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, Aalto Theater Essen, Kiel, Kassel, Stuttgart, Munich, Martina Franca, Salzburg, Prague, Reykjavík, Rome, Vilnius, Seville and Madrid.
Bryndís repertoire is wide and spans many centuries.
Among the opera roles which she has sung are:
1. Dame from Die Zauberflöte by Mozart (Aalto Theater Essen, 2024 under the baton of Christopher Moulds)
Ännchen from Der Freischütz by Weber (Theater Kiel, 2024, under the baton of Benjamin Reiners),
1. Dienerin from Die Frau ohne Schatten by R. Strauss (Semperoper Dresden, 2024, under the baton of Christian Thielemann),
Cunegonde from Candide by Bernstein (Theater Kiel 2023, under the baton of Benjamin Reiners),
Contessa Armelinda from Gli Uccellatori by Gassmann's (Festival della Valle d'itria Martina Franca 2023, under the baton of Enrico Pagano),
Belinda from Dido and Aeneas by Purcell (Banchetto Musicale, Vilnius 2023 under the baton of Christian Frattima),
Königin der Nacht from Die Zauberflöte by Mozart (Staatsheater Kassel 2023 Viktor Jugovic, Iceland Syphony Orchestra 2023, Kornilios Michailidis Reaktorhalle München 2021, Viktor Jugovic)
Servilia from La clemenza di Tito by Mozart (Salzburg, 2021,under the baton of Gernot Sahler),
Giulietta fromLes contes d'Hoffmann by Offenbach (Salzburg, 2019, under the baton of Gernot Sahler)
Mrs. Julianfrom Owen Wingrave by B. Britten (Salzburg, 2020, under the baton of Gernot Sahler)
Her other operatic roles include Erste Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, 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.
Orchestral works include:
Beethoven 9. Symphony (2024, Kiel under the baton of Daniel Carlber, 2019, Harpa Concerthall under the baton of Daniel Raiskin)
Carmina Burana by C. Orff (2024, 2023, 2022 ) in Liederhalle Stuttgart under the baton of Heiko Mathias Förster und 2022 with Fjóla Nikulásdóttir)
Ad Genua by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (2023, Isländische Symphony Orchester, under the baton of Eva Ollikainen)
Requiem by Mozart (Island 2023, under the baton of, Steinar Logi Helgason)
Matthäuspassion by J.S. Bach (2022, Island under the baton of Lára Bryndís Eggertsdóttir)
Stabat Mater by Pergolesi (Banchetto Musicale, 2022,Vilnius under the baton of Christian Frattima),
Nulla in Mundo, by Vivaldi (2022, Vilnius, Musikalische Leitung Christian Frattima),
Folk songs by Berio (2018, Rome under the baton of Michaelangelo Galeati)
Bryndís has been the chairman of the non profit organization of the Icelandic Symphony orchestra of the seasons of 2022-23 and 2023-24.
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.
Updated January 2024