With the rising sun

On Tuesday, 7th April at 12 noon, the bass singer and Hafnarfjörður native, Sigurður Skagfjörð Steingrímsson, will perform at a lunchtime concert in Hafnarborg, accompanied by pianist Antónia Hevesi.

The concert entitled With the rising sun Sigurður will perform Icelandic songs by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns and Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, but also Old Man River from the musical Showboat and As a little boy, aria from the opera The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai. These are the penultimate lunchtime concerts of the season, but in May the soprano Sigrún Pálmadóttir will perform an Italian programme. Earlier in the concert season, Elmar Gilbertsson, Hlín Pétursdóttir, Kristján Jóhannsson, Hanna Þóra Guðbrandsdóttir and Viðar Gunnarsson have performed.

Sigurður Skagfjörð studied singing at the Reykjavík School of Singing, where he was taught by, among others, Mór Magnússon, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Guðmundur Jónsson and Katrín Sigurðardóttir. Sigurður has performed in concerts at home and abroad, and has sung with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera. There he has sung the roles of Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, the Bonze in Madama Butterfly, and Frank, the prison governor, in The Bat. With the Symphony Orchestra, Sigurður sang the role of Lodovico in Otello and the part of Jesus in the St John Passion, staged at Langholtskirkja. In 1997 and 1998, Sigurður studied singing with Helene Karusso in Vienna.

Pianist Antonía Hevesi has been the artistic director of the lunchtime concerts at Hafnarborg from the very beginning, and has chosen many of the country's leading singers to perform with her.
 
During the spring term 2015, Hafnarborg's lunchtime concerts will be held on the last Tuesday of the month. The concerts begin at 12 noon and last for about half an hour; they are open to all, subject to available seating. The venue opens at 11.30 a.m.