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Alexander Lüken from Germany wins prestigious Eric Ericson Award

At the final concert of the Eric Ericson Award competition in the Swedish Radio Concert Hall Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the German conductor Alexander Lüken was elected winner of the competition, by an international jury. The prize consists of engagements with ten European radio choirs and a prize sum of 100 000 Swedish kronor (10.000 Euros) awaits the winner.Alexander Lüken, winner of the Eric Ericson Award 2024. Here with the two other finalists Heide Müller (Germany) and Marcel Ortega i Martí (Spain). Photo: Arne Hyckenberg The Jury’s citation reads: “From all the talent we

Ninety young choral conductors applied for the Eric Ericson Award – eight semi-finalists chosen

Young choral conductors from around the world applied to the Eric Ericson Award 2024. The selection committee has now chosen eight semi-finalists to compete in Stockholm in October: Simon Arlasjö (Sweden), João Barros (Portugal), Jurgita Česonytė (Lithuania), Anastasija Kildiša (Latvia), Alexander Lüken (Germany), Heide Müller (Germany), Marcel Ortega i Martí (Spain) and Joe Tobin (UK).The eight semifinalists in the Eric Ericson Award 2024.The fifth edition of the Eric Ericson Award takes place 23–26 October 2024 in Stockholm with semi-finals at the Royal College of Music and a

The Swedish Radio Choir turns 100 – Daniel Harding's finale – Berwaldhallen releases new concert season

A new concert season with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir in Berwaldhallen is coming up, with theme of “Love and Death” running like a common thread throughout. Daniel Harding makes his last season as Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Choir celebrates its 100th jubilee. The season begins with the Baltic Sea Festival, featuring world-renowned artists such as pianist Yuja Wang, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. Visions and dreams are recurring themes in the festival programme. See

A topical opera and star pianist Yuja Wang – highlights of the 2024 Baltic Sea Festival

Esa-Pekka Salonen, star pianist Yuja Wang, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Choir, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra are some of the highlights of the programme announced today, as tickets for the 2024 Baltic Sea Festival go on sale. With nine days of concerts, talks, workshops and art, the festival addresses the challenges of our time and aims to bring hope for the future. The Baltic Sea Festival 2024 opens on August 23rd with a concert version of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina. It is based on an actual, turbulent episode in Russian history that

Researchers and composers announced for the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab 2024

The Baltic Sea Festival's partners Stockholm University, Voksenåsen Music Academies and Formas have selected twelve international participants for a new round of the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab – where research is presented in specially composed music. Six composers and six researchers have been selected to participate in the 2024 edition of the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab. Together with director Elisabet Ljungar, the researchers and composers create works that combine Baltic Sea-related research with specially composed music. This year's themes are viability and circularity.

Maxim Emelyanychev and Krista Audere new Principal Guest Conductors of Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir

Two internationally renowned conductors, Maxim Emelyanychev and Krista Audere, are appointed to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir respectively as Principal Guest Conductors. This gives them the opportunity to work and develop together with the ensembles over time. Maxim Emelyanychev and Krista Audere, new Principal Guest Conductors for the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Choir respectively. “This is an opportunity for further development and to secure good collaborations for the future. I am convinced that our two new Principal

Prestigious Eric Ericson Award for Young Choral Conductors 2024 opens for applications

Applications are open as of today for the Eric Ericson Award, a prestigious international competition for young choral conductors. The event will take place at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall Berwaldhallen on 23­–26 October 2024, the finalists are invited to conduct the Swedish Radio Choir. The total amount awarded is SEK 150,000 and the winner will lead several prominent radio choirs within the EBU over the coming concert seasons. This makes the Eric Ericson Award the most prestigious competition for choral conductors in the world. The competition is arranged by the Swedish Radio, in

The Baltic Sea Festival is looking for musical collaborations with young scientists

Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab is a new Baltic Sea Festival event at the Swedish Radio concert hall Berwaldhallen jointly produced with Stockholm University and Voksenåsen Music Academies. Through this project nine young scientists from the Baltic Sea Region will be paired with nine young composers. Together, they will turn scientific research into music that will be performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra during the Baltic Sea Festival 2023. Now open for applications. Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab brings together composers, scientists and musicians during the 2023

