Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir
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Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir (born 13 January 1967) is an Icelandic violinist. She is concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and has performed widely as soloist and chamber musician, both in Iceland and abroad.
Sigrún began her violin studies at age 5 with Gígja Jóhannsdóttir, and later studied with Guðný Guðmundsdóttir at the Reykjavík College of Music, completing a soloist diploma in 1984. In 1988 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where Jamie Laredo was her teacher.[1] She was a founding member of the Miami String Quartet from 1988–1990, and has frequently appeared as soloist at international festivals, including a performance of Leifur Þórarinsson's Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow in 1992.[2] She was a guest concertmaster at the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra in Copenhagen in 2012–2013.[1] In 1998, Sigrún was appointed First Concertmaster of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Sigrún has appeared frequently as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and has performed all the major violin concertos with the orchestra. In 2015, a double CD was released with live recordings of her performances of concertos by Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg, Jean Sibelius, and Antonín Dvorák. She has also premiered new concertos that have been written especially for her, such as Haukur Tómasson's Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra in 1997,[3] and the Violin Concerto by Áskell Másson in 2006.[4] Her international appearances with the orchestra include Nottingham Royal Concert Hall[5] and Usher Hall,[6] both in 2023.
Sigrún has also performed widely as a chamber musician. In 2015, in collaboration with the pianist Gerrit Schuil, she performed all the violin sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven at the Reykjavík Arts Festival.[7]
