Cinematic, colorful, rhythmic –
these are some ways to describe
Tobias Broström's music, which
is performed worldwide. Now
Broström is presented in this
year's Composer Weekend, with
orchestral music, solo concertos
and chamber music. Including two
world premieres!
29 March–2 April
External organiser: Nordiska Musikgymnasiet
Friday 31 March 2023 18.00
External organiser: Nordiska Musikgymnasiet
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Enjoy a huge springtime boost! Come to Nordiska Musikgymnasiet’s concert in Grünewald Hall. Entrance is free! The programme features several musical experiences in various chamber music constellations. There will also be music for string orchestra and choir.
Nordiska Musikgymnasiet is an independent upper-secondary school with an emphasis on classical music. In its 20 years in operation, it has become established as one of Sweden’s leading upper-secondary programmes in music. Young rising stars such as cellist Hanna Dahlkvist, conductor Emil Eliasson, organist Joakim Andersson, soprano Annie Ternström, violinist Johan Dalene, pianist Sebastian Iivonen and more all attended this school.
The cutting-edge aesthetics school offers professional training in music, in addition to complete upper-secondary studies. Nordiska Musikgymnasiet accepts students from throughout Sweden, the Nordic region, and the rest of Europe. Students are admitted for all acoustic instruments, singing, composition and conducting.
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Friday 31 March 2023 19.00
Tobias Broström. Photo: Nicklas Raab
Håkan Hardenberger
Johannes Gustavsson
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planTobias Broström is known for his rhythmically powerful music, colourful orchestration and distinctive sense of harmonics. His richly associative, nearly cinematic narrative compositions are performed by orchestras all over the world. Now he is at the centre of Konserthuset Stockholm’s Composer Weekend 2023.
At this inaugural concert, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will give the world premiere of a newly composed opening piece. We also hear the trumpet concerto Lucernaris, written for internationally renowned trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, who is also the soloist.
The title Lucernaris refers to a Catholic lamp-lighting ceremony. Broström describes the piece as a journey from darkness to light, both on an overall poetic level – between darkness and light, cold and warmth – but also specifically musically, between soloist and orchestra.
The first symphony had its world premiere in 2022 and was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This is its second performance.
The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
Experience one of Sweden's architectural masterpieces, and the venue for the Nobel Price Award Ceremony.
Saturday 1 April 2023 13.00
Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Experience one of Sweden's architectural masterpieces, and the venue for the Nobel Price Award Ceremony.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Konserthuset Stockholm 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. Konserthuset Stockholm 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.
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Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Meeting point in the box office, entrance from Sveavägen.
Two solo concertos in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Saturday 1 April 2023 15.00
Tobias Broström. Photo: Nicklas Raab
Corinna Niemeyer. Photo: Simon Pauly
Karen Gomyo
Two solo concertos in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planTobias Broström is known for his rhythmically powerful music, colourful orchestration and distinctive sense of harmonics. His richly associative, nearly cinematic narrative compositions are performed by orchestras all over the world. Now he is at the centre of Konserthuset Stockholm’s Composer Weekend 2023.
In Transit Underground, we encounter several of Tobias Broström’s characteristic musical traits – urban, outwardly oriented, rhythmically charged music and an imaginative use of all the orchestra’s possible sounds. When Tobias Broström was composer-in-residence with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in 2006–2009, he met Karen Gomyo, who was in Gävle to play Bo Linde’s Violin Concerto. That culminated in a collaboration and this lyrical, masterful violin concerto.
For a brief time in the early 1890s, Erik Satie was involved in the secret Rosicrucian Order, whose ideas came from Egypt in the time of the pharaohs, Renaissance alchemy and mysticism. The result was evocative music to Le fils des étoiles, the Son of the Stars, a drama by the French mystic Joseph-Aime Péladan. Broström has turned Satie’s music into a dazzling orchestral work.
Tobias Broström is a trained percussionist, which meant it was also natural to compose a virtuosic, explosive percussion concerto – although not for himself, but for his peer Johan Bridger. Bridger won the 2004 Soloist Prize, with the statement: “For an intensely personal style, brilliant technical mastery and overpowering stage presence.”
The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
