Ásgerður Júníusdóttir is an Icelandic singer, mezzo-soprano, and performer who has performed on stage and released music in Iceland and abroad.
Biography
Ásgerður Júníusdóttir, mezzo-soprano, has appeared as a singer and actress in Iceland and abroad. In her career she has focused on 20th- and 21st-century Icelandic music and premiered works by contemporary composers, including Jórunn Viðar, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Haukur Tómasson, Karólína Eiríksdóttir, and Ragnhildur Gísladóttir, as well as worked with different music ensembles such as the English Brodsky Quartet. She has released three CDs on the Smekkleysa label. Her first two Minn heimur og þinn, which contains songs and poems by Icelandic women and Í rökkri, containing songs by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, were both nominated for the Icelandic Music Award. Her latest CD, Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga, with songs by Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson and Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson was released in the summer of 2011. Among the parts that Ásgerður has sung on stage are those of Carmen in Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name at the Reykjavík City Theatre, Magnus-Maria and Skuggaleikur by Karólína Eiríksdóttir and Sjón, and Wide Slumber by Valgeir Sigurðsson. She has also acted and sung in the mono-opera The Medium by sir Peter Maxwell Davies and appeared as actress in the theatre productions Common Nonsense and Ball of Yarn. In the summer of 2011 she took part in "Your Country Does Not Exist" by Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Iceland's official Icelandic contribution to the Venice Biennale, performing a political statement on a gondola sailing Venice.
Works
Discography
Minn heimur og þinn Songs and poems by Icelandic women
Í rökkri Songs by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson
Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga Songs by Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson
Stage
Common Nonsense, a play by John Wrigth and the troupe
Lange Nacht der Opera an installation of three works at the Volksbühne
Wide Slumber an opera by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Magnus Maria: An opera about the right gender, an opera by Karólína Eiríksdóttir
Contributions
Svo á jörðu sem á himni, "As in Heaven" soundtrack by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson to the film by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir.
Glands, a song on the album "Hi-Camp meets Lo-fi" by Dip.
Sense of Reason, a song on the album "In Cod We Trust" by Ghostigital.
Les mystères du Snæfellsjökull, the song "Aria" by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson features in the soundtrack of the documentary by Jean-Michel Roux.
Litlu börnin leika sér and Kindur jarma í kofunum, two children songs on the album "Hvað á að gera?" by Margrét Örnólfsdóttir.
Motorlab #2 A compilation from the Kitchen Motors events in Reykjavík. Ásgerður Júníusdóttir sings in excerpts from the chamber opera Kisa by Múm and Sjón.
