David Johnson has been principal violist of the Iceland Symphony and the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, and a member of the Freimann Quartet.

In 1996, he appeared in front of a half-empty Carnegie Hall with the Iceland Symphony.

He returned to New York's Carnegie Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center that same year with the Iceland Symphony as their Music Director during their North American tour.

They lived in Iceland for several years (they now reside in Switzerland), and in 1969, Mr. Ashkenazy began his conducting career on the podium of the Iceland Symphony.

Two years later he conducted the Iceland Symphony at Carnegie; I don't ever expect to hear Sibelius's Second Symphony played more powerfully than it was that night.

In October 2000, she was heard as soloist with the Iceland Symphony on a 15-city North American tour, highlighted by concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center.

He was chief conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta in Finland from 1990 to 1992 and of the Iceland Symphony from 1993 to 1996.

BIS, the Iceland Symphony, and the Icelandic Music Information Centre gave kind permission for its use.

The island nation had no full-time orchestra until the founding of the Iceland Symphony in 1950.

As a concert with the Iceland Symphony at Carnegie Hall confirmed last February, Mr. Vanska is one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Sibelius.