Við Djúpið - Music Festival in Ísafjörður

The annual music festival and summer courses Við Djúpið are held in the West Fjords of Iceland around summer solstice, offering series of concerts and master classes. The master classes are held in close cooperation with the Iceland Academy of the Arts, and are accredited by it´s Department of Music. 

Ísafjörður is a small fishing town in the West Fjords (north west) of Iceland and is one of the northern-most towns in the country with around 3000 inhabitants. The first few things that would come to the mind of an Icelander, if you ask him what Ísafjörður is all about, are fish, rich music life, skiing, and mountainous landscape. These four elements have shaped Ísafjörður and its habitants for centuries. The music tradition has been a strong factor in the town since the foundation of the first music school in the country in 1911 and the Ísafjörður Music School has been at the center of it. The school is very active and there is hardly a family in the town, which hasn’t had kids in the school at one time or another. The school´s goal is to provide general music education and open the wonderful world of music to everybody. Several Icelandic professional musicians have started their education there.