Concert for the climate

The opening concert of the festival takes place in the University of Iceland and is a collaboration with the University's own Lunch Time Recital Series, Háskólatónleikar. 

All the pieces on the programme have a connection to Nature and two new pieces will be premiered. Greta's Song by Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson is a piece written to excerpts from Greta Thunberg's speeches and Amadah by Catherine Maria Stankiewicz for solo cello and a dancer.

Programme: 

Atli Heimir Sveinsson (1938-2019):

Úr Jónasarlögum: 
Úr Hulduljóðum
Dalvísa

Catherine Maria Stankiewicz (1984):

Amadah for solo cello and a dancer

J. Massenet (1842 - 1912):

Elegie for voice, cello and piano

Gísli Jóhann Grétarsson (1983):

Greta's Song

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (1965):

A New World

Entry is free.

After the concert, everyone is invited to a free climate soup in the Nordic House for as long as there's some soup in the pot!