Eydís Evensen is one of Iceland’s most remarkable musical exports — a composer and pianist whose deeply emotive soundscapes have quietly captivated audiences around the world. Classically trained, but led by instinct and emotion, Evensen creates music that transcends genre: flowing between modern classical, ambient minimalism, cinematic composition, and quiet introspection. Her work is as rooted in feeling as it is in technique — music that doesn’t just speak, but listens.
Raised in the windswept northern town of Blönduós, where the raw Icelandic landscape shapes every aspect of life, Evensen began composing at the age of seven, inspired by a snowstorm battering the windows of her childhood home. That first composition set the tone for everything to come: beauty wrapped in fragility, movement born from stillness, and a deep emotional connection to the natural world.
Her debut album Bylur (2021), released on Sony Masterworks imprint XXIM Records and named after the Icelandic word for “snowstorm,” is an intimate and moving collection of piano-led pieces and string arrangements that trace her emotional journey from childhood through adulthood. It’s a record shaped by solitude, displacement, and memory — a modern classical diary etched in sound. With her second album on XXIM Records, The Light (2023), Evensen expanded her sonic palette, introducing choral arrangements, subtle electronics, and — for the first time — her own voice. It’s a powerful meditation on healing and resilience, written in the aftermath of personal trials, global uncertainty, and her growing concern for the environmental fragility of her homeland.
Evensen’s music is guided by emotion above all else. Her compositions are raw, graceful expressions of what it means to feel deeply — to mourn, to hope, to reflect, to move forward. There is an honesty to her work that’s increasingly rare: she writes from experience, from memory, from pain and joy alike, with no attempt to dilute or disguise it. Each piece carries a story, and every performance is a new telling of it.
Live, Evensen’s concerts are quietly breathtaking. Her shows are immersive, intimate, and atmospheric — the kind of experience that holds a room in stillness, she creates a world that invites listeners in, allowing them to feel their way through the music rather than just hear it. Her presence at the piano is both gentle and commanding, and no two performances are ever the same — shaped by the space, the moment, and the energy of those present.
With millions of streams worldwide and a growing international following, Evensen has quickly become a unique and vital voice in the modern classical landscape. Yet what sets her apart isn’t just her technical ability or compositional flair — it’s her unwavering emotional clarity. Her music doesn’t strive to impress, it simply exists to connect.
This is music that lingers. Music that comforts. Music that heals.
Join Eydís Evensen for a select run of European and North American dates this October and November — and experience a performance that reaches far beyond the concert hall, leaving echoes long after the final note has faded.
Villő
Dóra Villő Czeizer is a 21-year-old singer and songwriter based in Budapest.
At the age of 17, Villő won a competition at the Hungarian Ludwig Museum with her very first song. In 2021, with the release of that song, Stolen Cups, she launched her project ʻVillőʼ, made up of intimate, subtle, experimental works. Within her songs, she explores the formation of fragile human bonds and impressions and the inconsolable emptiness after the ruin. Villő began performing more seriously in 2023, usually accompanied by guitar, flute, clarinet, and handpan.
In only one year she managed to play shows in such major concert venues in Budapest as Dürer, A38 Ship, Akvárium etc. One of her concerts was broadcast on Petőfi TV, where she also gave an interview. Elle magazine made an interview with her about her future plans. She won the Orange music tender and with that help, she is currently working on her first album, in which she intends to continue unraveling the secrecy or rather mystery found in her songs, with her characteristic illusory musical world.
The event is part of the MOL-New Europe Stage - Emerging Voices of Europe program series, supported by the MOL-New Europe Foundation.
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This concert was realised with the support of LivEurope.
Before the concert, we offer a delicious casual dinner in our panoramic restaurant:
✦ Choose any 2 courses – 9.000 HUF (Starter + Main course or Main course + Dessert)
Starters
V Chilled leek and potato cream soup
Wild garlic egg spread with toast
Hungarian Jókai bean goulash with smoked pork knuckle and sausage crumble
Main courses
Free-range chicken breast with spicy tomato salsa and seasoned crispers potatoes
Porcini tagliatelle with creamy duck liver sauce
V Smoked tofu with curry cauliflower purée and toasted seeds
Slow-roasted pork belly with sautéed cabbage gnocchi
Desserts
Steamed plum dumpling with bourbon vanilla custard
Poppy seed crumble cake with sour cherry ragout
V Strawberry and rhubarb chia pudding
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