Hildigunnur Einarsdóttir

A mezzo-soprano who took her final diploma at Söngskólinn í Reykjavík with Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir and Signý Sæmundsdóttir, and studied afterwards in Germany and the Netherlands with Janet Williams and Jón Þorsteinsson. She also holds a BA in creative music communication from the Iceland University of the Arts, where she studied singing with Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrens. She sings with Schola cantorum, Cantoque Ensemble and the chorus of the Icelandic Opera, conducts the ÁR choir and, with Lilja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, the women's choir Katla, and teaches singing at Tónskóli Sigursveins D. Kristinssonar and Söngskólinn Domus Vox. She has sung the solo parts in Handel's Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus and in Bach's St Matthew Passion, St John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, and has sung with the Iceland Symphony, Barokksveitin Brák, Caput and the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra. She has given first performances of works by Hreiðar Ingi Þorsteinsson, Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir, Kolbeinn Bjarnason and Hugi Guðmundsson. In 2014 she was nominated for an Icelandic Music Award for her singing of Karl O. Runólfsson's songs with the chamber group Kúbus.