It’s Skipping Time! Come and join us in Hörpuhorn for a musical playground!
Skipping Time is a musical invitation to play, move and create a musical experience together. You are invited to join the show!
Come and skip with us while accompanied by Seigla artists improvising to your sounds and movements.
Little Seigla - Skipping Time
Harpa tónlistar- og ráðstefnuhús, Austurbakki 2, 101 Reykjavík Directions
Sun 09.08.2026 14:00
ABOUT THE CREATORS:
Merve Ünlü is a Helsinki-based architect, urban designer, and artist from Türkiye. She has worked on large-scale public space projects, architectural design, and research across Finland, Türkiye and Italy. Her practice focuses on the social dimensions of urban design, with particular interests in gender, inclusivity, and the politics of public space. She is currently developing Cityscapes: A Vision for Universal Urban Enjoyment, an art and urbanism project supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Lee Marable is an architect and designer based in London. He presently runs the design studio Regular Celery, and has previously worked for architecture and design practices in London, Stockholm and Helsinki. Between 2019 and 2023 he published BUM Editions, a risograph printed arts and culture magazine. He has a particular interest in the ethics of urban design and use of public spaces.
Merve Ünlü is a Helsinki-based architect, urban designer, and artist from Türkiye. She has worked on large-scale public space projects, architectural design, and research across Finland, Türkiye and Italy. Her practice focuses on the social dimensions of urban design, with particular interests in gender, inclusivity, and the politics of public space. She is currently developing Cityscapes: A Vision for Universal Urban Enjoyment, an art and urbanism project supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Lee Marable is an architect and designer based in London. He presently runs the design studio Regular Celery, and has previously worked for architecture and design practices in London, Stockholm and Helsinki. Between 2019 and 2023 he published BUM Editions, a risograph printed arts and culture magazine. He has a particular interest in the ethics of urban design and use of public spaces.
Performers
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Seigla Festival's Final RecitalSeigla Festival is a classical music festival held in Harpa on the 5th-7th of August. Browse the festival programme on our website at: seiglafestival.com Seigla Festival’s final recital features music by American and Nordic composers, starting with Hallelujah Junction, a two piano piece by John Adams. The main characteristics are short rhythmic patterns that echo between the two instruments, and serve as an analogy for how traffic at a junction moves. The rhythmic patterns of the opening derive from the word „Hallelujah“, where the accent lands on the third syllable, through which one might hear the rhythm of the pianos say “llelujah, llelujah, llelujah…”. The two instrumentalists play the rhythms at a slight delay, creating a sense of planned resonance or echo. Hallelujah Junction is loosely structured into three contrasting movements whereas the music flows in gradual changes towards the final moments: a true onomatopoeic feast. Here, we get to hear the rhythmic pattern of the full four syllables in the word „Hallelujah“ as well as the „Junction“ being thrown rapturously between the two instruments. Despite the fact that the Nordic composers and contemporaries Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius never managed to actually meet in person, they respected one another’s music and even wrote letters stating their mutual admiration. Both were big admirers of the German Lied and wrote significant collections in the style. Six Songs, Op. 48, by Edvard Grieg are among his best known and beloved. After the intermission we will hear three short and romantic solo pieces by Jean Sibelius from his Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 24. Sibelius’ larger-scale pieces are by far his best known, his symphonies and violin concerto, but he also wrote a considerable amount of incredibly beautiful lieder, chamber pieces and piano pieces which are seldom performed. Seigla Festival’s Final Recital concludes with Amy Beach’s songs for voice, violin, cello and piano. Beach was the first American woman to achieve widespread recognition as a composer. An incredible artist and pioneer, she wrote over 150 songs to poems both by herself and others, and often influenced by folk music. Performers: Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrens, soprano Vera Hjördís Matsdóttir, soprano Ólafur Freyr Birkisson, bass baritone Gunnhildur Daðadóttir, violinist Guðný Jónasdóttir, cellist Elisabeth Streichert, pianist Erna Vala Arnardóttir, pianist Pétur Ernir Svavarsson, pianist
