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2500
Icelandic saxophonist Sölvi Kolbeinsson plays material from his album Collage, released by Reykjavík Record Shop in November 2025. Collage is Sölvi's first album solely with his own compositions. It is experimental jazz, inspired by his stay in Berlin and Copenhagen as well as moving back home to Iceland. The songs are variable and represent different moments, images, each with its own atmosphere and strong character traits. Together, the images create a whole and that leads us to the album title. Along with Sölvi are guitarist Hilmar Jensson and percussionist Magnús Trygvason Eliassen. The trio is an extension of Sölvi´s and Magnús´s duo. They were paired with Hilmar at the 2020 Reykjavík Jazz Festival and played a great concert there. At first, they played their favourite songs by others, but the focus soon shifted to Sölvi's compositions. After playing more concerts and rehearsing, they went into the studio in December 2024.
Now there is an album out and more on the way!
Sölvi Kolbeinsson (b. 1996) is an Icelandic saxophonist and composer. He studied classical saxophone at the Reykjavík School of Music and rhythmic studies at the FÍH School of Music and the Jazz-Institut Berlin, from where he graduated with a BA in the summer of 2019. He is a member of many different groups in Iceland and beyond. These include a duo with drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, Mánudjass, Camus quartet, Ari Árelíus, La bomba, Guiding star orchestra, Hamamelidae, Volcano bjorn and Windisch quartet. Sölvi has played at jazz festivals in Canada, Germany, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, as well as having performed in many other countries. Sölvi has released three albums of his own compositions: Collage (2025), Live in Berlin (2022) and August (2021). He received the Icelandic Music Award in 2016 as the brightest hope in the Jazz and Blues category. Sölvi has been teaching saxophone and clarinet at the Grafarvogur School Orchestra and Sigursveinn Music School since 2023.
