Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir

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Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir ( Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir ; * 1984 in Reykjavik ) is an American cellist of Icelandic origin.

Life

Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir studied at the Cleveland Institute , the Juilliard School and the Stony Brook University and won prizes in international competitions such as the Naumburg Competition in New York and the Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb. Her teachers were Richard Aaron , Tanya L. Carey , Colin Carr, and Joel Krosnick . She has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Seattle Symphony , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and others, and has played in Carnegie Hall , Suntory Hall , the Elbphilharmonie , at the Barbican Center and Disney Hall .

As a chamber musician, she has performed with musicians such as Itzhak Perlman , Mitsuko Uchida , Richard Goode and the members of the Emerson Quartet , Guarneri Quartet and Cavani Quartet on, was a member of the Manhattan Piano Trio and plays the cello in the Seattle-based chamber group Frequency and ensemble Decoda to the Carnegie Hall . In the field of contemporary music, she has worked with composers such as Daníel Bjarnason , Páll Ragnar Pálsson , Halldór Smárason , Þuríður Jónsdóttir and Melia Watras . In the 2017–18 season she played the US premiere of Betsy Jolas ' Wanderlied and the premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticle of the Sun in Hong Kong, in the 2018–19 season she made her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony Páll Ragnar Pálssons Cello Concerto Quake . In 2011 she released her debut album with the three cello suites by Benjamin Britten ; The album Vernacular with Icelandic music for cello solo followed in 2019 on the Sono Luminus label .

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SURNAME Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic-American cellist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavik