the 1960's that the harp will pay an important role at the Darmstadt summer courses.

Thursday, February 27
Skerpla Ensemble
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr

performs works by 

Jennifer Walshe, Einar Torfi Einarsson, George Lewis, Yoko Ono,  Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros and John Cage.

Founded in 2018, Skerpla is Iceland University of the Arts' Experimental Music Ensemble. Skerpla explores, creates and performs music in the expanded field. Skerpla is led by Berglind María Tómasdóttir, professor at Iceland University of the Arts and John McCowen part-time teacher at Iceland University of the Arts.

Source:: https://skerpla.lhi.is/

Skerpla er tónlistarhópur sem starfar innan Listaháskóla Íslands, stofnaður haust 2018. Skerpla rannsakar, skapar og flytur tónlist af tilraunakenndum toga með það að markmiði að víkka út hefðbundnar hugmyndir um tónlist. Berglind María Tómasdóttir, prófessor við Listaháskóla Íslands, og John McCowen, stundakennari við LHÍ leiða starfsemi Skerplu.

Andersen and the EZ listeners 

Nýr kvartett sem er skipaður Hilmari Jenssyni og Róbertu Andersen á gítara annarsvegar og Tuma Árnasyni og Sölva Kolbeinssyni á tréblásturshljóðfæri hinsvegar. Meðlimir hafa starfað saman áður í hinum ýmsu verkefnum og oftar en ekki á jaðri spuna eða jazz tónlistar. Auk þess deila þau áhuga á ómþýðri tónlist 7unda og 8unda áratug síðustu aldar sem oft er flokkuð sem "easy listening" nú eða hreinlega lyftutónlist. Á efnisskránni verða því verk eftir The Karpenters, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell og Art Garfunkel svo eitthvað sé nefnt.

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Andersen and the EZ listeners A new quartet composed of Hilmar Jensson and Róberta Andersen on guitar on the one hand and Tuma Árnason and Sölva Kolbeinson on woodwind instruments on the other. Members have worked together before in various projects and more often than not on the edge of improvisation or jazz music. In addition, they share an interest in untranslated music from the 7th and 8th decades of the last century, which is often classified as "easy listening" now or purely elevator music. The program will therefore include works by The Carpenters, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell and Art Garfunkel to name a few.

Florence Cats & Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir
Thursday, February 20th 2025
doors 19:30 / show 20:00

Florence Cats and Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir will perform a set of experimental pieces, exploring a wide range of frequencies in a discreet and delicate way. Florence plays the theremin while Lilja plays the instrument Hulda.

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Florence Cats is an artist working in the fields of music, sound, visual art and acupuncture. Her work is a needle or antenna, inspired by the vibrations of sound and light in nature, telepathy and dreams. She plays the theremin in experimental ways, interacting with her body, voice, water, radio and various tiny objects. 

Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir’s artistic practice is centred on explorations of collaborative creativity. Working with sculptural elements of sound and matter, she creates installations, audio-visual pieces, and performances. The works are actively designed to facilitate continuous processes that highlight how ideas surface from correspondences with materials, between individuals, and in context to one’s surroundings. 

Ólöf Arnalds & Skúli Sverrisson
Saturday, February 15th
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
4.000kr

Gjöfult samstarf Skúla Sverrissonar og Ólafar Arnalds spannar tvo áratugi og hefur getið af sér fjölda hljómplatna undir nöfnum þeirra beggja. Skúli og Ólöf bjóða hlustendum í Mengi upp á yndæla kvöldstund þar sem þau flytja nýtt efni auk þess að leika eldri lög sem þau eiga í fórum sínum.

The fruitful collaboration of Skúli Sverrisson and Ólöf Arnalds started in the 2000s when they worked together on the renowned Sería record by Skúli. Since then they have created many records together under both names. Skúli and Ólöf will offer the listeners in Mengi  a evening of new music along with some classics from their repertoire. 

Ólöf Arnalds is an Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist. Her most distinctive asset is, nonetheless, her voice of instantly captivating, spring water chasteness possessed of a magical, otherworldly quality that is simultaneously innocent yet ancient (“somewhere between a child and an old woman” according to no less an authority than Björk). Her work has been called "stunning" by SPIN, "bewitching" by Rolling Stone, "remarkable" by the NME, "ethereal" by Vanity Fair "otherworldly" by The New York Times, and "impossibly lovely" by Paste.

Skúli Sverrisson has built a unique career as a composer, producer and improviser with a broad spectrum of artists. As an instrumentalist he has worked with Wadada Leo Smith, Arto Lindsay, Blonde Redhead and Allan Holdsworth to name a few. Skúli was a close collaborator of Laurie Anderson for over a decade. Skúli has composed music for Víkingur Ólafsson, Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and Erna Ómarsdóttir. Skúli is known for his duo work with Ólöf Arnalds, Bára Gísladóttir and Bill Frisell. In the world of film Skúli has contributed to the scores of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Join Dagur at Mengi for a night of electronic music. Armed with his laptop and an MS-20 synthesizer, he will play an evolving mix of beats, melodies, and atmospheric sounds, a mix of already existing material and live synth programming. The evening will open with a set from Jón Múli, setting the stage with his own musical explorations. Whether you’re into experimental music or just curious, this will be a chance to experience something different in an intimate setting.