Helgi Jónsson

Helgi Jónsson is an Icelandic singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work centres on voice, piano and trombone. Alongside his solo work, he has a longstanding musical partnership with Tina Dickow.

His voice and trombone feature prominently on Nico Muhly’s Mothertongue and on Scent Opera by Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson. He has toured extensively as part of the collective and appears in the Whale Watching Tour concert film.

In 2023, Helgi released Mutter Courage with Valgeir Sigurðsson on Bedroom Community: songs and score for the National Theatre of Iceland’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, with Brecht’s texts translated by Bjarni Jónsson.