Sigurður Bragason

His international career has taken him to music festivals and such renowned concert halls in Europe and the United States as the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam 1998, Beethoven Haus in Bonn 1992,1993 and 1998, Temppeliaukion Kirko (The Rock-Church) in Helsinki 1997 and 1998, The Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York 1996 and 2000, the Wigmore Hall in London 1993 and 2001 and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in 2003.

Sigurður has also appeared in Tosca, La Boheme, The Magic Flute, Let’s Make an Opera, Dido and Aeneas, Carmina Burana under Willy Gohl, Messias, Bach Cantatas and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi to name few of his musical roles. In 1995 Sigurður sang the lead role specially written for him in a new Icelandic opera “The Moonlight Island” by the Nordic Music Prize composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson on a tournee in Germany. Sigurður Bragason has appeared in several Radio and TV programs such as the Comparing Notes program in the BBC, in the Icelandic State Radio with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Alvaro Manzano and in the Mondschein Insel in the West Deutsche Rundfunk in Germany. Bragason´s first CD was“Icelandic and Italian songs” and then “Songs of Light and Darkness” with works by Tosti, Donizetti, Verdi, Respighi and Mussorgsky“ “Songs of the Master Pianists” with works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Rubinstein where he was accompanied by pianist Vovka Ashkenazy, “Mozart Arias” with the Baltic Symphony Orchestra and “Life and Lyrics” with Icelandic songs.

Sigurður Bragason (born 16 August 1954) is an Icelandic baritone.