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Three young ensembles

Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 18:00

Konserthuset Stockholm, The Grünewald Hall (Stockholm)

Ensemble from El Sistema Södertälje, Ensemble from Conservatory of Music Falun, Clara May Teahan (Oboe), Sabina Aran (Bassoon)

Welcome to a vibrant concert where the Orchestra Academy of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra joins forces with musicians from El Sistema Södertälje and the Falun Conservatory of Music.The RSPO Orchestra Academy is an academic specialist program with an international focus. El Sistema Södertälje, with which the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has collaborated since its inception in 2012, is an orchestra school aimed at students from kindergarten upwards. The Falun Conservatory of Music is one of the country’s leading secondary-level institutions for young musicians with professional ambitions.Two musicians from this season’s Orchestra Academy perform as soloists, namely the English-born oboist Clara May Teahan and the Spanish bassoonist Sabina Aran.Similar collaborations between musicians and ensembles at different stages of their education also took place in 2022 and 2023.

Info (www.konserthuset.se)

Organ matinee with Johannes Landgren

Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 12:15

Konserthuset Stockholm, The Main Hall (Stockholm)

Johannes Landgren (Organ), Ulf Norberg (Presenter)

Through Konserthuset’s popular organ matinée subscription, audiences get to hear Sweden’s leading organists play the building’s organ – one of the largest in Europe, with 6,100 pipes. Johannes Landgren has served as a professor and acting vice-chancellor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, as well as in the leadership of the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. Now based in Mölndal and Gothenburg, he works as a freelance musician and conductor. Landgren has toured internationally and has recorded nearly 40 CDs across a wide range of genres.Here, he performs his own compositions Hommage à Duke Ellington and Organ Fantasy on Hymn No. 325: In hope my saved soul rejoices. Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor pays tribute to a Dutch colleague, where Bach uses an old Dutch folk melody. We also hear music by Czech composer Petr Eben, Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, and Scottish composer Thea Musgrave – who was the focus of the International Composer Festival at Konserthuset in 2018.***You are welcome to eat or drink something before or after the organ concert. The bar in the Main Foyer is open at 11.45–12.15 and 13.15–14.15, offering a variety of delicious food and drinks in our beautiful surroundings.

Info (www.konserthuset.se)

Three young ensembles

Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 18:00

Konserthuset Stockholm, The Grünewald Hall (Stockholm)

Welcome to a vibrant concert where the Orchestra Academy of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra joins forces with musicians from El Sistema Södertälje and the Falun Conservatory of Music.The RSPO Orchestra Academy is an academic specialist program with an international focus. El Sistema Södertälje, with which the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has collaborated since its inception in 2012, is an orchestra school aimed at students from kindergarten upwards. The Falun Conservatory of Music is one of the country’s leading secondary-level institutions for young musicians with professional ambitions.Two musicians from this season’s Orchestra Academy perform as soloists, namely the English-born oboist Clara May Teahan and the Spanish bassoonist Sabina Aran.Similar collaborations between musicians and ensembles at different stages of their education also took place in 2022 and 2023.

Organ matinee with Johannes Landgren

Through Konserthuset’s popular organ matinée subscription, audiences get to hear Sweden’s leading organists play the building’s organ – one of the largest in Europe, with 6,100 pipes. Johannes Landgren has served as a professor and acting vice-chancellor at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, as well as in the leadership of the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. Now based in Mölndal and Gothenburg, he works as a freelance musician and conductor. Landgren has toured internationally and has recorded nearly 40 CDs across a wide range of genres.Here, he performs his own compositions Hommage à Duke Ellington and Organ Fantasy on Hymn No. 325: In hope my saved soul rejoices. Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor pays tribute to a Dutch colleague, where Bach uses an old Dutch folk melody. We also hear music by Czech composer Petr Eben, Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, and Scottish composer Thea Musgrave – who was the focus of the International Composer Festival at Konserthuset in 2018.***You are welcome to eat or drink something before or after the organ concert. The bar in the Main Foyer is open at 11.45–12.15 and 13.15–14.15, offering a variety of delicious food and drinks in our beautiful surroundings.