Sunday, 23rd March at 8 p.m. Concert at Hafnarborg Bjargar Brynjarsdottir, flautist and Ingibjorg Elsa Turchi, a bass player and composer. New works, the result of their fruitful collaboration, will be performed. The concert is part of Hafnarborg's contemporary music series, Hljóðönum. The title of the concert, „Blöndun/Fusione“, is taken from a solo piece for bass flute which Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi wrote especially for Björg Brjánsdóttir at the time, marking the beginning of their collaboration. The title also bears strong witness to the collaboration, as both of their musical backgrounds cover a wide area of soundarts. They have worked together on new works in recent semesters, which will be premiered by the composers at the concert, alongside this inaugural piece for their collaboration.

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.

Hljóðön, Hafnarborg's contemporary music concert series, is dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, where the unique imagination and artistic struggle of composers lead audiences into previously uncharted territory. The concert series has been part of Hafnarborg's programme since 2013.

Björg Brjánsdóttir, a flautist and composer, works with various groups across musical genres as well as composing her own music, and in recent years she has focused on collaborating with various composers and performing new solo works for the transverse flute. Björg's first album, Growl Power, was released in January 2024 with four solo works for flute by Bára Gísladóttir, and a second album is forthcoming with works by six different composers. Björg was nominated for Performer of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2022 and has appeared as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Elju Chamber Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Flute Choir, among others. She is a flautist in the Caput music ensemble and has undertaken numerous orchestral projects, mainly in Germany, Norway and Iceland. Björg is a member of the flute septet viibru, which has been working with Björk Guðmundsdóttir since 2016 and travels the world with her to perform her sound-visual show, Cornucopia. Björg graduated from the soloist programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music in the spring of 2017 and has also studied flute at the Hanover University of Music, the Munich University of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi, a bass player and composer, has been highly visible in the Icelandic music scene in recent years and has composed works for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Reykjavík Big Band, as well as for smaller ensembles. In 2017, Ingibjörg released the EP Wood/Work where the electric bass was in the lead role, and in July 2020, Ingibjorg's first full-length album was released., Moths. The album won Album of the Year in the Jazz category at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2021 and was nominated for the Hyundai Nordic Music Prize the same year. In 2023, her second full-length album, Stropha, was released, which received, among other things, 4 stars from The source, was on most of the 2023 year-end lists and received a nomination at the Icelandic Music Awards in the category of Producer of the Year. As a performer, Ingibjörg has appeared with many of the nation's most beloved artists, such as Emilíana Torrini, Bubbi Morthens, Stuðmenn and Teitur Magnússon, both in concerts and recordings, and has taken part in a work by Ragnar Kjartansson, Woman in E minor, at the Reykjavík Art Museum. Ingibjörg has also played bass in bands at the National Theatre and the City Theatre, and has been in the house band for the Idol Star Search for the past two years. Ingibjörg studied electric bass at the FÍH School of Music, completed a BA in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where she also studied rhythmic pedagogy. She also holds BA degrees in Latin and Ancient Greek from the University of Iceland. Ingibjörg is a co-founder of Stelpur rokka! in Iceland and has taught and worked on various projects there since its inception.