Sunday, 8th October at 8 p.m. Concert at Hafnarborg Berglindar Maríu Tómasdóttur, flautist, and Júlia Mogensen, cellist, but the concert is part of the contemporary music series Hljóðönum. The title of the concert, Memory, is taken from a new work by Berglind María which will be premiered at the concert. The work revolves around the relationship between time and memory – how memory attempts to preserve time. Then, Júlía Mogensen will premiere her own work, Conversation, which was written especially for the concert for the electro-acoustic string instrument, the dorophone. The instrument that Júlía will be playing at the concert is owned by the Music Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts and was built with the support of the Design Fund in 2022.

Tickets are on sale at Hafnarborg: the general admission price is 2,500 króna, and the price for senior citizens and students is 1,500 króna.

Soundtrack, Hafnarborg's contemporary music concert series, is particularly dedicated to 20th and 21st-century music, where the unique imagination and artistic struggle of composers lead audiences into previously uncharted territory. The concert series has been part of the Hafnarborg programme since 2013. The concerts are supported by the Music Fund.

Berglind María Tómasdóttir is a flautist and composer who works across media. In her work, she seeks to explore images and archetypes, as well as music as a social phenomenon. As a flautist, Berglind has performed at festivals throughout the United States and Iceland. She has also recorded on numerous recordings, including as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy. Berglind's works have been commissioned and performed by, among others, The National Flute Association, the Nordic Music Days, the Dark Music Days and the Reykjavík Arts Festival. Berglind studied flute at the Reykjavík Music School and the Royal Danish Conservatory, and completed her doctorate in the performance of contemporary music at the University of California, San Diego in 2013. Berglind is a professor at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Júlía Mogensen is a classically trained cellist and a regular performer of new, experimental music. She is interested in exploring sound as a medium for possible transformations. She has collaborated with a wide range of artists in performance, recording, and as a co-composer on diverse projects both at home and abroad. From 2019-2020, she studied Fine Art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where she researched the multifaceted relationship between the performer, the audience, and the instrument through various media. Júlía studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and undertook postgraduate studies in London at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and later in Berlin. She was a member of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera from 2013-2019.

DOROPHONE is an electro-acoustic stringed instrument that utilises sound feedback (e.g. feedback) to produce the sound of the strings, but its timbre can be said to lie between that of an organ pipe, an electric guitar and a plucked string instrument. The Dórofon is the brainchild of Halldór Úlfarsson and has been in development for almost twenty years. The Dórofon has been featured in numerous design and art exhibitions across Europe. Their profile has also risen significantly in recent times due to the success of Hildur Guðnadóttir, who has used the instrument in her musical compositions, including in many interesting collaborations, such as recordings with the bands Sunn 0))) and The Knife. The instrument to be used at the Hljóðana concerts in autumn 2023 is owned by the Music Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where it is used for teaching.