Konserthuset Stockholm

Since 2016, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO) offers one year of training on site at Konserthuset Stockholm. The RSPO Orchestra Academy aims to give participating students heightened knowledge and understanding of the profession by giving them the possibility to work with – and alongside – one of Europe’s leading symphony orchestras.

The students will receive individual tuition on their instrument by tutors that are predominantly leaders and principals of the orchestra. In addition, extensive chamber music playing is a vital part of the course as well as seminars in stage presence and orchestral praxis.

Participating as well in this concert are students of the University College of Operahögskolan Stockholm.

Konserthuset’s big band is a new experience every time. For each performance, band leaders Peter Asplund and Magnus Lindgren both assemble a group of instrumentalists who will give character to the selected theme. This time the band is composed of the young Swedish jazz elite – and as a guest artist, we will hear Amanda Ginsburg, a new rising star among Swedish jazz singers and winner of a Swedish Grammy Award 2019 for the album Jag har funderat på en sak (”I've Been Thinking About Something”). Tonight’s theme: Younger Than Springtime.

“I let my sound bask in the musical language of Nordic melancholy. My goal is to carefully safeguard the legacy of some of the most beloved names in Swedish jazz and songs,” says Amanda Ginsburg who was nominated Newcomer of the Year by P2 Jazzkatten, Swedish Radio’s annual tribute to Swedish jazz. She was lauded in the press for her first full-length album. Inspired by Swedish icons such as Monica Zetterlund and Jan Johansson, and with a few splashes of humour from Hasse and Tage, Amanda Ginsburg conveys with unerring musical jazz sensibility something both direct and deeply personal.

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The Stockholm Concert Hall at Hötorget is one of Sweden’s great architectural masterpieces. Created during a period of expansion in Stockholm, by the Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom, it opened in 1926. The Stockholm Concert Hall was built for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has since the start been the dedicated venue for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony as well as many other prestigious events.

The tour is in Swedish.

Since its inception in 1984, the Norwegian Vertavo String Quartet has established itself as one of the top quartets in the world. The quartet has its own concert subscription in Oslo and tours Europe, Japan and the US. The quartet has performed on concert stages including Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Barbican and Kings Place in London, and has also appeared at the annual Aldeburgh Festival.

Here, the ensemble performs music by three composers who have all been pioneers in various ways. Joseph Haydn experimented with form and content and developed both the symphony and the string quartet; Elfrida Andrée was a female progenitor of nineteenth century Sweden and Beethoven blasted through the traditional frameworks of the string quartet.

When Haydn planned a new journey to England in the early 1790s, he composed a handful of symphonies, music for piano and the six quartets dedicated to Count Anton Apponyi. This music, with its exquisite balance and extroverted energy, comprises a highlight of Viennese classical music.

Elfrida Andrée composed chamber music and symphonic pieces, and was active as an orchestra conductor. The fact that her major role models were Beethoven, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Schubert can be heard in this marvellous quartet from 1887. Its world premiere was given by four female string musicians in 1895, which was the first time in the Nordic region that a string quartet composed by a woman was performed by female musicians.

Beethoven’s string quartet, Opus 131, is from his later period. It is as if in the music, he is seeking freedom for thought and soul. Perhaps this is also why this piece speaks to us so powerfully, with its warmth, imagination and intensity, across all historical barriers.