Jóna G. Kolbrúnardóttir

A soprano who took a bachelor's degree at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna in 2018 and a master's with distinction from the Royal Danish Opera Academy in 2021, studying there with Helene Gjerris and Susanna Eken. She has sung two roles for the Icelandic Opera, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Anna in Daníel Bjarnason's Brothers in 2022, and she made her debut at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen in 2020 as Papagena in Barrie Kosky's production of The Magic Flute. With the Iceland Symphony she has sung the New Year concerts, Klassíkin okkar, and the release concert for A Prayer to the Dynamo, where she gave Jóhann Jóhannsson's Odi et Amo. She is a founder of Kammeróperan, a company set up to make room for smaller opera productions, and has sung Despina in its Così fan tutte. She gives song recitals often, and Lieder is the part of the repertoire she works at hardest.