The Cham­ber Mu­sic So­ci­ety - Fi­nal notes: Moz­art, Brahms, Brit­ten and Vaka

General ticket sales for the Chamber Music Society's concerts begin on Culture Night, August 23, but until then, you can purchase The Chamber Music Society Pass at Harpa's box office and on Harpa's website. The passes will be ready for pick-up at Harpa's box office from August 23, when the Chamber Music Society will hold a short concert as part of Harpa's Culture Night programme.

At the last concert of the winter, the Siggi String Quartet will perform a magnificent and diverse repertoire with three guests on different instruments. Before the intermission, two works for wind instruments and strings will be performed, Mozart's Flute Quartet in D major with Emilia Rós Sigfúsdóttir and Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet with Julia Hantschel, conductor of the oboe department of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. A new work by Veronique Vaka will also be premiered. After an intermission, the Siggi String Quartet, along with pianist Mathias Susaas Halvorsen, will perform Brahms' magnificent masterpiece, Piano Quintet in F minor.

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Flute Quartet in D-major, K. 285
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondeau

Veronique Vaka (1986): New composition

Benjamin Britten (1913-1974): Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings

HLÉ

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Quintet in f-minor op. 34
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante, un poco adagio
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale

Performers
Siggi String Quartet (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, violin, Helga Þóra Björgvinsdóttir, violin, Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir, viola and Sigurður Bjarki Gunnarsson, cello)
Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir, flute
Julia Hantschel, oboe
Mathias Susaas Halvorsen, piano

The Chamber Music Society's concerts are part of Harpa's Sunday Classics series.