Einar Bárðarson, born on 18 March 1972, is an Icelandic entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. He is currently the managing director of Believer Music Group in the United Kingdom, and also owns a large part of Concert Ltd, one of Iceland's largest music events and artist management companies. Einar is married to Ãslaug Thelma Einarsdóttir, born on 11 August 1975, Director corporate communications Icelandair Group. They have one daughter, Klara Þorbjörg, born on 12 May 2006. Einar Bardarson, Promoter, manager and producerCONCERT REYKJAVIK
Einar is the owner and operator of Concert, the leading concert promotional company in Iceland. Concert is also a music PR company as well as Iceland’s leading management company. It is a home to many of Iceland's leading bands such as Todmobile, Nylon, Skitamorall, Izafold. Also representing solo artist from classical music to pop.THE WORLDSTAGE
Einar has been working with the worlds leading opera singer, dame Kiri Te Kanawa in 2005. Einar also works for Yoko Ono on various projects that the Yoko has going in Iceland related to the LENNON & YOKO foundation and the Piece Tower that’s being build in Videy this year in cooperation with city of Reykjavik. In October 2005, Einar was ranked one of three most influential persons in Icelandic music industry by Frettabladid (The Newspaper), Iceland's biggest newspaper, circulation: 73% of the population. The list included bands as Sigurrós and musicians such as Mugison among others.ICELANDIC MUSIC AWARDS
Einar was the producer of the Icelandic Music Awards for four consecutive years resigning only to put more time into his own companies. In his last year of service he was awarded a special award from the Icelandic Music Awards board of directors for services rendered to Icelandic Music Industry.Einar has been a council to the Ministry of Culture on various topics regarding the Icelandic Music industry as well as the City of Reykjavik.PLAN B - REYKJAVIK
In 2005, Einar started his own record label PlanB. The label has released four albums in its first year and all four albums were among the top sellers in the country that year. One of them was the classical album “Cortes†that became the fastest selling record of all times in Iceland.BELIEVER MUSIC LONDON
This January, Einar led a group of investors to start a record label in Great Britain. The label is called Believer and started business in 2006. First artist to be signed to the label, the girl group Nylon have reached number 1 on the Uk dance charts and toured with acts such as Westlife, Girls Alloud and McFly.Einar has just gotten investors on board finance is next major recording project which is the multy platinum Icelandic tenor Gardar Thor Cortes. The investors as betting I million uk pounds on the project.
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