RSPO Orchestra Academy and NOSPR Academy

Since 2016, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has hosted an ”Orchestra Academy”. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year, advanced academic programme for young musicians. Under the guidance of the section leaders from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piteå School of Music, the musicians receive intensive training individually, in chamber music, and orchestral playing.

They also showcase their talents through a series of public chamber music concerts – such as this one featuring this year’s academy musicians. On this occasion, we experience another collaboration between the orchestral academies of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and their Polish counterpart, the NOSPR Academy of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.

The ensembles are led by the young, award-winning Polish conductor Joanna Natalia Slusarczyk, and the programme includes both Swedish and Polish music before the musicians join forces in Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. The concert features colour-exploring music by Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi and seasonal reflections by Polish composer Aleksander Lasoń – who captures moods rather than illustrating the seasons. We then hear excerpts from works by Polish composers Kamil G. Polak and Maja Polak.

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The partnership between Konserthuset Stockholm and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice is taking place in 2024-2025, under the project name Institutions of the Future 2024-2025. This project is supported by the Polish Ministry of Culture under their Inspiring Culture initiative. The concert is presented in partnership with the Polish Institute in Stockholm.