It was cold and certainly dark when the opening concert of the Dark Music Days (Myrkir Músikdagar) took place in end of January in Reykjavík. The concert was the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to the festival at their “home” concert hall Eldborg in Harpa. The orchestra offered a selection of works, all of which were premiering in Iceland, under the firm direction of the newly appointed chief conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov.