From the New World

Isabelle Faust has been one of the world's most sought-after violinists for years. She is well known to Icelanders after being a resident artist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2010-11 and visiting us several times after that. In this concert, she will play an award-winning violin concerto by one of Australia's most renowned living composers, Brett Dean, whose subject is the lost art of letter writing. The composition The Deep – Requiem by Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson will be premiered, who passed away in March 2026, will be premiered. In this melancholic work, he remembers friends and others who have, of their own accord, crossed the threshold that separates our lives from the world of the unknown. The Deep – Requiem was the last orchestral work that Hjálmar completed. The concert concludes with Dvořák's ever-popular symphony, From the New World, which still touches audiences with its unforgettable melodies and breathtaking drama.

Conductor
Olari Elts

Violin
Isabelle Faust

Program
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson The Deep – Requiem (World premiere)
Brett Dean The Lost Art of Letter Writing, Violin concerto
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

Promoter

Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands