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Saturday, June 27th
SÓLEY
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2500kr / 2000kr students / pay what u can
Sóley Stefánsdóttir er tónskáld og lagahöfundur úr Hafnarfirði. Hún útskrifaðist af tónsmíðabraut Listaháskóla Íslands árið 2010 og hefur síðan þá gefið út fjölmargar plötur og verk sem hlotið hafa bæði verðlaun og viðurkenningar. Árið 2022 var Sóley tilnefnd til Norrænu Tónlistarverðlaunanna og hlaut Íslensku Tónlistarverðlaunin sama ár fyrir plötu sína Mother Melancholia. Sóley hefur komið víða að og unnið að tónlist fyrir fjögur leikhúsverk, kvikmyndir og dansverk.
Sóley leggur nú lokahönd á nýjasta verkið sitt quean en í verkinu rannsakar hún hinar ýmsu hliðar femínismans; hávaða og einfaldleika, hið mjúka form kvenlíkamans, þögnina og flókið móðurlífið.
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Few artists balance fragility and fearlessness quite like Sóley Stefánsdóttir. The Icelandic songwriter, composer, and producer has spent more than a decade and a half crafting music that slips between dark pop, contemporary classical, and cinematic sound design. Her songs, built on hushed vocals and stark piano, seem to glow from within – tender one moment, quietly unsettling the next. Raised in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, Sóley was drawn to the piano from an early age. She studied classical music before moving into composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where her imagination began to stretch beyond the traditional.
Her first solo release, the 2010 EP Theater Island introduced a world of delicate melodies and dreamlike imagery. The following year, her debut album We Sink arrived – an arresting collection of eerie lullabies that announced a singular new voice from Iceland’s ever-fertile scene. Critics were quick to take note, and touring soon carried her across Europe, the US, and Asia. Two other albums followed, Ask The Deep 2015 and Endless Summer 2017 and touring continued.
Then came Mother Melancholia (2021), a record that shifted everything. Built around prepared piano, voice, and electronics, it abandoned familiar song forms in favour of something more abstract and cinematic. The result was an apocalyptic meditation on ecological collapse and human fragility – bold, beautiful, and deeply moving. Critics called it her most fearless work to date, and it pushed her further into the world of composition and film scoring. Mother Melancholia received Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, alongside nominations for Music Video of the Year (directed by Samantha Shay) and Song of the Year. The album also earned Album of the Year honors from The Reykjavík Grapevine and was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2022.
Since then, Sóley has continued to expand her creative reach. She has written scores for film and theatre, blending piano, electronics, and voice into immersive sound worlds that mirror her visual storytelling instincts. Collaboration has become central to her process, linking her music to art, stage, dance and screen.
Now based in Reykjavík, Sóley continues to move between songwriting and composition, between intimacy and imagination. Over the years, she has built a body of work that is unmistakably her own: poetic, unsettling, and quietly transformative.
SÓLEY
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2500kr / 2000kr students / pay what u can
Sóley Stefánsdóttir er tónskáld og lagahöfundur úr Hafnarfirði. Hún útskrifaðist af tónsmíðabraut Listaháskóla Íslands árið 2010 og hefur síðan þá gefið út fjölmargar plötur og verk sem hlotið hafa bæði verðlaun og viðurkenningar. Árið 2022 var Sóley tilnefnd til Norrænu Tónlistarverðlaunanna og hlaut Íslensku Tónlistarverðlaunin sama ár fyrir plötu sína Mother Melancholia. Sóley hefur komið víða að og unnið að tónlist fyrir fjögur leikhúsverk, kvikmyndir og dansverk.
Sóley leggur nú lokahönd á nýjasta verkið sitt quean en í verkinu rannsakar hún hinar ýmsu hliðar femínismans; hávaða og einfaldleika, hið mjúka form kvenlíkamans, þögnina og flókið móðurlífið.
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Few artists balance fragility and fearlessness quite like Sóley Stefánsdóttir. The Icelandic songwriter, composer, and producer has spent more than a decade and a half crafting music that slips between dark pop, contemporary classical, and cinematic sound design. Her songs, built on hushed vocals and stark piano, seem to glow from within – tender one moment, quietly unsettling the next. Raised in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, Sóley was drawn to the piano from an early age. She studied classical music before moving into composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, where her imagination began to stretch beyond the traditional.
Her first solo release, the 2010 EP Theater Island introduced a world of delicate melodies and dreamlike imagery. The following year, her debut album We Sink arrived – an arresting collection of eerie lullabies that announced a singular new voice from Iceland’s ever-fertile scene. Critics were quick to take note, and touring soon carried her across Europe, the US, and Asia. Two other albums followed, Ask The Deep 2015 and Endless Summer 2017 and touring continued.
Then came Mother Melancholia (2021), a record that shifted everything. Built around prepared piano, voice, and electronics, it abandoned familiar song forms in favour of something more abstract and cinematic. The result was an apocalyptic meditation on ecological collapse and human fragility – bold, beautiful, and deeply moving. Critics called it her most fearless work to date, and it pushed her further into the world of composition and film scoring. Mother Melancholia received Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, alongside nominations for Music Video of the Year (directed by Samantha Shay) and Song of the Year. The album also earned Album of the Year honors from The Reykjavík Grapevine and was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2022.
Since then, Sóley has continued to expand her creative reach. She has written scores for film and theatre, blending piano, electronics, and voice into immersive sound worlds that mirror her visual storytelling instincts. Collaboration has become central to her process, linking her music to art, stage, dance and screen.
Now based in Reykjavík, Sóley continues to move between songwriting and composition, between intimacy and imagination. Over the years, she has built a body of work that is unmistakably her own: poetic, unsettling, and quietly transformative.
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Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland, Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavíkurborg, Ísland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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