Ásgerður Júníusdóttir, mezzo-soprano, has appeared as a singer and actress in concerts, plays, and arts festivals in Venice, Reykjavík, London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, and elsewhere in Europe. In her career she has focused on 20th- and 21st-century Icelandic music and premiered works by numerous contemporary composers, including Jórunn Viðar, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Haukur Tómasson, Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Ragnhildur Gísladóttir, and Peter Bruun, as well as worked with different music ensembles such as the English Brodsky Quartet.

She has released three CDs. Her first two Minn heimur og þinn (Tapestry of dreams, 2001), which contains songs and poems by Icelandic women and Í rökkri (At Twilight, 2006), containing songs by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, were both nominated for the Icelandic Music Award. Her latest CD, Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga (Far beyond the remotest forests), with songs by Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson and Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson was released in the summer of 2011 great acclaim.

Among the parts that Ásgerður has sung on stage are those of Carmen in George Bizet’s opera of the same name at the Municipal Theater in Reykjavík (2006), the title role in the premiere production of Madonna Furiosa by Bertil Palmar Johansen, and the Shadow Princess in Skuggaleikur (Play of Shadows, 2006) by Karólína Eiríksdóttir. She has also acted and sung in the mono-opera The Medium (2009) by sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the plays Common Nonsense (2004) and Ball of Yarn (2009).