Diploma concert featuring Pontus Carron

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.