Programme

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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Academy is an advanced special academic programme for young musicians. The programme is presented on site at Konserthuset Stockholm and carried out in collaboration with the Piteå School of Music at Luleå University of Technology. Section leaders from the orchestra are the teachers and supervisors during this one-year programme. The programme incorporates individual teaching on each instrument, and orchestral and chamber music performance.

In just a few years, the Orchestra Academy has become one of the foremost seedbeds for young musicians; after finishing their year of study, the majority of students win entrance performances to both Swedish and international orchestras.

In a number of public chamber music concerts – like this one – the audience has an opportunity to better get to know and hear these young musicians.

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Terra Magna is a performance in which narratives from some of the world’s natural environments portray connections between humankind and nature. This is the third performance within the framework of a series of productions by Alexandrov Klum in partnership with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Konserthuset Stockholm. 

Artist duo Alexandrov Klum consists of the internationally known photographer and filmmaker Mattias Alexandrov Klum and the artist Iris Alexandrov Klum. Together, they have created art projects with themes associated with environmental issues and stories from philosophy, science and mythology.

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When philharmonic musicians Johan Fransén, Mikael Sjögren and Stefan Lindgren perform music for clarinet, cello and piano at the Soup Concert this Friday, the focus will be entirely on French composer Gabriel Fauré.

Pavane, a chivalrous dance in true Belle époque style, was originally a piano piece but is better known in the version for orchestra and choir. As such, it has been performed, among other places, at a spectacular party in the Bois de Boulogne – the huge park in Paris.

Berceuse means lullaby and even though Fauré did not consider this little piece to be particularly important, it became a monumental success that was played everywhere, from small cafés to international stages. Après un rêve from 1878 also became highly beloved, especially in Pablo Casal’s arrangement for cello and piano from 1910. This wordless song is about an imaginary romantic journey with a beloved.

Sicilienne was originally an orchestral piece for a theatrical production that never came to be, so Fauré arranged the music for cello and piano instead. The concluding trio had its world premiere in 1923 in celebration of the composer’s 73rd birthday. Fauré wrote it in Annecy-le-Vieux where he was resting after a trying lung inflammation.

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Terra Magna is a performance in which narratives from some of the world’s natural environments portray connections between humankind and nature. This is the third performance within the framework of a series of productions by Alexandrov Klum in partnership with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Konserthuset Stockholm. 

Artist duo Alexandrov Klum consists of the internationally known photographer and filmmaker Mattias Alexandrov Klum and the artist Iris Alexandrov Klum. Together, they have created art projects with themes associated with environmental issues and stories from philosophy, science and mythology.

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In a unique collaboration with S:t Jacob’s Kammarkör, Orpheus Baroque is now realizing the dream of performing Georg Friedrich Handel’s incredible cantata, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day. Conducted by Gary Graden. The soloists are Maria Keohane and Anders J. Dahlin.

Since the formation of Orpheus Baroque in 2015 by Baroque-loving members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the ensemble has also developed into an important meeting place for some of Sweden’s leading Baroque musicians. The ensemble plays period instruments and since it was founded, violinist Elin Gabrielsson (member of, among other things, Italian Europa Galante) has served as concertmaster and cellist Johannes Rostamo (solo cellist for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra) has served as artistic director. 

Concerts with Orpheus Baroque often feature guest performances by top international musicians in early music. The ensemble has been led by Manfredo Kramer, Dan Laurin, Peter Spissky and Luca Guglielmi.

Due to the corona virus, Chucho Valdés has chosen to cancel the concert on April 5. The same goes for the supporting act Samuel Yirga. They deeply regret that they had to make this decision.

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The Cuban jazz icon concludes this year’s Selam Festival Stockholm

Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés has won five Grammy awards and three Latin Grammy awards. In the past 50 years he has been the leading inspiration in Afro-Cuban jazz. Now we will get to hear him at one of this year’s most highly anticipated concerts. Bringing to the table his newly released album Jazz Bata 2, he will conclude the Selam Festival Stockholm.

