Ólafur Elíasson

A pianist who has played Johann Sebastian Bach on the grand piano in Dómkirkjan on Tuesday evenings since 2016, right through the year. He studied with Rögnvaldur Sigurjónsson, then in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter and afterwards in England, where he took a soloist's diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1994. He has given concerts in Iceland and abroad, most often in Britain, and has recorded piano concertos by Bach and Mozart with the London Chamber Group. With the baritone Sigurður Bragason he has appeared at Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington.