Konserthuset Stockholm

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Anna Riikonen plays the flute for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, and also has principal responsibility for the piccolo. Together with pianist Magnus Sköld, she will present an exquisite programme of classical flute music by Schubert and Debussy, as well as several newer pieces that truly take advantage of the incredible register of the flute.

Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski has said that it is important to her for music to have “space and clarity.” She has established herself as one of Finland’s most acclaimed composers. At this concert we will hear her atmospherically inspiring and tonally innovative Ilmakehästä (From Atmosphere).

Between Andrea Tarrodi’s flowing Crystallites, inspired by falling snow crystals, and Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ impressionistic and dense Secret Beauty of Waters, both of which are piano pieces, Anna Riikonen will play Tweet for solo piccolo. Inspired by the song of the robin, which floated in through composer Daniel Dorff’s open window, this is a masterful and beautiful piece in the very highest register.

The father of Swedish music Johan Helmich Roman’s work is in focus at this Ringing Academy, presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Legendary conductor Ton Koopman talks to conductor Olof Boman and Eva Helenius, the author of an upcoming biography on Roman.

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Numerous resonant examples will be included, alongside a discussion of the period surrounding Roman’s music and how it has sounded throughout the centuries.

In addition, information will be presented on the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s major initiative to make all of Roman’s music available within the framework of Levande Musikarv (Swedish Musical Heritage).

This Ringing Academy is part of the celebration of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s 250-year anniversary. Read more about the festivities under way throughout the anniversary year here (opens in a new window)

In cooperation with Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien (opens in a new window)

This concert will take place 21 October

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A new chapter in Peter Asplund's portrait series of the great songwriters. Jacob Christoffersen and Viktoria Tolstoy invited guests.

After the musical portraits of Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Harry Warren, it's time for the most well-known of them all: George Gershwin, the man behind the ever-green Summertime – among many others.

This evening Peter Asplund has his constant companion bassist Hans Andersson and drummer Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay with him. And as always in the Songwriters' Guide there are two specially invited guests.

"To make Gershwin justice I have invited a couple of favorites: the Danish pianist Jacob Christoffersen and Viktoria Tolstoy, one of Sweden's absolute greatest jazz singers," says Peter Asplund.

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The young Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan is exceptionally talented. She was born in 2007 and has already performed at many of the most prestigious venues, including Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Berliner Philharmonie. World-renowned pianist Grigory Sokolov elevates her to new heights and she has performed solos with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the symphony orchestra at the Moscow Conservatory, where she is still a student. Here, she will play Beethoven’s charming and elegant Piano Concerto No. 2.

The conductor will be Baroque specialist Ton Koopman, who will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Johan Helmich Roman – often referred to as the father of Swedish music. And with good reason. After travelling through Europe, where he was influenced by Handel and Italian music, he returned to Sweden and built up our increasingly rich musical scene. He is best known for Drottningholm Music, but here, we will hear one of his most beautiful, elegant, and melodically vivid sinfonias.

Just like Roman’s Sinfonia, Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 begins with a slow section that transitions into an allegro. Mozart composed the symphony in the autumn of 1783, after visiting friend and patron Count von Thun in Linz, where he also organised a concert. Because he had not taken any music with him on the trip, in just two days he composed this symphony which, naturally, is called “Linz”.