Tuesday, 3 November at 12 We welcome you to the next lunchtime concert at Hafnarborg, where... Björk Níelsdóttir guest Antonia Hevesi, pianist and artistic director of the concert series. The programme will feature arias from operas and operettas by Mozart, Puccini, Massenet and Herbert, and the concert is this time entitled „Many Kinds of Love“.

Björk Níelsdóttir, soprano, studied classical singing at the Music School in Hafnarfjörður with Dr. Thóra Guðmundsdóttir and later at the Amsterdam Conservatory, from where she graduated with a master's degree in 2015 with the highest distinction and also received a special award for artistic creation. Björk has taken part in the premiere of numerous operas, plays and works in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Iceland. She has also performed as both a singer and a trumpeter on tour with Björk and Florence and the Machine.

Björk is a member of the Kaja Draksler Oktett, Dúplum dúó, Gadus Morhua, Cauda Collective and the Stirni Ensemble. In 2020, she released the album Jumper and parka with Gadus Morhua and the EP „Flowers of Evil“ with Dúplum dúói. In 2023, the poetry collection was then released. Everything is awful performed by the Dúplum dúó. Throughout her career, Björk has received numerous awards and nominations. She was named the Most Promising Newcomer at the 2018 Icelandic Music Awards and was nominated for Singer of the Year at the Grímur Awards in 2019 and 2023. as well as receiving a nomination for Singer of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2021. In 2026, she won the Gríma Award for Singer of the Year.

Antonia Hevesi, a pianist, has been the artistic director of the lunchtime concerts at Hafnarborg since their inception, and they have been a regular feature of the museum's programme since 2003. There, Antonía has been joined by many of the country's leading singers, with the aim of the concerts being to give visitors the opportunity to enjoy live music at their leisure. The lunchtime concerts are usually held on the first Tuesday of each month during the winter season.

The concert starts promptly at 12 noon and lasts for about half an hour. The venue opens at 11:30 am and the concert is open to all, subject to capacity. Admission is free.

Click here to familiarise yourself with the autumn term 2026 concert programme and see what's coming up at Hafnarborg.