Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Sigrún.

Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir (born 13 January 1967) is an Icelandic violinist. She is concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and has performed widely as soloist and chamber musician, both in Iceland and abroad.

Career

Sigrún began her violin studies at age 5 with Gígja Jóhannsdóttir, and later studied with Guðný Guðmundsdóttir at the Reykjavík College of Music, completing a soloist diploma in 1984. In 1988 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where Jamie Laredo was her teacher.[1] She was a founding member of the Miami String Quartet from 1988–1990, and has frequently appeared as soloist at international festivals, including a performance of Leifur Þórarinsson's Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow in 1992.[2] She was a guest concertmaster at the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra in Copenhagen in 2012–2013.[1] In 1998, Sigrún was appointed First Concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

Sigrún has appeared frequently as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and has performed all the major violin concertos with the orchestra. In 2015, a double CD was released with live recordings of her performances of concertos by Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Jean Sibelius, and Antonín Dvorák. She has also premiered new concertos that have been written especially for her, such as Haukur Tómasson's Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra in 1997,[3] and the Violin Concerto by Áskell Másson in 2006.[4] Her international appearances with the orchestra include Nottingham Royal Concert Hall[5] and Usher Hall,[6] both in 2023.

Sigrún has also performed widely as a chamber musician. In 2015, in collaboration with the pianist Gerrit Schuil, she performed all the violin sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven at the Reykjavík Arts Festival.[7]

Prizes

Sigrún won second prize in the International Leopold Mozart Competition in 1987 (the first prize went to Isabelle Faust), third prize in the Sibelius Competition in 1990, and second prize in the Carl Flesch Competition in 1992. That same year, she won the Brøste Optimism Prize.[1] In 1998, she was made a Commander of the Order of the Falcon, for her contribution to music in Iceland.[8]

Recordings

  • Cantabile. With Selma Guðmundsdóttir, piano. Steinar, 1991.
  • Ljúflingslög. With Selma Guðmundsdóttir, piano. Steinar, 1992.
  • Árni Björnsson: Romances op. 6 and 14. On Icelandic Orchestral Music: Iceland Symphony Orchestra, cond. Petri Sakari. Chandos, 1993.
  • Leifur Þórarinsson: Violin Concerto. Iceland Symphony Orchestra, cond. Paul Schuyler Phillips. Iceland Music Information Center, 2000.
  • Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time. With Einar Jóhannesson, Richard Talkowski, Folke Gräsbeck. ÓMI, 2001.
  • Violin Concertos. With Iceland Symphony Orchestra, various conductors. Smekkleysa, 2015.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hljóðfæraleikarar: Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir". Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (in Icelandic). 30 October 2025. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Íslensk list í Skotlandi". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 5 June 1992. p. 18. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Einleikshlutverkið í forgrunni". Morgunblaðið (timarit.is). 10 May 1998. p. 21. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir leikur nýjan fiðlukonsert eftir Áskel Másson". Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands (in Icelandic). 6 June 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  5. ^ "A World-class Orchestra". Classical Music Daily. May 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  6. ^ Hurley, Donal (29 April 2023). "Iceland Symphony Orchestra". Edinburgh Music Review. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
  7. ^ Bergþóra Jónsdóttir (14 May 2005). "Beethoven er vinur minn". Lesbók Morgunblaðsins (in Icelandic). p. 7. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
  8. ^ "Orðuhafaskrá (search term: Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir)". Forseti.is (in Icelandic). 30 October 2025. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
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