SIGURGEIR AGNARSSON
CELLIST

Sigurgeir Agnarsson was appointed the principal cellist of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2017, having previously served as assistant principal cellist from 2003. Agnarsson graduated from the Reykjavík College of Music, where his teacher was Gunnar Kvaran. Further studies followed at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and at the Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf. Since then Agnarsson has enjoyed a wide and diversified career as a performer, teacher, and organiser of various music events.

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Agnarsson has appeared as a soloist on numerous occasions with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He has played at various music festivals, both in Iceland and abroad and appeared as a soloist with the Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, the Reykjavík Wind Orchestra and the Bochumer Symphoniker. In 2014 he was nominated as the Performer of the Year at the Iceland Music Award shared with pianist Anna Guðný Guðmundsdóttir, for their complete Beethoven cyclus.

He was the Artistic Director of Reykholt Chamber Music Festival (2013-2020), one of Iceland's oldest and most established summer festivals. Agnarsson teaches at the Reykjavík College of Music, a role he commenced in 2003. He is also one of the founders and a current board member of the Harpa International Music Academy.