Ásgerður Júníusdóttir

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.

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 (2006), Magnus-Maria (2014) and Skuggaleikur (Play of Shadows, 2006) by Karólína Eiríksdóttir and Sjón, and Wide Slumber by Valgeir Sigurðsson (2014). She has also acted and sung in the mono-opera The Medium (2009) by sir Peter Maxwell Davies and appeared as actress in the theatre productions Common Nonsense (2004) and Ball of Yarn (2009).

She has released three CDs on the Smekkleysa label. Her first two Minn heimur og þinn (Tapestry of dreams, 2001), which contains songs and poems by Icelandic women and Í rökkri (At Twilight, 2006), containing songs by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, were both nominated for the Icelandic Music Award. Her latest CD, Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga (Far Beyond the Remotest Forests), with songs by Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson and Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson was released in the summer of 2011.

Ásgerður Júníusdóttir (born 26 September 1968) is an Icelandic singer, mezzo-soprano, and performer who has performed on stage and released music in Iceland and abroad.