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.

Pianists Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) and Franz Liszt (1811–1886) are among the true virtuosos of music history. They were both composers and soloists and had an enormous impact on the development of piano-playing technique in the nineteenth century. They saw no conflict between virtuosity and musical expression. They endeavoured to use improved playing techniques in order to reveal new timbres and artistic potential in piano music. 

Consider, for example, the pioneering first collection of Chopin’s Etudes, which begin this concert with Kiyo Wada. Chopin was only 19 years old when he began composing the collection that was first published in 1833, when he was 23. Even the dazzling Funérailles from Franz Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses was completely revolutionary when it was first heard in 1849, which was also the year of Chopin’s death at just 39 years old.

In the twentieth century, Maurice Ravel was among the composers galvanizing the development of piano playing to new heights of virtuosity. His piano suite Gaspard de La Nuit from 1909 is one of the greatest technical challenges a pianist can face, perhaps even more so than many of Franz Liszt’s most demanding pieces.

Japanese pianist Kiyo Wada studied in France and Italy. One of the reasons she moved to Sweden was her passion for Swedish classical music. At this concert, she also talks about the programme and the Swedish music scene, which is illustrated with a few Swedish lieds performed by guest Arvid Eriksson.

The music programme of Södra Latin will conclude the season with a large concert at Konserthuset Stockholm. Naturally, the concert will reflect the school’s overarching ensemble activities, with a jazz ensemble at one end and a symphony orchestra and choir at the other. In addition, we will offer music for string orchestra, big band, concert band, and singing and instrumental ensembles.

The music programme at Södra Latin is one of Sweden’s best known upper-secondary level music programmes. The school accepts students from all over the country and has 180 music students.

This year's video game music concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra presents the timeless music from some of the world's most popular Japanese roleplaying games. Welcome to an evening with several audience favourites – and a world premiere!

The music from the extensive FINAL FANTASY series is probably the most beloved and famous soundtrack of today. Since more than 30 years, the legendary world of FINAL FANTASY has stirred the imagination of people all over the world. Its musical universe comprises a rich variety of genres and expressions. Japanese Nobuo Uematsu is undoubtedly the most outstanding and well-known game music composer of today. In this concert, we will hear his suggestive and imaginative music from FINAL FANTASY VI and VIII. 

The latest addition to the game series, No. 15, was released in 2016 and has a darker and more realistic atmosphere than previous games in the series. The soundtrack is composed by another of the gaming world’s major musical profiles: Yoko Shimomura (KINGDOM HEARTS, LEGEND OF MANA, etc.). Konserthuset Stockholm will present the world premiere of an entirely new movement of her music from FINAL FANTASY XV. 

The concert will also feature beloved melodies from CHRONO TRIGGER/CHRONO CROSS by Yasunori Mitsuda. 

With soul-stirring orchestral arrangements by Jonne Valtonen and Roger Wanamo, the concert promises to be a remarkable musical journey, where the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic's full sound palette and grand virtuosity will be displayed.

Symphonic Memories has been developed by Merregnon Studios, the team behind many other successful and award-winning game music concerts. In Konserthuset Stockholm, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has previously featured Symphonic Fantasies (2012), Final Symphony (2014) and Final Symphony II (2016). 

This year marks one hundred years since the birth of Birgit Nilsson. To pay tribute to one of the country’s most prominent and outstanding singers and musical profiles, a photo exhibition featuring pictures from the life and unique career of Birgit Nilsson will be on display this summer. The exhibition is a portrait of the incredible career of this global artist, primarily as a concert vocalist, but also her roles. In addition to many photos, the dress she wore to the 1968 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be on display, as well as a slide show and recordings from Konserthuset’s archive.

Birgit Nilsson debuted at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1946 as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz. But she had already made her debut the year before at Konserthuset with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Tor Mann. Her career swiftly took off and in time, she became the world’s leading and most acclaimed dramatic soprano. Birgit Nilsson sang everything from Mozart to operas by Richard Strauss and Giacomo Puccini, but it was the music of Richard Wagner that paved the way for her career. She generated front page headlines in New York when she debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. And when she became the first foreign singer ever to open the season at La Scala in Milan in 1958, her success was absolute.

In her memoires, she describes the event as one of the most important in her life. All of the major opera houses around the world wanted to have her. She took the stage at the inauguration of the Sydney Opera House and she was a natural and celebrated guest at the Bayreuth Festival. In the early 1980s, she participated in many concerts, including in memory of Jussi Björling in 1985. Birgit Nilsson’s final performance with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was in 1990, when she hosted the concert at Gärdet. 

Every year on December 10, the Swedish Royal family, Nobel laureates, their families and guests, and the Nobel committee members meet at the Stockholm Concert Hall for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. Learn more about the ceremony and visit the Main Hall where it all takes place.

Every year on December 10, the Swedish Royal family, Nobel laureates, their families and guests, and the Nobel committee members meet at the Stockholm Concert Hall for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. Learn more about the ceremony and visit the Main Hall where it all takes place.