Open house at Berwaldhallen
Berwaldhallen opens its doors wide! Anyone curious, young or old, is welcome for a number of activities for those who want to know more. Try orchestra instruments, sing with choral singers, or why not conduct an orchestra?
Different activities take place throughout the day in Berwaldhallen’s big auditorium as well as in the foyers. Café Berwald is open all day for those feeling peckish. Radioapan is on site for the youngest visitors. The arts school orchestras, and students from El Sistema, Stockholm, also participate!
Participants
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
David Björkman, bördig från Skellefteå, är en av Sveriges mest efterfrågade dirigenter. Han dirigerar både symfonisk repertoar och opera med Sveriges mest framstående orkestrar och operahus, bl.a. Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Kungliga Operan, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Svenska kammarorkestern, Göteborgsoperan, Malmöoperan samt regelbundet orkestrar över hela Sverige.
2004 fick Björkman ta emot Svenska Dirigentpriset och fyra år senare var han återigen pristagare i den internationella Prokofiev-tävlingen för orkesterdirigenter. Han har en bred repertoar och har uruppfört mer än 30 orkesterverk av nordiska tonsättare och gästat orkestrar i Ryssland, Island och Finland.
Björkman har en bakgrund som violinist och konsertmästare i flera ledande orkestrar. Diplomet i orkesterdirigering tog han på Kungliga Musikhögskolan efter studier för Jorma Panula, Cecilia Rydinger Alin och Paul Mägi. I privat regi har han dessutom studerat för framstående dirigenter som Esa-Pekka Salonen samt för Maestro Sixten Ehrling.
Från och med januari i år är David konstnärlig ledare och musikdirektör för Livgardets Dragonmusikkår.
More concerts
BEETHOVEN’S EIGHTH SYMPHONY
In his first concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Portuguese conductor Dinis Sousa plays powerful and poignant music by Joseph Haydn, Kaija Saariaho and Ludwig van Beethoven.
BACH’S MASS IN B MINOR
Music director Kaspars Putniņš conducts the Swedish Radio Choir and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Johann Sebastian Bach’s great masterpiece.
MOZART IN THE HANDS OF MAXIM EMELYANYCHEV
Meet the SRSO’s principal guest conductor designate as both conductor and soloist in Mozart’s exuberant 23rd piano concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov’s thrilling Sheherazade.