KIMI is a Copenhagen based trio comprising Katerina Anagnostidou (percussion), Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (accordion) and Þórgunnur Anna Örnólfsdóttir (voice).
KIMI performs new music, having commissioned numerous works for their unique instrumentation by composers such as Hugi Guðmundsson, Nikki Martin, Þuríður Jónsdóttir, Christos Farmakis and Finnur Karlsson. KIMI has performed at several festivals, such as NJORD biennale, Akureyri Art Summer, and Skálholt Summer Concerts, where they were ensemble-in-residence. Their concert at Skálholt was nominated for Concert of the year at the Iceland Music Awards 2021 in the category classical and contemporary music. Their recording of Bittersweet by Nikki Martin will be released as an EP by Dacapo Records in 2022. KIMI composes folk-inspired original works, mostly based on melodies from their native countries Iceland and Greece.
KIMI’s next project premieres new Icelandic works composed for the group where strong female characters from Icelandic and Greek literature play a leading role.
The cellist/composer Andrew Power and accordionist/composer Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson founded EKKI MINNA Duo in 2017. EKKI MINNA performs, curates, and collaborates. Via their multifaceted interdisciplinary approach, they discover and share genre-fluid avenues of expression and communication. They consciously expand the accordion/cello formation beyond instrumentation into something introspective and conscious. They have been described as “self-consciously quirky” and “melt[ing] us all, via choreography, into another plain altogether.” The duo have premiered works by composers such as Mads Emil Dreyer, Áslaug Magnúsdóttir and Loïc Destremau. They have also produced several concerts, collaborating with Christian Winther Christensen, Marta Śniady, Stefan Prins and ensemble K!ART among others.
They are currently working on an album with tonmeister Sebastian V Olsen.
The Icelandic accordion trio ítríó was founded in the autumn of 2015 in Copenhagen. Its members are Helga Kristbjörg Guðmundsdóttir, Jón Þorsteinn Reynisson and Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson. In 2016 ítríó won 2nd place in the international accordion competition Pif-Castelfidardo in Italy. A year later ítríó won 1st prize in the Royal Danish Academy of Music chamber music competition.
ítríó’s program is varied and contains works from different periods and styles, including new music, baroque, traditional, atmospheric and rhythmic/minimalist music. Several composers have written works for the trio, e.g. Finnur Karlsson, Jens Peter Møller, Hafdís Bjarnadóttir and Friðrik Margrétar-Guðmundsson.