Í tunglsljósi á ís: New Year with the North Iceland Symphony Orchestra

The Akureyri music school, which is housed in Hof, closes its eightieth anniversary year in January 2027 with a New Year concert in Hamraborg, given with the North Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Icelandic songs and rímnadansar, dances built on the tunes of rímur, the old sung epics, sit beside Viennese waltzes, in music by Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Ingibjörg Þorbergs, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson and Johann Strauss II among others. The soloists are the Akureyri-born tenor Kristján Jóhannsson and Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, and students of the school perform alongside the orchestra.