Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir (born 1985) is an Icelandic violinist. Elfa Rún came to international prominence through her victory at the

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in Leipzig in 2006, where she won the Grand Prize, the Audience Prize and a special prize awarded to the youngest finalist. Elfa Rún has also won several awards at the Icelandic Music Awards, including the Performer of the Year award in 2012 and the Album of the Year award in 2015 for her recording of the works of

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. In 2015, Elfa Rún was nominated for the

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Elfa Rún's work in historically informed performance of Baroque music has been well received, and she is an active member of

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. After finishing her studies in her native Iceland with a diploma from

Iceland Academy of the Arts Iceland University of the Arts ( ) is an Icelandic institution of higher art education, located in Reykjavík, which offers the only university-level degrees in the arts in Iceland.Lisa Z. ValdimarsdottirIceland Academy of the Arts, Department of ...

, Elfa studied in Freiburg and Leipzig under the tutelage of Rainer Kussmaul an Carolin Widmann.

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