The 20th Baltic Sea Festival Focuses on Music and Education

The Baltic Sea Festival is more relevant than ever as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. The many sustainability challenges that are facing the nations bordering the Baltic Sea will be communicated through music and exceptional concert events featuring international stars who will perform new and familiar works. The audience will also be invited to participate in existential discussions. This year, the festival focuses on the importance of education in achieving sustainability through the democratic process.[stersjfestivalen fyller 20 r] From left: Esa-Pekka Salonen, photo: Andrew

A letter from Daniel Harding – stays as Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra until 2025

Daniel Harding extends his contract as Music Director and Artistic Director for the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra until at least 2025. "There is no doubt that here in Stockholm, in Berwaldhallen, I have found my musical family.  The bond between us is immense and the spark that we had at the start seems only brighter and more intense." A LETTER FROM DANIEL HARDINGSince the very beginning of my conducting career, I have been surrounded by musicians, collaborators and friends of exceptional generosity, talent and wisdom. I understood very early on that important and lasting

Krista Audere from Latvia wins prestigious Eric Ericson Award

At the final concert of the Eric Ericson Award competition in the Swedish Radio Concert Hall Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the latvian conductor Krista Audere was elected winner of the competition, by an international jury. Harry Bradford from Great Britain and Julia Selina Blank from Germany also participated in the final. Concerts with ten European radio choirs and a prize sum of 100 000 Swedish kronor (10.000 Euros) awaits the winner. Krista Audere, winner of the Eric Ericson Award 2021. Photo: Bo Söderström The Jury’s citation reads: “With outstanding energy and a dynamic poetic

Baltic Sea Festival grand opening concert with Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with its Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen open Baltic Sea Festival on 9 September 2021. Rebirth is the theme of the whole Festival and in its opening concert, both Anders Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Fog, reimagine classical masterpieces. Salonen’s programme culminates in Sibelius Second Symphony and its heavenly apotheosis. The theme of rebirth continues through the Festival with Klaus Mäkelä and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Kaspars Putniņš Radio Choir programme focussing on the Baltic Seasons and the renewal of life.

These are the finalists for the Eric Ericson Award – the world's premier choir conductor competition

Out of more than 90 applicants, eight young conductors have progressed to the prestigious Eric Ericson Award competition, which takes place at Berwaldhallen, Swedish Radio's concert hall, in October. After one month of work, the Selection Committee has selected an international starting field with participants from Germany, Latvia, England, France and Russia. - It’s wonderful to see such a big interest, so many wanting to participate in the Eric Ericson Award. The Selection Committee has now chosen eight finalists for the competition. As you will see, there is a strong international

The Baltic Sea Festival is Back in September – music is a strong driving force in culture’s new start following the pandemic

As always, music is centre stage as the Baltic Sea Festival offers up a festival week brimming with content from the 9[th] to the 18[th] of September, with it's hoome base in the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen. This year’s festival centres on hope for the future, and the highly anticipated new beginning many of us are waiting for. A new beginning for exchange and collaboration across borders, and for conversations about the issues that bind us together. The theme is rebirth and culture’s role when society opens up again. New for this year are the Baltic Sea Studio’s daily

Bach’s St John Passion with world class soloists live from Swedish Radio Concert Hall

The St John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed in a unique way in Berwaldhallen, the concert hall of Swedish Radio on Good Friday, April 2. The performance will be available through Swedish Radio P2 and also for viewing on Berwaldhallen Play. A star cast of Swedish and international singers will participate: Julia Kleiter, Ann Hallenberg, Andrew Staples, Christian Gerhaher and Matthew Rose. Together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir, led by Music Director Daniel Harding, it will be a world class musical experience, one of a kind in these

Eric Ericson Award, the world’s most prestigious competition for young choir conductors, will be held in 2021

