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
Seong-Jin Cho is piano soloist and the orchestra is led by Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 18 April 2024 18.00Photo: Yanan Li
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraRachmaninov and Saint-Saëns
Seong-Jin Cho is piano soloist and the orchestra is led by Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 18 April 2024 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:
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/2024/rachmaninov-and-saint-saëns/20240418-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Since winning the famous Chopin Competition in 2015, South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho has been one of the most in-demand soloists in the world. At this concert, he performs Saint-Saëns’ colourful Piano Concerto No. 5. Saint-Saëns himself remarked that this piece is reminiscent of a voyage on the sea. The concerto was composed in Luxor and because of those influences, it is often referred to as The Egyptian.
We also hear Rachmaninoff’s very last work: Symphonic Dances, in which he dreams of the Russia of his childhood. In addition, we hear American Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw’s dreamy and imaginative Entr’acte – music inspired by a string quartet by Joseph Haydn. Caroline Shaw describes how some music can transport the listener to another world, like the minuets of Haydn’s op. 77, “in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolour transition,” she says.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by award-winning American conductor Ryan Bancroft, who is chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra as of this season.
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The music
Approximate times -
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 530 min
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Intermission25 min
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Caroline Shaw Entr’acte for string orchestra12 min
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Serge Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances34 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Seong-Jin Cho piano
Thursday 18 April 2024 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:
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
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Wednesday 24 April 2024 19.00Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDream and confession
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Wednesday 24 April 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:
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/2024/dream-and-confession/20240424-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Be prepared: this is a programme that traverses emotional extremes. It begins gently and melancholic – sorrow can be beautiful – and concludes with the emotional outbursts that arise when the thunderous blows of the orchestra's thirteen hammers resonate through history, to the bone and marrow. It’s music that shakes you to the core.
In between, entirely different music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. His first piano concerto is a musical fireworks display with dizzyingly fast runs across the entire range of the piano. At this concert, the rockets are ignited by the acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was only seventeen when he wrote his wonderful overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it is considered one of his first mature masterpieces, and the young composer manages to capture the full range of emotions that Shakespeare presents in his universally human comedy.
Emotions, indeed. British composer Anna Clyne composed the opening piece Within Her Arms in 2009, in memory of her mother. The music for string ensemble resonates with a tenderness and warmth reminiscent of for instance the Renaissance composer John Dowland.
Closing The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was composed in 1990 by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, who is featured in the International Composer Festival this autumn. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft has testified to the transformative experience when he first heard the incredibly powerful work as a teenager.
Isobel Gowdie was burned at the stake during the Scottish witch trials in the 17th century. ”On behalf of the Scottish people, the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life”, writes MacMillan. In her memory, he composed an unforgettable and poignant ”requiem” for orchestra.
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The music
Approximate times -
Anna Clyne Within Her Arms for string ensemble12 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Piano Concerto No. 120 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream12 min
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James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie26 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Wednesday 24 April 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:
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 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:
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
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 2024 19.00Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDream and confession
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 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:
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/2024/dream-and-confession/20240425-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Be prepared: this is a programme that traverses emotional extremes. It begins gently and melancholic – sorrow can be beautiful – and concludes with the emotional outbursts that arise when the thunderous blows of the orchestra's thirteen hammers resonate through history, to the bone and marrow. It’s music that shakes you to the core.
In between, entirely different music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. His first piano concerto is a musical fireworks display with dizzyingly fast runs across the entire range of the piano. At this concert, the rockets are ignited by the acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was only seventeen when he wrote his wonderful overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it is considered one of his first mature masterpieces, and the young composer manages to capture the full range of emotions that Shakespeare presents in his universally human comedy.
Emotions, indeed. British composer Anna Clyne composed the opening piece Within Her Arms in 2009, in memory of her mother. The music for string ensemble resonates with a tenderness and warmth reminiscent of for instance the Renaissance composer John Dowland.
Closing The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was composed in 1990 by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, who is featured in the International Composer Festival this autumn. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft has testified to the transformative experience when he first heard the incredibly powerful work as a teenager.
Isobel Gowdie was burned at the stake during the Scottish witch trials in the 17th century. ”On behalf of the Scottish people, the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life”, writes MacMillan. In her memory, he composed an unforgettable and poignant ”requiem” for orchestra.
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The music
Approximate times -
Anna Clyne Within Her Arms for string ensemble12 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Piano Concerto No. 120 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream12 min
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James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie26 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Thursday 25 April 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:
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 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:
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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