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Hildur Guðnadóttir In Concert

Wed 26 Mar, 7:30 pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Buy Tickets

Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir curates and performs an evening of her own incomparable music for film and TV.

Icelandic composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir is one of the most exciting artists working in contemporary music today and, in a relatively short career so far, has already won an Oscar, a Bafta, a Golden Globe and two Grammys for her work in television and film.

In this concert, Guðnadóttir performs with the London Contemporary Orchestra in a specially selected programme of music from her TV and film scores, including JokerJourney’s EndA Haunting in Venice and Chernobyl, alongside music by composers who have inspired her.

Pre-concert talk: Hildur Guðnadóttir discusses her varied and award-winning career and the music being performed in the concert. Free to all concert ticket holders.

 

Programme:

Hildur Guðnadóttir 
  • Tár: Largo
  • Tár: Allegro
  • Tár: Moderato
  • Opaque (from the album ‘Without Sinking’)
  • Líður (from the album ’Saman’)
  • Chernobyl: Vichnaya Pamyat
  • Fólk faer andlit
  • A Haunting in Venice: Confessions
  • Joker: Subway/Bathroom Dance/The Kiss
  • A Haunting in Venice: Solemn Strings/Pipes/Confession
Mica Levi
  • ‘Love’ – from Under The Skin
Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
  • Tár: Ró
David Lang
  • Just (After Song of Songs)

Pre-concert talk start time: 6:15pm


Hildur Guðnadóttir

Cello

London Contemporary Orchestra

Orchestra

Robert Ames

Conductor

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