Members of the Orchestra

Photo: Yanan Li
100 concerts annually with 105 musicians – get to know them here!
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (RSPO) was founded in 1902 and Konserthuset Stockholm has been its home since 1926. The RSPO gives around 100 concerts annually, and the orchestra also participates in the festivities associated with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and the presentation of the Polar Music Prize.
On these pages each member of the orchestra is presented, section by section.
Concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
Anu Komsi is the soloist and the orchestra is led by Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo.
Saturday 30 September 2023 15.00Anu Komsi. Photo: Jan-Olav Wedin
Sakari Oramo. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicBritten and Saariaho
Anu Komsi is the soloist and the orchestra is led by Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo.
Saturday 30 September 2023 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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/britten-and-saariaho/20230930-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Two prominent Finnish names in music are Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo, and Anu Komsi, celebrated for her crystal-clear soprano and light, high register. Here, they take on Saarikoski Songs by fellow countryman Kaija Saariaho, a piece that was commissioned by Komsi. Saariaho’s expressive, painterly music is infused with a rare beauty that made her unique in the world of modern classical music. She passed away in June earlier this year, at 70 years of age.
A female pioneer preceding Saariaho was Grace Williams. She studied under Vaughan Williams and became established by the mid-twentieth century, and was also Wales’ first symphonist. Her Fairest of Stars for soprano and orchestra is a shimmering, beautiful piece with text from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Sinfonia da Requiem from 1940 was a Japanese commission for a piece of music in celebration of the 2600-year anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire. Pacifist Benjamin Britten provided an incredibly powerful, yet deeply fateful work that surprised everyone.
The concert begins with music by American Andrew Norman (born 1979), which the Los Angeles Times described as “the leading American composer of his generation.” We hear his imaginative, vivid, and – as the title suggests – loose-lipped Unstuck.
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The music
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Andrew Norman Unstuck10 min
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Kaija Saariaho Saarikoski Songs15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Grace Williams Fairest of Stars – Aria for soprano and orchestra15 min
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Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem20 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
- Anu Komsi soprano
Saturday 30 September 2023 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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
Tchaikovsky’s orchestral fantasy and Nielsen in Italian.
Wednesday 4 October 2023 18.00Alberto Navarra
Daniela Musca. Photo: Stefano Corso
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraRomeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky’s orchestral fantasy and Nielsen in Italian.
Wednesday 4 October 2023 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-370 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/romeo-and-juliet/20231004-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Carl Nielsen International Competition has been held in Odense, Denmark every three years since the 1970s. First place in 2022 in the flute category went to the young Italian flute player Alberto Navarra – and as the soloist in Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, we can see why.
Italian Daniela Musca conducted at the latest Carl Nielsen competition in 2022. She debuted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at a summer concert in 2021 and was promptly invited to return. She now leads the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, and the emotional music draws is into a love story that is tragic and famous in equal measure.
First we hear an energetic overture by German Emilie Mayer. She was one of the most significant German symphonic composers in the period between Schumann and Brahms and composed numerous large-scale works in the genre – inspired by Beethoven, among others.
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The music
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Emilie Mayer Faust Overture12 min
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Carl Nielsen Flute Concerto18 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet20 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Daniela Musca conductor
- Alberto Navarra flute
Wednesday 4 October 2023 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-370 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, Kids & family
In the woods among the trolls with Nordic music.
Saturday 7 October 2023 14.00Maria Itkonen
Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Kids & familyTo the Hall of the Mountain King
In the woods among the trolls with Nordic music.
Saturday 7 October 2023 14.00
Ends approximately 15.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
Children 90 SEK, adult 180 SEKThe 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/mot-bergakungens-sal/20231007-1400/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Together, we’re searching for the hidden treasures found In The Hall of the Mountain King. Along the way, we meet trolls from the forest, giants, witches and animals. Ayla Kabaca leads the search and sings songs about trolls with the audience, including “Ett gammalt fult och elakt troll” (An Old, Ugly, Mean Troll) and “Trollmors vaggsång” (Troll Mother’s Lullaby).
Nordic music sets the tone In the Hall of the Mountain King, with classic images painted by John Bauer. This performance is produced in partnership with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Note
It is not possible to bring strollers into the Stockholm Concert Hall, if possible leave the them at home.
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The music
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Mot Bergakungens sal
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Jean Sibelius Finlandia4 min
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Edvard Grieg Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 14 min
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Elfrida Andrée From Fritiof Suite2 min
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August Söderman King Carl XV’s Funeral March2 min
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Carl Nielsen From Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia espansiva"2 min
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Margit Holmberg Trollmors vaggsång arr Backman3 min
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Helena Munktell Breaking Waves2 min
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Jean Sibelius Finlandia2 min
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Wilhelm Stenhammar Excelsior!3 min
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Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 12 min
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Edvard Grieg Morning Mood from Peer Gynt Suite No. 14 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Maria Itkonen conductor
- Ayla Kabaca host
Saturday 7 October 2023 14.00
Ends approximately 15.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
Children 90 SEK, adult 180 SEKThe 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 17.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
Children 90 SEK, adult 180 SEKThe 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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