Biography
Icelandic soprano, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, recieved her Master‘s Degree in Opera Performance at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, summa cum laude in Austria, where she studied with Professor Michèle Crider, Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler. She received her Bachelors Degree, summa cum laude, from the Universität Mozarteum in 2019. Prior to moving to Salzburg, Bryndís spent one year at the Iceland University of the Arts, where she worked with Thora Einarsdóttir, Kristinn Sigmundsson and Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir.Bryndís is the recipient of several prizes. In 2021 Bryndís won the first prize in the Riccardo Zandonai competition in Garda, Italy and Danubia Talents Liszt Inernational Online Music Competition.She was the winner of the 2018 Young Soloists Competition in Iceland and the winner of the 2018 Dušek competition.
Bryndís' operatic credits include Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d‘Hoffmann, Servilia in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Mrs. Julian in Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and the Queen of the Night in Mozart‘s Die Zauberflöte at the Berlin Opera Academy, conducted by Tom Seligman and directed by Katrin Hilbe. She also performed Queen of the Night in Reaktorhalle in Munich in 2021 where she was mentioned in the Süddeutsche Zeitung by Klaus Kalchschmid: ,,[...] muss man sich nicht nur vor den kristallinen Spitzentönen der isländischen Eis-Königin Bryndís Guðjónsdottir und ihren Drei Damen auf dem Hoverboard in Acht nehmen."
Her other operatic roles include Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Oscar in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Belinda in Purcell‘s Dido and Aeneas and Venus in John Blow's Venus and Adonis. In April 2020, Bryndís participated in The Icelandic Opera’s digital concert series, “Aria of the Day”, which aimed to bring opera to Icelanders during the COVID-19 crisis.
Bryndís will sing the Queen of the Night/Die Zauberflöte with The Iceland Symphony Orchestra in February 2023.
In addition to opera, Bryndís has been heard as soloist in various concert performances. She sang Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Vivaldi's Nulla In Mundo RV 630 in June in three concerts in Lithuania under the baton of Christian Frattima. She sang the soprano solo in Orff's Carmina Burana in Liederhalle in Stuttgart in April 2022 under the baton of Heiko Mathias Förster with the Prague Royal Philharmonic and in Norðurljós in Harpa Concert Hall in May under the baton of Fjóla Kristín Nikulásdóttir.
She sang in December 2021 as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony Christmas Family Concert under the baton of Eva Ollikainen. in 2019 she sang the Soprano Solo in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Harpa Concert Hall in Iceland with conductor Daniel Raiskin and the Icelandic Youth Orchestra. In 2018, Bryndís performed as a featured soloist with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Raiskin, at Harpa Concert Hall. Additionally, she performed Berio’s song cycle, Folk Songs, under the baton of Michaelangelo Galeati at the Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, and at the Salurinn Concert Hall in Kópavogur, Iceland. In 2018 she sang in Gasteig in Munich with the Salzburg Orchester Solisten, conducted by Hansjörg Albrecht and she performed in the Icelandic Opera‘s Lunchtime Concert Series, together with soprano, Heiðdís Hanna Sigurðardóttir.
She has participated in various Masterclasses and training programs such as the Berlin Opera Academy, Operalab, Eva Lind Musikakademie Tirol, Austrian Masterclasses, Northsea Vocal Academy and Operaworkshop Garðabær.
Bryndís is a recipient of the Söngmenntasjóður Marínós Péturssonar scholarship, the Halldór Hansen scholarship, the Ingjaldssjóður scholarship, Rotary scholarship from Iceland, Gianna Szel scholarship in Austria, and the Richard Wagner Scholarship.
Artist Website
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Repertoire
Repertoire Opera
| Bernstein | Candide | Cunegonde |
| J.Blow | Venus and Adonis | Venus |
| Britten | Owen Wingrave | Mrs. Julian |
| Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel | Sandmännchen |
| Taumännchen | ||
| Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Konstanze |
| Die Zauberflöte | Königin der Nacht | |
| La clemenza di Tito | Servilia | |
| Offenbach | Les contes d´Hoffmann | Giulietta (Version Koloratura) |
| Olympia | ||
| Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Belinda |
| Salieri | Prima la musica poi le parole | Tonina |
| Verdi | Rigoletto | Gilda |
| Un ballo in maschera | Oscar | |
| Wagner | Siegfried | Waldvogel |
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