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Icelandic Film Centre
The European Film Awards (EFAs)
will be held in Reykjavík, Iceland,
in December 2020. The choice
was announced following a consultation
process between the European Film
Academy, City of Reykjavík, and the
Icelandic government. The ceremony
will take place in Harpa Conference and
Concert Hall, together with various side-
events in connection to European film
production.
The European Film Awards were first
presented in Berlin in 1988, in order to
promote and support the European film
industry. They are held every second
year in Berlin and travel throughout
Europe in the other years: London, Paris,
Rome, Barcelona, Warsaw, Copenhagen,
Tallinn, Malta, Riga, Wroclaw and, last
year, Seville. Wherever they go, the EFAs
attract many foreign visitors such as film
professionals, EFA members, nominees and
winners, and international journalists.
This provides a great opportunity for
Reykjavík to promote Icelandic art, culture,
and design, as well as marketing Iceland as a
preferred destination for film production. It is
an important recognition of the Icelandic film
industry and places Reykjavik as an interesting
travel and filmmaking destination.
Three Icelanders have been honoured with
these prestigious awards. Composer Hilmar Örn
Hilmarsson received an EFA for the music in the
film Children of Nature by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir was honoured as best
actress in 2000 in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the
Dark. Björk also won the People's Choice Award
in the same year along with Ingvar E. Sigurðsson,
who was honoured for his part in the film Angels
of the Universe by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson.
Additionally, the European University Film
Award in 2017, chosen by film students from
across Europe, went to Guðmundur Arnar
Guðmundsson for Heartstone.
On March 22, 2019, Polycoro
will present Provocation, a
celebration of music written
by women and composers of colour
from developing nations – two groups
chronically underrepresented on concert
stages. The event will feature Winnipeg
premieres of works by rising Filipino star
Nilo Alcala, Haitian composers Emile
Desamours and Sydney Guillaume,
Icelandic composer Þóra Marteinsdóttir,
and Canadian composers Jocelyn
Morlock and Vivian Fung. Maples
Collegiate Chamber Choir, conducted
by Phil Lapatha, will be sharing the
stage with Polycoro as they celebrate the
universal language of music, singing in
Tagalog, Creole, Icelandic, and more.
Admission to this concert is by donation.
Þóra Marteinsdóttir, 40, is a
composer, choir director, and music
teacher in Kópavogur. She is the
daughter of the late Marteinn Hunger
Friðriksson, who was the long-time
organist and choir director at Dómkirkjan,
the National Cathedral in Reykjavík,
and choir director Þórunn Björnsdóttir.
Raised in Kópavogur, it is said that
she “received music with her mother's
milk” and she composed her first song
when she was only eight years old. She
studied piano and composition at the
Reykjavík College of Music and pursued
postgraduate studies of composition
at the University of Gothenburg in
Sweden. Þóra’s compositions, which are
deeply spiritual and moving, have been
performed worldwide and appear on
many recordings. You can listen to Þóra’s
work at thoramarteinsdottir.wordpress.
com, as well as at Spotify, Soundcloud,
and YouTube. Polycoro has videos of
two of her works, Örlög and Nú legg ég
þér í lófa at its YouTube channel, where
P.J. Buchan can be seen singing with the
choir.
Polycoro Chamber Choir, now in
its fifth season, has garnered praise and
recognition for continuing to “blaze a
trail with its breath-taking artistry and
gutsy programming.” The Winnipeg
Free Press labeled the choir “a force to
be reckoned with on both the local and
national stages.” Since its inaugural
concert in 2015, Polycoro has taken
Winnipeg’s music scene by storm through
innovative programming and virtuosic
performances. Polycoro continues to
push artistic boundaries and nurture
partnerships with leading Canadian
composers, musicians, and artists.
The choir’s artistic director, John
Wiens, is dynamic and versatile
with a wide-ranging repertoire.
Widely recognized for his eloquent
interpretations and persuasive
musicality, he is also a conductor of
Camerata Nova. He holds degrees in
voice, violin, and conducting from
McGill University, Canadian Mennonite
University, and the University of
Sherbrooke.
The concert will be held at Knox
United Church on March 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is by donation and you can
reserve your seat at www.polycoro.ca.
ÞÓRA MARTEINSDÓTTIR’S MUSIC TO BE PERFORMED BY POLYCORO
PHOTO COURTESY OF FACEBOOK
Polycoro
Reykjavík to host 2020 European Film Awards
PHOTO: ICELANDIC FILM CENTER
Harpa Concert Hall, venue for the 2020
European Film Awards