A world-renowned orchestra
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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is very much present in today’s music life.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1902 and Konserthuset Stockholm has been its home since 1926. The orchestra gives around 100 concerts annually and participates in the festivities associated with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
Among guest conductors, we find at the core the orchestra’s Conductor Laureates Alan Gilbert and Sakari Oramo along with Franz Welser-Möst – all three working with the orchestra on a regular basis. Welser-Möst holds the title of Eric Ericson Honorary Chair with the orchestra. Further guest conductors include notable names such as Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Simone Young and Gianandrea Noseda.
Noted for its ambitious programming, composer festivals with contemporary music and pioneering work on a more gender balanced repertoire, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is very much present in today’s music life. It has made itself an international name through extensive touring. The German newspaper Die Welt once concluded that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic is “one of the world’s best orchestras”.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Designate is the prize-winning American Ryan Bancroft, beginning his tenure with the 2023/24 season. Before him, Finnish Sakari Oramo was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2021. He concluded his tenure with a grand Sibelius festival in May 2021 (still online on Konserthuset Play), and was subsequently named Conductor Laureate.
The orchestra has also received considerable attention for several recordings; among them Carl Nielsen’s symphonies with Sakari Oramo which were critically acclaimed internationally; the recordings of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 received a BBC Music Magazine Award 2016. The CD Sirens, with music by Anders Hillborg, won a 2016 Swedish Grammy Award, and the CD Distant Light, with the world-renowned American soprano Renée Fleming, attracted much attention.
Konserthuset Play is the orchestra’s online platform. Launched in 2013 it offers a large selection of filmed performances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, available for free streaming anywhere in the world.
”The Konserthuset Play platform offers a digital showcase of the orchestra’s recent outings at home ... an invigorating reminder of what a truly world-class band this is ...” Flora Willson/The Guardian (20 April 2020)
Concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Talented conductor from Colombia leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in, among other things, a rare Mozart concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
Thursday 8 August 2024 19.00Lina González-Granados
Sebastian Iivonen and John Nalan. Photo: Elisabeth Toll
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSummer Concert – Enigma Variations
Talented conductor from Colombia leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in, among other things, a rare Mozart concerto for two pianos and orchestra.
Thursday 8 August 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
220 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/summer-concert-enigma-variations/20240808-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Mozart's 27 piano concertos are all musical highlights. Here's a unique opportunity to hear the only one he composed for two pianos and orchestra. An exquisite dialogue unfolds between the two soloists, who are the young and increasingly acclaimed pianists Sebastian Iivonen and John Nalan, both from Sweden.
We also hear Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, one of classical music's most popular works. Elgar had entertained his wife one evening with musical caricatures of people in their circle of friends, which grew into a series of variations for orchestra. "At first, I worked in a humorous spirit and continued seriously", Elgar recounted.
Between Mozart and Elgar, we hear new American music inspired by jazz, spirituals, hip-hop, and rock, while rooted in the classical tradition with a distinct American flavour. Jessie Montgomery was raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York, an environment that strongly influenced her music.
Lina González-Granados from Colombia makes her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in this concert. She is a super talent who has had great success in the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition and has assisted Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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The music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for two pianos and orchestra "Piano Concerto No. 10"24 min
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Intermission25 min
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Jessie Montgomery Strum for string orchestra8 min
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Edward Elgar Enigma Variations30 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Lina González-Granados conductor
- Sebastian Iivonen piano
- John Nalan piano
Thursday 8 August 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
220 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
It's that time of the year, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and brilliants guests. Bring your picnic!
Sunday 11 August 2024 14.00Free admission, no tickets required to The open-air Gärdet ConcertPhoto: Yanan Li
Nils Landgren. Foto: Nadja Sjöström
Cathrine Winnes
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe open-air Gärdet Concert
It's that time of the year, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and brilliants guests. Bring your picnic!
