Real name: Guðrún Sigríður Birgisdóttir

Guðrún S. Birgisdóttir (Guðrún Sigríður Birgisdóttir) 03.02.1956 / Icelandic.

Gudrún Birgisdóttir studied the flute with Manuela Wiesler at the Reykjavík Conservatory of Music, Per Öien at the Oslo University of Music, and Fernand Caratgé at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, where she graduated as a soloist in 1979. She then received a scholarship from the French State to take private lessons with Raymond Guiot, and Pierre-Yves Artaud.

Gudrun has received many acknowledgements for her playing, among them the first prize in the chamber music contest of UFAM in Paris.She has been invited to play solos with orchestras at home and abroad.

She has worked in Iceland since 1982, as soloist and musical instructor, and performed with many musical groups beside making recordings and being a flutist of the Icelandic Opera company for many years. She has played many concerts on the continent of Europe, for instance in Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Ljubljana, and Vienna, and also in the U.S.A. and Mexico.

Gudrun plays music of the 17th and 18th centuries on the baroque flute, but she has also been active in encouraging the composing of new Icelandic pieces.