A new management team has been hired to run the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, where construction has been progressing rapidly over the last few weeks (image from April this year). Karitas Kjartansdóttir has been chosen as the conference programme manager, Páll S. Ragnarsson has been hired as technical lighting director and Ingvar Jónsson has been selected for technical sound director.

Karitas worked previously as a business manager in asset management at VBS investment bank, and before that as sales manager for conferences at Icelandair Hotels. She has a BSc in business from the University of Iceland and an MBA from Reykjavík University.

Páll has recently been working as lighting engineer and designer for the Icelandic Opera, and for many years before that at the National Theatre in the same profession. Altogether, Páll has been working in lighting design and engineering for over thirty years. Páll has a master’s in electrical engineering.

Ingvar was formerly a designer and consultant for engineering firm Verkís and Exton ehf. for a number of years. In addition, Invgar has been a freelance sound engineer for many years. Ingvar has a BSc in technology from the Reykjavík University and is currently working on his master’s in sound engineering at Álaborg University.

Source: mbl.is
Image: borkur.net

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