Sunday 11 August 2024 14.00
Ends approximately 15.30Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.At Gärdet in Stockholm, on the grass field in front of the Maritime Museum, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra arranges its open-air concert. Take a walk there along the beautiful Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, or pick bus 69 from the Central Station.
Free admission, no tickets required to The open-air Gärdet ConcertThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/the-open-air-gardet-concert/20240811-1400/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual Gärdet concert by the Maritime Museum is an indispensable tradition for Stockholmers. It’s a chance to pack a picnic basket or buy food on-site and enjoy sublime music and perhpaps a sing-along on the green grass.
Norwegian conductor Cathrine Winnes, former chief conductor of the Swedish Wind Ensemble and known to a wide audience, not least through the SVT series She Composes Like a Man, leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Guest artist is none other than the beloved Nisse Landgren, on both vocals and trombone. Fredrik Andersson, programme director of Konserthuset Stockholm, guides through a varied repertoire featuring several Nordic elements, historical classics and newer pieces.
In cooperation with Dagens Nyheter.
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Welcome early to Gärdet in front of the National Maritime Museum. The area opens at 11.00 with activities for children in our tent. Bring your own picnic or buy food and beverage on site. Walk there along beautiful Djurgårdsbrunnsviken or take bus 69 from Centralen.
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The music
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Bo Linde A Merry Overture7 min
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Ethel Smyth On the Cliffs of Cornwall – Prelude to Act II from The Wreckers9 min
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Kurt Weill September Song from Knickerbocker Holiday arr Lars Erik Gudim4 min
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Edvard Grieg Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 14 min
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Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 13 min
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Kurt Weill This Time Next Year arr Jörg Achim Keller4 min
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Bedrich Smetana Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride4 min
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Anna Clyne Masquerade5 min
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Leon Russell This Masquerade arr Jörg Achim Keller4 min
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Carl Nielsen The Cockerels’ Dance from Maskarade5 min
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Nils Landgren Ain’t Nobody arr Magnus Lindgren4 min
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Igor Stravinsky From The Firebird Suite (1919)10 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Cathrine Winnes conductor
- Nils Landgren trombone/vocals
- Filip Ekestubbe keyboards
- Niklas Fernqvist electric bass/double bass
- Calle Rasmusson drums
- Fredrik Andersson host
Sunday 11 August 2024 14.00
Ends approximately 15.30Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Free admission, no tickets required to The open-air Gärdet ConcertAt Gärdet in Stockholm, on the grass field in front of the Maritime Museum, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra arranges its open-air concert. Take a walk there along the beautiful Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, or pick bus 69 from the Central Station.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant sings Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
Thursday 15 August 2024 19.00Jessica Elevant. Photo: Helgi Reynisson
Sergej Bolkhovets
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSummer Concert with Wagner
The young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant sings Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder.
Thursday 15 August 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
220 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/summer-concert-with-wagner/20240815-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Helena Munktell’s romantic Suite for large orchestra is a piece that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has never before performed in its entirety. The music was composed in 1895, and like the now often performed Bränningar, this suite was premiered in Monte Carlo in the late 19th century.
Next, we hear the young Swedish soprano Jessica Elevant tackle Wagner's Wesendonck Songs – music filled with burning longing and celestial beauty. Jessica Elevant has recently gained attention for her participation in Daniel Nelson's opera Pride and Prejudice at the Norrlandsoperan. This marks her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Another debutant is Sergej Bolkhovets – as a conductor, that is. He has previously been a violin soloist with the orchestra. He leads the orchestra in Shostakovich's first symphony. Already in this symphony, Shostakovich demonstrates his phenomenal ability to handle the orchestra. It's personal music with humorous twists and great finesse. A remarkable symphonic debut by a 19-year-old composer.
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The music
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Helena Munktell Suite symphonique20 min
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Richard Wagner Wesendonck Lieder arr Felix Mottl/Richard Wagner21 min
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Intermission25 min
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Dmitrij Sjostakovitj Symphony No. 132 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sergej Bolkhovets conductor
- Jessica Elevant soprano
Thursday 15 August 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
220 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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