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Iceland Guest is an information website for your travel to Iceland. On this site you can get all the tourist information you need for your vacation in Iceland. We hope that you will find this online travel guide useful in planning your holidays in Iceland.

About Iceland
Iceland is a refreshingly unconventional travel destination. The Icelandic nature is unspoilt, exotic and mystical with its spouting geysers, active volcanoes, tumbling waterfalls, towering mountains, vast lava plains and magical lakes. Iceland’s fjords, glaciers and highland plains present visitors with some of the most beautiful and enchanting places they will ever see, as well as a rare feeling of utter tranquillity.

For travelers on a quest for action, Iceland’s pristine nature offers great potential for outdoor activities such as snowmobiling, horse riding, cave exploring, hiking, swimming, skiing, river rafting, kayaking and mountain safaris on modified four-wheel drives, to name but a few. Iceland supports a surprisingly diverse Nordic flora and fauna and is an ideal place for ornithology enthusiasts, while also offering some of the world’s best whale watching destinations.

About Reykjavik
Reykjavík sometimes feels like a cosmopolitan capital and a tiny seaside village - all wrapped up in one. But Reykjavík has the best of both worlds; the qualities of a modern, forward-looking society complemented by a close connection to Iceland‚s beautiful and unspoilt nature.

Reykjavík’s legendary nightlife is bolstered by plentiful cultural and social happenings in addition to an abundance of first-class restaurants. The size of Reykjavik city centre is also limited enough to allow for easy navigation by foot. Reykjavík has been described as a young and daring city that is characterized by strong contrasts. Conveniently small, clean and safe, it is more or less free from the major problems that haunt many other capitals. Big city events are frequent, the winter lights festival finished recently with thousands of participants and more tourist at this time of the year than we are used to.

Museum and Culture

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra - Háskólabíó Reykjavík, Tel. 545 2500

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra, widely considered to be one of the leading Nordic orchestras, continues to attract audiences through its high standards of performance coupled with innovative programming. In its 2005 - 2006 concert season, the ISO continues its complete cycle of Shostakovich symphonies, performing symphonies 8-11 under the direction of Rumon Gamba, the ISO´s Principal Conductor and Musical Director.

These include an all-Shostakovich concert on 23 March in which symphonies 9 and 10 will be heard, as well as the Piano Concerto no. 2 with pianist Peter Jablonski. Other highlights include the cristalline soprano voice of Barbara Bonney, who will perform songs by Grieg in a concert that also features Brahms´s Fourth symhony (27 October), the renowned flutist Sharon Bezaly in Sofia Gubaidulina´s Flute Concerto (29 September), and Rachel Barton, who performes Joseph Joachim´s brilliant but rarely heard Violin Concerto (2 February). Among the orchestral favorites performed this season are Mahler´s Sixth symphony (Alexander Vedernikov conducting, 11 May) and Schubert´s Ninth symphony under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy (15 June). In celebration of W. A. Mozart´s 250th anniversary in 2006, the ISO will perform his opera La Clemenza di Tito for the first time in Iceland (Rumon Gamba, 26 January), and also performs his Requiem with Petri Sakari conducting (6 April). The ISO is also committed to performing contemporary Icelandic music. Among the works performed in 2005-2006 are concertos by Jón Nordal in celebration of the composer´s 80th birthday (9 March), the recent Symphony no. 2 by Atli Heimir Sveinsson (1 June), and a new violin concerto by Áskell Másson (9 June).

Ticket Office
Try our web site: www.sinfonia.is, where it is possible to purchase tickets for the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra concerts.

The office of the Symphony Orchestra is open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. On performance nights the office is open until the concert commences.

You can contact the office either by telephone: +354-545-2500, fax: +354-562- 4475 or by sending an e-mail to: sinfonia@sinfonia.is