When Chucho Valdes recorded his album Jazz Batá in 1972, he used the batá, a sacred Cuban hourglass-shaped drum, instead of a drum kit. The deep dive into Cuba’s musical history was considered a deviation from his earlier recordings. With the combination of jazz and traditional rhythms from the sacred batá, Chucho Valdés showed his virtuosity and laid the stylistic foundation for what would become his historic group, Irakere, an ensemble that delineated the eras before and after Afro-Cuban jazz. Chucho was the founder of Irakere, as well as the pianist, primary composer and arranger for over 30 years.

In late 2018, he released the acclaimed Jazz Batá 2, in which Chucho returned once again to his Afro-Cuban musical heritage.

Support: Samuel Yirga

Ethiopian jazz has become a global phenomenon with primary figures like Mulatu Astatke. The younger and more contemporary jazz scene of Ethiopia is also strongly on the rise, and pianist and composer Samuel Yirga is at the forefront. His music is a fusion of Ethio-jazz, soul, funk and classical music, in which the Ethiopian azmari tradition is a constant presence in the sound. His debut album Guzo was released in 2012 on Peter Gabriel’s label Real World Records.

This exclusive solo concert is Samuel Yirga’s first in Sweden.

The concerts are part of Selam Festival Stockholm 2020.

External promoter: Selam

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String trio ZPR was founded by Cecilia Zilliacus on violin, Johanna Persson on viola and Kati Raitinen on cello. The trio continuously works to explore the string trio repertoire and collaborates often and gladly with composers who are active today. Monday At Last is the concert subscription in which ZPR, now for the eleventh year in a row, invites guest artists to present newer and older music with them, often in close contact with the audience. 

This time around, ZPR welcomes Finnish accordion player Janne Rättyä. He was the first ever to give his own accordion recital in Berlin’s major concert hall, Philharmonie. That was in 2002, and since then he has appeared on many of the world’s major concert stages. We will hear him here in several pieces, including fellow countryman Magnus Lindberg’s Jeux d’anches for solo accordion and Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for violin and accordion. This evening’s big event is the world premiere of Kalevi Aho’s Quartet for accordion, violin, viola and cello.

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In connecton with an upcoming biography about the composer Laura Netzel, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music presents a conversation with the book’s author, Camilla Hambro, and music researcher Christina Tobeck. It will cover the time and society in which Netzel was active, being a woman in the nineteenth-century music scene, and living under a pseudonym.

As part of the presentation, live music by Netzel will be performed by the pianist Inese Klotina, singer Hillevi Martinpelto and violinist Tobias Ringborg.

In partnership with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

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Lars-Erik Larsson’s highly popular lyrical suite God in Disguise, with lyrics from Hjalmar Gullberg’s collection of poetry Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (Love in the Twentieth Century) had its world premiere in April 1940. The music was composed for radio and intended for a radio audience (both Larsson and Gullberg worked for Radio Sweden at the time). Gullberg was inspired by ancient mythology: the god Apollo was punished with having to wander in disguise among humankind on earth. Based on this notion, Gullberg commented on his contemporary era: he was powerfully affected by the persecution of Jews in Germany. Since its world premiere on the radio in the middle of the raging war, God in Disguise has become a Swedish concert classic – a piece that tells the story of shared humanity and which inspires hope as keenly today as it did then.

Igor Stravinsky created his ballet music for Pulcinella based on several pieces by the eighteenth-century Italian composer Pergolesi. This music, equal parts refined and elegant, was a huge success when the ballet had its world premiere in 1920. We are now far from the expressionistic Stravinsky who scandalized audiences with his Rite of Spring in 1913; this music dances forth with light footsteps instead. Two years later, Stravinsky created this concert suite in nine short movements. Like Pulcinella by Stravinsky, Serenade for Strings by Dag Wirén is said to be in the so-called neoclassical style of the twentieth century. The serenade is light and melodic, and bubbles with early summer atmosphere. This is Wirén’s most popular piece.

Conductor Tabita Berglund studied cello under Truls Mørk, and played with ensembles including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra before switching to conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Since 2015, her primary focus has been on conducting and in 2018 she was among the prizewinners of the Neeme Järvi Prize at Gstaad Conducting Academy. This is her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

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The Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble was born in 2012 from an ambition to create concert experiences that are free from the conventions of chamber music.

Their repertoire is broad and rich with contrasts, and Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble often bases its concerts on, for example, a course of events or a state of mind.

The members of the Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble have prominent positions in Stockholm’s orchestras and their own solo careers.