After studying at upper secondary school Södra Latins Gymnasium with Ann-Sofi Klingberg, Pontus Carron was accepted at the Royal College of Music, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in spring 2015. He has spent the past few years in the master’s programme at the Royal College of Music/Edsberg, and this performance is his diploma concert.

Over the years, Pontus Carron has won prizes in international piano competitions such as ”Citta di San Doná di Piave Piano Competition” and Stockholm International Music Competition and received numerous scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Swedish Order of Freemasons to name a few. He has performed in all of the Nordic countries, Germany, Spain and Italy, and been a soloist with orchestras such as Matteus symphony orchestra and Edberg’s chamber orchestra. He is also a highly active and frequently engaged chamber musician, and he has participated in festivals including the Båstad Chamber Music Festival and the Sandviken Chamber Music Festival, and together with the cellist Kristina Winiarski received 3^rd prize in the Swedish International Duo Competition 2017.

At this concert, he will perform four preludes by Claude Debussy, music by Slovenian composer Ana Kazimic and three personal favourites from Franz Schubert’s Six Moments Musicaux. As the final component before the intermission, we will also hear Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 1, written by the composer at the age of 16.

Clarinetist, conductor and host Martin Fröst and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra have had a close partnership for many years. The intent is to find new ways to present and combine music, all within a thematically cohesive entity.

First up in this multi-year project was Dollhouse in 2013. That performance was followed in 2015 by Genesis, a project that resulted in the album Roots (Sony Classical).

Retrotopia is the final performance in this multi-year, highly acclaimed and popular partnership.

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.

Clarinetist, conductor and host Martin Fröst and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra have had a close partnership for many years. The intent is to find new ways to present and combine music, all within a thematically cohesive entity.

First up in this multi-year project was Dollhouse in 2013. That performance was followed in 2015 by Genesis, a project that resulted in the album Roots (Sony Classical).

Retrotopia is the final performance in this multi-year, highly acclaimed and popular partnership.