The Swedish Radio, in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), reinstates the Eric Ericson Award, an international competition for young choir conductors. The competition will take place in October 2021 in the Swedish Radio concert hall, Berwaldhallen, in Stockholm for the first time since 2009. The prize money amounts to SEK 150,000 and the winner will also have the opportunity to work with 11 prominent radio choirs within the EBU in upcoming concert seasons. Altogether, this makes the Eric Ericson Award the most prestigious competition

Harding, Mattei, Byström - Don Giovanni live from Swedish Radio Concert Hall

Having maintained weekly live broadcast concerts throughout the last months, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is now reunited with its Music Director Daniel Harding for his first concerts after ten weeks of quarantine and the culmination of the orchestra’s season. Joining them at home in Berwaldhallen is the Swedish Radio Choir and an elite cast of singers.­Peter Mattei, Daniel Harding and Malin Byström in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen on June 13.Daniel Harding conducts his first concert on Friday June 5 with a programme built around

This year's edition of the Baltic Sea Festival has been cancelled

The Baltic Sea Festival, which was to take place in August 2020, has been cancelled.  Even though it had been intended to make the festival a digital project, the planning conditions due to the Covid-19 outbreak have finally made that impossible. "We had prepared to present the festival digitally, even though the circumstances would have been difficult.  Since the outbreak of covid-19 prevented physical audiences in Berwaldhallen, we have anyway continued to present live concerts every week on P2 as well as web-streamed on Berwaldhallen Play;  we were pleased with the positive

Cross-border music and talks in this year’s Baltic Sea Festival

Through music and discussions, the Baltic Sea Festival wants to highlight the importance of tolerance, democracy and shared responsibility for a sustainable region. The programme spans seven festival days of first-class music and seven discussions, where some of the most interesting personalities from our region come together. The discussions, which will take place in front of audiences in cities around the Baltic Sea, are an integral part of the festival, and will be broadcast live in the host cities as well as at Berwaldhallen. Using digital technology, the festival and music can reach out

Kaspars Putniņš Appointed New Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir

Multiple award-winning Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš is appointed Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir from the 2020-21 season. It is one of the most coveted conducting positions on the international choral scene. The last Chief Conductor was Peter Dijkstra who ended his tenure in 2018, after 11 years. Kaspars Putniņš, new Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir. Photo: Mattias Ahlm / Swedish Radio Kaspars Putniņš will be the tenth conductor to hold the position as Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir. He has already worked with the Swedish Radio Choir several

The Swedish Radio Choir appoints two Conductor Laureates

Peter Dijkstra and Tõnu Kaljuste have each been appointed Conductor Laureate of the Swedish Radio Choir as of the beginning of this season. Both of them have been Chief Conductors of the Choir, a world famous ensemble and institution in Swedish music life, formed in the 1920s at the same time as its parent organization, Sveriges Radio.Peter Dijkstra and Tõnu Kaljuste, newly appointed Conductor Laureates for the Radio Choir. Photo: Arne Hyckenberg & Mikael Grönberg / SR Peter Dijkstra was the Swedish Radio Choir's Chief Conductor from 2007 to 2018 and Tõnu Kaljuste held the same

The Baltic Sea Festival presents seven personal talks on sustainability, the environment and music

What does ex-president Tarja Halonen, chief conductor Alan Gilbert, Sami pop artist Sofia Jannok and the adventurer Berta Tilmantaitė have in common? Well, they are a few of several well-known people in culture, politics and science who participate in discussions about sustainability, environment and culture during this year's Baltic Sea Festival. During seven festival days, world-class classical music is combined with seven live-streamed conversations in which some of our region's most interesting personalities meet. Our common ground is the sea that unites us - the Baltic Sea

Berwaldhallen Celebrates 40 Years with a Jubilee Season and a Pioneering Baltic Sea Festival

An innovative, international Baltic Sea Festival starts the season in Swedish Radio’s concert hall, Berwaldhallen. The 2019/2020 season of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir continues, with musical story-telling as the theme. The year of Berwaldhallen’s 40th birthday is celebrated with a number of concerts, the pinnacle being a gala concert in November. The season ends with a proper dose of Beethoven – who turns 250 this year – with Missa Solemnis and the mighty Symphony No. 9 under Daniel Harding's leadership. World-famous cellist Truls Mørk is the season’s

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