Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Max Bruch’s concerto in G-minor is one of the most beloved violin concertos in classical music. With magnificently beautiful passages, this piece has an irresistible romantic charge. The brilliant finale is a technical challenge.

This concert will be Dutch Noa Wildschut’s (b. 2001) debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She was nominated for the ECHO Rising Stars 2019/20 season by Concertgebouw Amsterdam, but her scheduled concert at Konserthuset Stockholm was cancelled because of the pandemic. Now, when she takes the stage, the orchestra will be led by Norwegian Tabita Berglund, one of the winners of the Neeme Järvi Prize 2018 at the Gstaad Conducting Academy.

The concert begins with music by Louise Farrenc, a leading name of the nineteenth-century French music scene. She was active as a composer and was also a brilliant concert pianist, and a professor for thirty years at the historic conservatory in Paris. Propelled by an irresistible energy, her Overture in E-flat major is filled with melodic imagination and a harmonious sensibility. It is also evident that she was a great admirer of Beethoven.

Edvard Grieg was tasked with composing the music to Ibsen’s drama Peer Gynt. After the premiere in 1876, Grieg compiled a few suites from the incidental music. We will hear the beloved pieces Morning Mood, Solveig’s Song, Anitra’s Dance and In the Hall of the Mountain King.

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Please note
The concert will take place with an audience of maximum 300 people in the hall. Our ticket system ensures that you and your company (a maximum of eight people) have a distance of at least one meter to other members of the audience.

Information on how Konserthuset ensures a safe visit

Italian conductor Daniela Musca debuts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at this summer concert, with music by Bizet, Jaëll and Mussorgsky. She studied piano and chamber music in Rome, her home city, as well as conducting in Berlin. She has led several German orchestras.

In the opera Carmen, Georges Bizet demonstrates an unparalleled capacity to create charming and striking melodies. In the opera, we return to nineteenth-century Europe, when the figure of Carmen challenged the morality of the era. We can all see her before us, the cigarette girl from Seville: irrepressible, sensual and independent, courageous and capricious, all of which are reflected in the Spanish-influenced music. We will hear a suite from the opera, which premiered in Paris in 1875.

Marie Jaëll was also active in Paris in the latter half of the nineteenth century. She was a brilliant pianist and composed several solo pieces and two piano concertos, as well as this melodically beautiful and heartfelt cello concerto. The soloist is the young Swedish cellist Kristina Winiarski (b. 1994) who has already performed with major orchestras all over the world. She also has a connection to Paris: she studied there in the prestigious Classe d’excellence de Violoncelle.

In Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, we remain in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Mussorgsky and many members of his social circle were deeply shaken by the sudden death of one of their friends, German-born artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, who was just 39 years old. To honour their friend, they organised a large exhibition in St. Petersburg, displaying over 400 pieces by Hartmann. Moved by the paintings and the memories they evoked, in a short period of time in the summer of 1874, Modest Mussorgsky composed one of his most played and popular works, the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. The music illustrates ten paintings at the exhibition, and to reinforce the illustrative dimension, he included a Promenade theme that serves as a transition, or movement, between the various “pictures”.

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Please note
The concert will take place with an audience of maximum 300 people in the hall. Our ticket system ensures that you and your company (a maximum of eight people) have a distance of at least one meter to other members of the audience.

Information on how Konserthuset ensures a safe visit

The concert will take place Friday 2 June 2023. 

Purchased tickets will be valid for the new concert date.

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At last! Experience the magical music of Studio Ghibli films live at Konserthuset Stockholm, together with a selection of clips on the screen.

This concert is a tribute to the successful and close collaboration between two legendary artists: the composer Joe Hisaishi and the director Hayao Miyazaki. This magical concert experience will reach Stockholm in June – and Joe Hisaishi himself will participate on stage as both conductor and piano soloist.

Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki has created unique cinematography together for over 30 years. Their artistic collaboration has reached world-fame through the film from the Japanese animation production house Studio Ghibli.

My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle… the list of animated masterpieces is long, and the Studio Ghibli films are beloved by audiences all over the world. Joe Hisaishi’s moving and personal music makes a powerful contribution to the character of the movies. Or, in the words of legendary Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki: “Joe Hisaishi is the only match for Miyazaki’s anime.”

The concert will include music from about ten of the most popular Ghibli movies. Under the leadership of Maestro Hisaishi, the music will be performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Katarina choirs and a number of vocal soloists, while sequences from the movies are projected onto a screen.

This lavish production has been a hit in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. In Europe, it has been presented in Paris, Lyon, Brussels and Prague. The concerts at Konserthuset Stockholm will thus be the Scandinavian premiere of the Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert – a unique opportunity for all Ghibli fans.

Age-limit from 6 years.

The concert will take place Saturday 3 June 2023. 

Purchased tickets will be valid for the new concert date.

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At last! Experience the magical music of Studio Ghibli films live at Konserthuset Stockholm, together with a selection of clips on the screen.

This concert is a tribute to the successful and close collaboration between two legendary artists: the composer Joe Hisaishi and the director Hayao Miyazaki. This magical concert experience will reach Stockholm in June – and Joe Hisaishi himself will participate on stage as both conductor and piano soloist.

Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki has created unique cinematography together for over 30 years. Their artistic collaboration has reached world-fame through the film from the Japanese animation production house Studio Ghibli.

My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle… the list of animated masterpieces is long, and the Studio Ghibli films are beloved by audiences all over the world. Joe Hisaishi’s moving and personal music makes a powerful contribution to the character of the movies. Or, in the words of legendary Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki: “Joe Hisaishi is the only match for Miyazaki’s anime.”

The concert will include music from about ten of the most popular Ghibli movies. Under the leadership of Maestro Hisaishi, the music will be performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Katarina choirs and a number of vocal soloists, while sequences from the movies are projected onto a screen.

This lavish production has been a hit in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. In Europe, it has been presented in Paris, Lyon, Brussels and Prague. The concerts at Konserthuset Stockholm will thus be the Scandinavian premiere of the Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert – a unique opportunity for all Ghibli fans.

Age-limit from 6 years.