Bryndís Pálsdóttir

A violinist, born in 1963, who began the violin with Katrín Árnadóttir at Barnamúsíkskóli Reykjavíkur and took her soloist's diploma at Tónlistarskólinn í Reykjavík in the spring of 1984, where her teachers were Björn Ólafsson, Guðný Guðmundsdóttir and Mark Reedman. She went on to the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang and Zinaida Gilels and took her master's in 1988, and spent the following winter studying with Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam. She has held a permanent post in the Iceland Symphony since 1989 and taught at Tónlistarskólinn í Reykjavík for as long, and she sat on the orchestra's board from 2015 to 2019. She has played as a soloist with the orchestra and given solo recitals. With Camerarctica's string quartet she has played the quartets of Bartók and Shostakovich for the Reykjavik Chamber Music Society (Kammermúsíkklúbburinn), and with the oboe quartet Dísur she has given first performances of many works by Icelandic composers. She has also played with Kammersveit Reykjavíkur and Caput, in productions at the National Theatre and in the Icelandic Opera's orchestra.