Egill Ólafsson

This sunday, we (Vox feminae) are having a concert at the Catholic Church in Reykjavík at 16h. It´s a charity concert and we will accompany Egill Ólafsson - a great Icelandic singer and a character with a lot of charisma.

Egill Ólafsson is an icelandic freelance artist of a versatility rarely met with.

He is well known to the international audience as an actor, singer and composer.

He studied at The Reykjavík Conservatory singing and composition and has taken master classes with Per Raben, Jukka Linkola, Pierre Dörge, Jo Estill, Oren Brown, Thorsten Föllinger to mention a few.

As an actor he has apeared in almost 30 feature films mostly in leading roles as well as in several TV - films.
He has also been as a principal in many theatre plays and musicals. Just recently he did Fred Graham in Kiss Me Kate, at the City Theatre in Reykjavik. He has done Sky Masterson in Guys And Dolls, Jean Valjean in Les Miserable (he joined the 10th anniversary concert of Les Mis at the Royal Albert Hall 1996) Peron in Evita and Escamillo in Carmen Negra for The Icelandic Opera.

His songwriters output contains four musicals, music for eight films, six plays, two ballets, three albums of solo pieces and two albums of arrangements of Icelandic folk music. He has also worked with Icelands most popular bands through the years, Studmenn and The Icelandic Hobgoblins (Thursaflokkurinn) both as a songwriter and singer.

The year 2000 Egill worked with Björn Thoroddsen and his trio. The same year Reykjavik (capital of Iceland) was one of Europes Cultural Cities and Egill and Björn's Trio travelled to Canada, USA, Russia, Finland, Spain and Norway because of this, representing Icelandic music.