Quasi improvvisato?

Cimbalom and clarinet concerts of contemporary music written by czech, icelandic and hungarian composers. Part of the concert was also the world premiere of one piece for cimbalom and clarinet by icelandic composer Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir.

Concerts in the Czech republic: 9th – 14th May 2017

Musicians:

Auður Edda Erlendsdóttir, Iceland, clarinet

Auður Edda Erlendsdóttir was born in 1994. She started her clarinet studies at seven years of age in her hometown‘s music school. There she played both jazz and folk music but turned to classical music in 2011. She studied with Freyja Gunnlaugsdóttir at the Reykjavik College of Music and graduated in 2014. Since then she has studied at the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy in Budapest with Szatmári Zsolt. She plays regularly with the Academy‘s Orchestra as well as Icelandic Youth Orchestras. Since 2016 she holds a substitute position at the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and made her debut as a soloist in their „Young Soloist Program“ in January 2017, playing the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto.