SOLO PIANO RECITAL BY
Tinna
Þorsteinsdóttir (ICELAND)
Jón Leifs (1899 – 1968, Iceland):
Four
Pieces, Op. 2, for solo piano (1921) *
I. Valse lento
II. Icelandic Prelude
III. Icelandic Ballade
IV. Icelandic Scherzo
Magnús
Blöndal Jóhannsson (1925 – 2005, Iceland):
Sonorities III for piano and electronics
(1972) *
Karólína Eiríksdóttir (b. 1951, Iceland):
Partita
for solo piano (2005) *
[dedicated
to Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir]
I
II
III
Interlude
Prelude
Steingrímur Rohloff
(b. 1971, Germany/Iceland):
Ikarus for piano and electronics (2003) *
[written
for Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir]
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir (b. 1977, Iceland):
Scape for solo piano (2011) *
[written
for Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir]
Hjálmar H.
Ragnarsson
(b. 1952, Iceland):
new
work (2016) **
[written
for Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir]
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*
Bulgarian premiere
**
World premiere
* * *
Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (Thorsteinsdóttir) studied in Hannover and Münster in Germany before taking on further studies at the
New England Conservatory of Music in Boston
with Stephen Drury. She has participated in several courses and had private
lessons with pianists such as Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Peter Hill, Håkon Austbø
and Pierre Réach. She received a Fulbright scholarship and the Thor Thors grant
from the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Tinna
Þorsteinsdóttir has broad experience
with new music and has premiered 70 piano works written especially for her in
the last decade. She works on a regular basis with many Icelandic composers, is
active in the Icelandic experimental music scene and has worked with composers
such as Helmut Lachenmann, Morton Subotnick, Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier.
Educated
as a classical pianist she plays all the different styles of the piano
repertoire, although 21st century music is her main passion. Prepared piano,
electronics, toy piano and theatre pieces often show up in her programmes. In
recent years she has been active as a performance artist, making soundscapes
and installations. She is also an active improviser.
Her first solo CD Granit Games with Icelandic piano music
was released in 2007 with Bad Taste
Records.
Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir has given solo recitals at the Bergen
International Festival in Norway in the Young
Platform series at the Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen, Reykjavík Arts
Festival, Autunno Musicale Music Festival
in Capua (Italy), Nordischer Klang Festival
in Greifswald (Germany), Foundling Museum in London, The Chinese University in
Hong Kong, GL Strand Museum in Copenhagen, Summit
Club in Beijing and the Nordic Embassies in Berlin. Other performances
include solo performances at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, where she
performed on the special Iceland Day at the official opening ceremony at Expo
Centre, hosted by the President of Iceland and again at the Icelandic Pavilion,
the Messiaen Festival in Stavanger (Norway), in Portugal, Austria, Boston and
Paris and a duo performance at the Bang
on a Can Marathon in San Francisco.
In 2013 she was awarded
the Culture Prize for music of the Dagblaðið
Vísir newspaper (Iceland).
Most recently she created
the large-scale performance piece Bylta,
with glass blowing and soundscape, with visual artist Alli Hoag, which was
premiered at Corning Museum of Glass, NY in 2015. She also plays one of the
main roles in the new opera UR_ by
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, which had its premiere in Theater Trier, Germany 2015.