Biography
Icelandic soprano, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, recieved 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, Alexander von Pfeil and Gernot Sahler.
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 2022 Bryndís was awarded the first prize of the XVIII Certamen Nuevas Voces Ciudad de Sevilla Competiton in Sevilla, Spain as well as 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 addition, she was the winner of the 2018 Young Soloists Competition in Iceland with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra andthe first prize winner of the 2018 Dušek competition in Prague.
Bryndís has performed in various Opera houses and with Symphony orchestras such as in
Semperoper Dresden, Kiel, Kassel, Stuttgart, Munich, Martina Franca, Salzburg, Prague, Reykjavík, Rome, Vilnius, Seville and Madrid.
Bryndís has sung with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2018 the Young Soloist concert, in 2021 for their annual Christmas concert, 2023 in the Magic Flute and Ad Genua and with the Youth Icelandic Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in 2019.
Bryndís repertoire is wide and spans many centuries.
Among the operas in which she has sung are
1. Dienerin from Die Frau Ohne Schatten by R. Strauss (Semperoper Dresden, under the baton of Christian Thielemann, Dresden 2024)
Cunegonde from Candide by Bernstein (Wunderino Arena, under the baton of Benjamin Reiners, Kiel 2023),
La Contessa Armelinda in Gassmann's Gli Uccellatori (Festival della Valle d'Itria, under the baton of Enrico Pagano, Martina Franca 2023),
Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Banchetto Musicale, under the baton of Christian Frattima, Vilnius 2023),
Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Theater Kassel 2023 Viktor Jugović, Iceland Symphony Orchestra 2023 Kornilios Michailidis)
Servilia in Mozart'a La clemenza di Tito (Mozarteum, Salzburg 2021),
Giulietta in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann (Mozarteum, Salzburg 2019) and
Mrs. Julian in Britten's Owen Wingrave (Mozarteum, Salzburg 2020)
Her other operatic roles include Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Oscar in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Waldvogel in Wagner’s Sigfried,
Venus in J. Blow's Venus and Adonis, Sandmännchen / Taummänchen in E. Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel and Ännchen in Weber’s Der Freischütz.
Orchestral works include:
New Years program, arias from Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss (2024, Teatro de la Maestranza,under the baton of Lucas Macías with Real Orquestar Sinfónica de Sevilla)
Beethoven's 9th Symphony (2024, Wunderino Arena, Kiel under the baton of Daniel Carlberg, 2019 Harpa Concert Hall under the baton of Daniel Raiskin)
Carmina Burana by Orff (2023, 2022 Liederhalle Stuttgart under the baton of Heiko Mathias Förster with Prague Royal Philharmonic & 2022, Harpa Concert Hall)
Mozart Requiem by Mozart (2023, Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland under the baton of Steinar Logi Helgason)
Ad Genua by A. Thorvaldsdóttir (2023, Hallgrímskirkja with Iceland Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Eva Ollikainen)
Matthew Passion by Bach (2022, in Harpa Concert Hall)
Stabat Mater by Pergolesi (2022, Paliesus Dvaras Lithuania under the baton of Christian Frattima)
Nulla in Mundo RV. 630 by Vivaldi (2022, Paliesus Dvaras Lithuania under the baton of Christian Frattima)
No che non sei capace K.419 by Mozart (2018, Gasteig, München under the baton of Hansjörg Albrecht)
Folk Songs by Berio (2018, Santa Cecilia, Italy under the baton of Michaelangelo Galeati)
In 2023 Bryndís was a member of Accademia del Belcanto "Rodolfo Celletti" in Martina Franca.
Bryndís is a receipient of the Söngmenntasjóður Marínós Péturssonar scholarship, the Halldór Hansen scholarship,
the Ingjaldssjóður scholarship, Rotary scholarship from Iceland, Gianna Szel scholarship in Austria, and the Richard Wagner Scholarship.
Bryndis has been the chairman of the non profit organization of the Icelandic Symphony orchestra of the seasons of 2022-23 and 2023-24
Updated January 2024