Guðný Einarsdóttir

Organist of Grafarvogskirkja, born in Reykjavík in 1978. She studied the piano from a very young age and graduated from the music education department of the Reykjavík College of Music, and she studied the organ at Tónskóli þjóðkirkjunnar, the National Church's school of music, under Marteinn H. Friðriksson. In the spring of 2006 she completed a degree in church music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where her teachers included Lasse Ewerlöf and Bine Bryndorf. Through the winter of 2006 and 2007 she was organist to the Danish congregation in Paris and studied alongside the post with Eric Lebrun and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin. She has also taken organ courses with Michael Radulescu, Hans-Ola Ericsson and Olivier Latry. While she was studying in Copenhagen she was among the founders of the chamber choir Staka and its first conductor, and she has since conducted Kordía and the choirs of Fella- og Hólakirkja, Hjallakirkja and Háteigskirkja. The choir she conducts now is the Perlukór in Háteigskirkja.