Biography
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Icelandic soprano, Bryndis Gudjonsdottir, received both her Bacelor's degree in 2019 and her Master‘s Degree in 2021 in Opera Performance at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, summa cum laude in Austria, where she studied with Professor Michèle Crider.
Prior to moving to Salzburg, Bryndís spent one year at the Iceland University of the Arts, where she worked with Thora Einarsdóttir, Kristinn Sigmundsson and Ólöf Kolbrún Harðardóttir.
Bryndís is the recipient of several prizes.
In 2025 Bryndís received“ the Iceland PerformingvArts Awards for her role as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro in Iceland.
In 2022 Bryndís was awarded the first prize of the XVIII Certamen Nuevas Voces Ciudad de Sevilla Competiton in Sevilla, Spain as well as she received the Special prize of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.
In 2021 Bryndís won the first prize in the Riccardo Zandonai competition in Garda, Italy.
In 2018 prize winner of the 2018 Dušek competition in Prague. won the Young Soloists Competition in Iceland.
Bryndís has performed in various Opera houses and with Symphony orchestras such as in
Semperoper Dresden, Aalto Theater Essen, Dortmund, Chemnitz, Kiel, Kassel, Madrid,
Nürnberg, Munich, Martina Franca, Salzburg, Liederhalle Stuttgart, Seville, Prague, Reykjavík, Rome and Vilnius.
Bryndís is represented by Boris Orlob Management in Berlin.
Bryndís repertoire embraces a wide range:
She has sung Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro at the Reykjavík City Theatre, a performance for which she was awarded the Icelandic Performing Arts Prize conducted by Elena Postumi and directed by Bjarni Thor Kristinsson. She performed in Semperoper Dresden Erste Dienerin in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten under the baton of Christian Thielemann and directed by David Bösch. Bryndís appeared as the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte in
Aalto Theater Essen in a new production directed by Magdalena Fuchsbergerunder the baton of Christopher Moulds and Tommaso Turchetta and at Theater Kassel she sang the Queen of the Night in the same opera. Bryndís performed Contessa Armelinda in Gassmann’s Gli Uccellatori at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca under the baton of Enrico Pagano, directed by Jean Renshaw which was also recorded on CD by Naxos Records. She performed Ännchen in Weber’s Der Freischütz at Theater Kiel under the baton of Benjamin Reiners and Daniel Carlberg, directed by Jean-Romain Vesperiniani. Bryndís performed the role of Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Vilnius in tour around Lithuania under the baton of Christian Frattima,
Other roles include Servilia in La clemenza di Tito in Salzburg, Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Mrs. Julian in Britten’s Owen Wingrave in Salzburg, Hilda in Mangold’s Gudrun in Darmstadt.
Upcoming highlights include and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Teatro de la Maestranza and Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème in Reykjavík.
In addition, she has presented full concert programs, including a recital with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Ville Matvejeff, and a gala concert with Lucas Macías and the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla.
Bryndís performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana have included appearances at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville under the baton of Shiyeon Sung, at the Liederhalle Stuttgart with Heiko Mathias Förster, and in Iceland with Fjóla Nikulásdóttir, as well as at major venues in Munich, Nürnberg, and Reykjavík. She has also sung Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Robert-Schumann Philharmonie under the baton of Benjamin Reiners, Kiel Philharmonic under Daniel Carlberg (2024) and with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at Harpa Concert Hall (2019).
Her repertoire further includes Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Ad Genua with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under Eva Ollikainen, Mozart’s Requiem in Reykjavík under Steinar Logi Helgason, and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Iceland. With Banchetto Musicale in Vilnius she appeared in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Vivaldi’s Nulla in mundo pax sincera under the baton of Christian Frattima.
She has also performed Berio’s Folk Songs in Rome under Michelangelo Galeati.