A world-renowned orchestra
Photo: Yanan Li
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 OrchestraTrumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Thursday 30 March 2023 19.00
Tobias Broström. Photo: Nicklas Raab
Håkan Hardenberger
Johannes Gustavsson
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraComposer Weekend – Lucernaris
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Thursday 30 March 2023 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:
140-440 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/2023/tonsattarweekend-2023/20230330-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Tobias Broström is known for his rhythmically powerful music, colourful orchestration and distinctive sense of harmonics. His richly associative, nearly cinematic narrative compositions are performed by orchestras all over the world. Now he is at the centre of Konserthuset Stockholm’s Composer Weekend 2023.
At this inaugural concert, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will give the world premiere of a newly composed opening piece. We also hear the trumpet concerto Lucernaris, written for internationally renowned trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, who is also the soloist.
The title Lucernaris refers to a Catholic lamp-lighting ceremony. Broström describes the piece as a journey from darkness to light, both on an overall poetic level – between darkness and light, cold and warmth – but also specifically musically, between soloist and orchestra.
The first symphony had its world premiere in 2022 and was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This is its second performance.
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The music
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Tobias Broström Rubedo – The Red Chapter (World Premiere)10 min
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Tobias Broström Lucernaris, concerto for trumpet, live electronics and orchestra30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Tobias Broström Symphony No. 1 ”Albedo”40 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannes Gustavsson conductor
- Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Thursday 30 March 2023 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:
140-440 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 planOther occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Friday 31 March 2023 19.00
Tobias Broström. Photo: Nicklas Raab
Håkan Hardenberger
Johannes Gustavsson
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraComposer Weekend – Lucernaris
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Friday 31 March 2023 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:
140-440 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/2023/tonsattarweekend-2023/20230401-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Tobias Broström is known for his rhythmically powerful music, colourful orchestration and distinctive sense of harmonics. His richly associative, nearly cinematic narrative compositions are performed by orchestras all over the world. Now he is at the centre of Konserthuset Stockholm’s Composer Weekend 2023.
At this inaugural concert, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will give the world premiere of a newly composed opening piece. We also hear the trumpet concerto Lucernaris, written for internationally renowned trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, who is also the soloist.
The title Lucernaris refers to a Catholic lamp-lighting ceremony. Broström describes the piece as a journey from darkness to light, both on an overall poetic level – between darkness and light, cold and warmth – but also specifically musically, between soloist and orchestra.
The first symphony had its world premiere in 2022 and was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This is its second performance.
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The music
Approximate times -
Tobias Broström Rubedo – The Red Chapter (World Premiere)10 min
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Tobias Broström Lucernaris, concerto for trumpet, live electronics and orchestra30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Tobias Broström Symphony No. 1 ”Albedo”40 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannes Gustavsson conductor
- Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Friday 31 March 2023 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:
140-440 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 planOther occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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 OrchestraThe young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene in a new violin concerto.
Thursday 13 April 2023 18.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Johan Dalene. Photo: Mats Bäcker
John Storgårds
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSibelius and Monnakgotla
The young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene in a new violin concerto.
Thursday 13 April 2023 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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●Livestream
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2023/sibelius-and-monnakgotla/20230413-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.As Finland’s national composer, Jean Sibelius became a symbol of the country’s cultural identity after its liberation from Russia, including by integrating national elements in the music. This is especially true of the Lemminkäinen Suite, the story of which is based on the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. The piece was originally intended as a mythological opera, but Sibelius scrapped that idea and formulated a four-movement symphonic poem instead.
The programme also includes the world premiere of Swedish composer Tebogo Monnakgotla’s Violin Concerto, which was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra together with Sinfonia Lahti and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Monnakgotla has been called “one of the most prominent Swedish composers of her generation”. The violin concerto is one in a series of concertos that deal with climate change as well as holding a fascination for the forces of nature.
Johan Dalene, the violin soloist, is just 21 years old, but he has already been featured on the international scene. Dalene won first prize at the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition in 2019 and was one of the internationally chosen Rising Stars of the 2021/22 season. Dalene and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s recordings of Sibelius and Nielsen’s violin concertos were released (on BIS) in spring 2021, after which Dalene was named Young Artist of the Year 2022 by Gramophone magazine.
Finnish John Storgårds leads the orchestra here. He has a double career as a violin virtuoso and a successful conductor, and is known for his creative programming and exciting, refined performances. Storgårds is principal guest conductor of both the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada.
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The music
Approximate times -
Tebogo Monnakgotla Globe Skimmer Surfing the Somali Jet – Violin Concerto (World Premiere)26 min
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Intermission25 min
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Jean Sibelius Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island from Lemminkäinen Suite16 min
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Jean Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela from Lemminkäinen Suite10 min
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Jean Sibelius Lemminkäinen in Tuonela from Lemminkäinen Suite17 min
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Jean Sibelius Lemminkäinen’s Return from Lemminkäinen Suite7 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- John Storgårds conductor
- Johan Dalene violin
Thursday 13 April 2023 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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●Livestream
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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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