Eva Þyri Hilmarsdóttir
pianist
After graduating from the Reykjavík College of Musicwith Diplomas in piano pedagogy and pianoperformance, Eva Þyri Hilmarsdóttir furthered her studies in Denmark at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, receiving an Advanced Soloist Diploma, and in The Royal Academy of Music in London, where she graduated from the MA Piano Accompaniment course with a Distinction and was awarded a DipRAM and the Christian Carpenter Piano Prize for an outstanding final recital.
Her teachers were Þorsteinn Gauti Sigurðsson, Halldór Haraldsson, Prof. John Damgård and Michael Dussek.
Aside from giving solo recitals, Eva Thyri takes an avid interest in chamber music and lied and has given numerous first performances of Icelandic and foreign compositions, appearing in festvals at home and abroad.She also participated in over one hundred recitals dedicated to Icelandic music in the series Pearls of Icelandic song in Harpa concert house. Eva Þyri was the co-founder and pianist of a Lieder-festival in Hannesarholt; „Ljóðið lifi“ in 2023 and 2024.
In 2017 Eva Þyri participated in The Icelandic Opera’s production of La Voix Humaine by Poulenc, and in December 2018 she and Erla Dóra Vogler mezzosoprano released a cd with works for solo voice and piano by Jórunn Viðar, in celebration of her 100th birthday. The cd was nomitated as album of the year for The Icelandic Music Awards.
A new album, "Hidden Treasures", will be released by the end og the year, where Eva Þyri and soprano Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir perform songs and lyrics by Icelandic women.
