Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Photo: Mats Lundqvist
With over 100 concerts a year and creative programming, it’s an orchestra constantly evolving. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has probably never been better.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is today among the most active streaming players worldwide. With its digital platform Konserthuset Play, the orchestra offers a comprehensive library of filmed performances which are available for free streaming anywhere in the world.
In the following sections, you can read more about the orchestra's history since 1902 – its historic chief conductors, guests and tours – and get acquainted with the members of the orchestra of today.
Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo leads the orchestra and Johan Dalene is violin soloist in Nielsen.
Thursday 21 March 2024 18.00Johan Dalene. Photo: Mats Bäcker
Sakari Oramo. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo leads the orchestra and Johan Dalene is violin soloist in Nielsen.
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 young violinist Johan Dalene (born 2000) took home first prize at the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition in 2019. Dalene and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra recently released an album of Sibelius’ and Nielsen’s violin concertos. He was then named Young Artist of the Year by the leading magazine Gramophone, and the cd was also awarded a Swedish Grammy.
At this concert, we hear him in Nielsen’s Violin Concerto, a dazzling, virtuosic masterpiece! It is highly evident that Nielsen was a violinist in this temperamental concerto, in which he truly takes advantage of the incredible power and expressive possibilities of the violin.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Sakari Oramo, who was the orchestra’s chief conductor and artistic director from 2008–21. His final concert as chief conductor was an in-depth journey through the musical landscape of Jean Sibelius.
At this concert, we have yet another opportunity to hear Sakari Oramo interpret Sibelius’ dense and colourful Symphony No. 7. This takes place almost to the day 100 years after the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the work with Sibelius himself as the conductor (on March 24, 1924).
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 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 planConductor Laureate Sakari Oramo leads the orchestra and Johan Dalene is violin soloist in Nielsen.
Saturday 23 March 2024 15.00Johan Dalene. Photo: Mats Bäcker
Sakari Oramo. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Conductor Laureate Sakari Oramo leads the orchestra and Johan Dalene is violin soloist in Nielsen.
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 young violinist Johan Dalene (born 2000) took home first prize at the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition in 2019. Dalene and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra recently released an album of Sibelius’ and Nielsen’s violin concertos. He was then named Young Artist of the Year by the leading magazine Gramophone, and the cd was also awarded a Swedish Grammy.
At this concert, we hear him in Nielsen’s Violin Concerto, a dazzling, virtuosic masterpiece! It is highly evident that Nielsen was a violinist in this temperamental concerto, in which he truly takes advantage of the incredible power and expressive possibilities of the violin.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Sakari Oramo, who was the orchestra’s chief conductor and artistic director from 2008–21. His final concert as chief conductor was an in-depth journey through the musical landscape of Jean Sibelius.
At this concert, we have yet another opportunity to hear Sakari Oramo interpret Sibelius’ dense and colourful Symphony No. 7. This takes place almost to the day 100 years after the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the work with Sibelius himself as the conductor (on March 24, 1924).
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 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 planLatvian Aivis Greters leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s symphonic milestone.
Wednesday 27 March 2024 18.00Aivis Greters
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Latvian Aivis Greters leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s symphonic milestone.
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 planBeethoven’s Symphony No. 3, nicknamed “Eroica” – Heroic – is a large, fascinating listening adventure. The surprises come one after the next: Beethoven developed the opening theme in a way that had never been done before.
The symphony was originally composed in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, but when Napoleon declared himself emperor, Beethoven is said to have proclaimed: “Now he will also trample all human rights underfoot and only promote his own interests; he will put himself before others and be a tyrant!”
Beethoven was a friend of France and his antipathy for Napoleon evidently lessened later on. In a biography on the French emperor, Beethoven said, “Before, I couldn’t stand him. I now have a completely different perception.”
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Latvian Aivis Greters, who is assistant conductor at GöteborgsOperan and Orchestre de Paris. The concert opens with Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza – a brief and colourful celebration of Beethoven, written for the Beethoven year 2020. South Korean Unsuk Chin was at the centre of Konserthuset’s international Composer Festival in 2013.
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