Ragnheiður Ingunn Jóhannsdóttir

A singer and conductor who took a master's degree in singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2023, graduated from the Malko conducting academy in Copenhagen in 2024, conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and finished her conducting studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo in the spring of 2026. She sings and conducts at the same time, and for Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire at Reykjavík Opera Days in 2024 she was nominated as both singer of the year and performer of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards of 2025. In 2023 the same awards named her brightest hope. She plays the violin regularly in the Iceland Symphony and has conducted it in recordings, at lunchtime concerts and at children's concerts. She conducts the Nordic Opera Choir, which gives concerts across the Nordic countries.