A fund to enhance the town's musical life
Grants from the Fund of Friðrik and Guðlaug. The board of the Fund of Friðrik Bjarnason and Guðlaug Pétursdóttir is inviting applications for grants to promote the musical life in Hafnarfjörður.
The Fund of Friðrik Bjarnason and Guðlaug Pétursdóttir
Stjórn sjóðs Friðriks Bjarnasonar og Guðlaugar Pétursdóttur auglýsir eftir umsóknum um styrki úr sjóðnum. Hlutverk sjóðsins er að efla tónlistarlíf í Hafnarfirði, þá einkum til eflingar sönglífs í bænum, og styrkja hafnfirska nemendur til framhaldsnáms í tónlist og fræðimenn í tónlist. Umsóknarfrestur er til 1. nóvember 2023.
A fund to enhance the musical life in Hafnarfjörður
In a will from 1960, the couple Friðrik Bjarnason and Guðlaug Pétursdóttir bequeathed a large part of their assets to the City of Hafnarfjörður and stipulated that books and items should be preserved in the library and that a fund should be established to “to promote musical life in Hafnarfjörður in whatever way is considered best at the time, though particularly to support choral singing in the town“, and „to support students in musical studies and music scholars“. The awards are made on Friðrik's birthday, 27 November.
The board of the fund consists of:
- Andrés Þór Gunnlaugsson
- Helga Loftsdóttir
- Ingibjörg Þorsteinsdóttir
Application is made on Our pages on hafnarfjordur.is. The applicant must provide a detailed description of their studies or proposed project. Further information can be obtained by sending an email to: menning@hafnarfjordur.is
You can learn about Friðrik and Guðlaug on Icelandic to English