Jón Arnar Einarsson

Principal trombone of the Iceland Symphony. He began his training at seven in a brass band in a suburb of Oslo, moved to Iceland and went on studying the trombone with Sigurður Þorbergsson in Skólahljómsveit Grafarvogs, the Grafarvogur school band. He finished at Tónlistarskóli FÍH in 2017 with the same teacher, and went from there to the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he studied with Jonas Bylund and Sverre Riise. In Norway he played with the Oslo Philharmonic and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra among others. He won Ungir einleikarar, the young soloists' competition, in 2020 and played as a soloist with the Iceland Symphony afterwards. His master's degree came in 2023, and he joined the orchestra that same autumn, on a permanent contract since 2024.