Coffee+Music

Seigla Festival features a coffee time recital in Hörpuhorn which highlights three composers from different eras.

A contemporary composer whose work draws on a range of musical genres from classical to folk and pop, Caroline Shaw’s Limestone & Felt for viola and cello highlights Shaw's unique approach to composition. The felt and the limestone may represent two opposing ways we experience history and design our own present. The music clearly depicts these contrasts using incredibly wide-ranging techniques.

The program then spotlights Clara Schumann, a prominent composer and pianist of the Romantic era, and owner of the face on Seigla Festival’s poster this year. Two of her most important pieces Three Romances for piano, Op. 21, and for violin and piano, Op. 22, reveal Clara’s phenomenal composition techniques and musicality. The former is an incredibly delicate and expressive work and the latter, arranged for the cello by Hjörtur himself, brings out the full range of the instrument's expressive possibilities. Hjörtur and Erna Vala will then perform Jórunn Viðar's Variations on an Icelandic folk song for cello and piano, an especially enjoyable, distinctively Icelandic and a beautiful piece, but rarely performed in public.

Admission is free of charge but there may be a coffee cart on site, and we highly recommend enjoying this recital with a coffee, and/or other drinks in hand.

Anna Elísabet Sigurðardóttir

Violist

Hjörtur Páll Eggertsson

Cellist and Conductor

Erna Vala

Pianist