Karlakórinn Fóstbræður

A male voice choir that has sung without a break since the autumn of 1916, longer than any other in Iceland. Jón Halldórsson took over a singing society that had met within KFUM, the Icelandic YMCA, since 1911, and the choir carried that society's name until the end of 1936, when it became Fóstbræður. It first sang with the Iceland Symphony in the National Theatre's Rigoletto in 1951. The works it has performed with the orchestra since include Verdi's Il trovatore (1956), Páll Ísólfsson's cantata for the Alþingi festival (1968), Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (1971 and 2004), Jón Ásgeirsson's Þrymskviða (1975), Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, Babi Yar (1990, 2002 and 2006), Sibelius' Kullervo alongside Karlakór Reykjavíkur (2015) and Brahms' Alto Rhapsody (2016). Árni Harðarson has conducted it since 1991.