Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir

An Icelandic pianist, born in Akureyri on 21 May 1959. She began the piano with Ragnar H. Ragnar in Ísafjörður and continued her studies at the music schools in Akureyri and Reykjavík, and took her further training with Nancy Weems at the University of Houston in Texas; her other teachers included Philip Jenkins and Halldór Haraldsson. Sólveig Anna has spent most of her career teaching the piano and accompanying her pupils, and she is now the deputy principal of the Garðabær School of Music. Alongside her teaching she has been active as a performer, giving recitals in Iceland and abroad as an accompanist for singers and choirs, playing chamber music of many kinds and taking part in performances with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Opera and the North Iceland Symphony Orchestra.