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Millesgården Museum, in collaboration with Konserthuset Stockholm, is once again hosting outdoor concerts at Millesgården. Experience music, art, and good food in perfect harmony.

The doors to the sculpture park open well before the concert, allowing visitors to experience the magical Millesgården in its early summer attire. Enjoy a glass of bubbly or some light refreshments at the summer café outside Anne’s House, then find a nice spot to settle down and enjoy the music.

At each event, an ensemble performs music carefully selected to suit both the location and the time when the Milles couple lived there. At this final concert, we hear an ensemble consisting of young Polish musicians from the NOSPR Orchestra Academy, which is affiliated with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. It is a higher specialized education for musicians, similar to the orchestra academy affiliated with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Konserthuset. The two orchestra academies have also collaborated on several occasions.

In collaboration with Millesgården

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The concert is presented as part of the project Institutions of the Future 2024–2025, with support from the Polish Ministry of Culture under the Inspiring Culture initiative. It is also carried out in collaboration with and with support from the Polish Institute.

Join us for the concluding concert of Adolf Fredrik’s Music School. All 240 students in year 9 will finish off their time at the now two schools with a joint concert at Konserthuset Stockholm.

Adolf Fredrik’s Music School is a specialised school with a focus on choral singing. Music is part of all operations at the school and all students participate in active and outward-oriented concert activities. With music as a language and choral singing as a method, Adolf Fredrik’s Music School educates choral singers for tomorrow’s Swedish choirs.

Since 2016, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has hosted an ”Orchestra Academy”. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year, advanced academic programme for young musicians. Under the guidance of the section leaders from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piteå School of Music, the musicians receive intensive training individually, in chamber music, and orchestral playing.

They also showcase their talents through a series of public chamber music concerts – such as this one featuring this year’s academy musicians. This finale is more than just a traditional chamber concert – we hear Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in a version for a smaller ensemble, led by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Ryan Bancroft!

Symphony No. 4 is both simple and sophisticated; it is like dewdrops on a flower, suddenly shimmering with thousands of colours as the sunlight touches them – as Mahler himself described the melodies of the first movement. The symphony has been called “heavenly blue.” The first three movements lead to a final movement with a soprano solo: Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden – We revel in the heavenly joys. It is open, bright, lyrical, yet also playful, with themes and sonorities from the earlier movements reappearing.

The soloist is the Swedish soprano Karin Mobacke, who in recent years has been gaining increasing attention on the country’s opera and concert stages. She made her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023 in a concert performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann’s national opera Gustaf Wasa.

The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's music is familiar to many from the delightful Sabre Dance of the ballet Gayane, and the Adagio from the ballet Spartacus, from which the swooning theme music for the TV series The Onedin Line was borrowed. Khachaturian unquestionably wrote music that captivates listeners.

Unfortunately, his other works have rarely been performed at Konserthuset. Here, it is Jean-Yves Thibaudet who takes on the vibrant and powerful piano concerto, with a beautifully flowing and dreamlike middle movement where the strings are accompanied by a flexatone (imagine playing on a saw!). The distinguished French pianist Thibaudet has been a champion of Khachaturian's music for many years.

Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft then leads the orchestra in the classic Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This tone poem, with its powerful – not to mention iconic – opening, is inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel. It is well known, of course, that Strauss's music was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Stanley Kubrick actually also placed music from Khachaturian's ballet Gayane in the same film.

The concert opens with the world premiere of a newly written work by the young Swedish composer Zacharias Wolfe (born 1996). Here begins a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm: each season a newly written work by a master's student will be performed. Wolfe's orchestral work Held by Threads is the first.

Learn more about Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Konserthuset Stockholm at Hötorget is one of Sweden’s great architectural masterpieces. Created during a period of expansion in Stockholm, by the Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom, it opened in 1926. Konserthuset Stockholm was built for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has since the start been the dedicated venue for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony as well as many other prestigious events.

• The guided tour is held in Swedish.
• Maximum 25 persons/tour.

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The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's music is familiar to many from the delightful Sabre Dance of the ballet Gayane, and the Adagio from the ballet Spartacus, from which the swooning theme music for the TV series The Onedin Line was borrowed. Khachaturian unquestionably wrote music that captivates listeners.

Unfortunately, his other works have rarely been performed at Konserthuset. Here, it is Jean-Yves Thibaudet who takes on the vibrant and powerful piano concerto, with a beautifully flowing and dreamlike middle movement where the strings are accompanied by a flexatone (imagine playing on a saw!). The distinguished French pianist Thibaudet has been a champion of Khachaturian's music for many years.

Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft then leads the orchestra in the classic Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This tone poem, with its powerful – not to mention iconic – opening, is inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel. It is well known, of course, that Strauss's music was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Stanley Kubrick actually also placed music from Khachaturian's ballet Gayane in the same film.

The concert opens with the world premiere of a newly written work by the young Swedish composer Zacharias Wolfe (born 1996). Here begins a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm: each season a newly written work by a master's student will be performed. Wolfe's orchestral work Held by Threads is the first.

In connection with the concert, the Friends of the Philharmonic presents this year’s scholarships.

Learn more about Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft

Millesgården Museum, in collaboration with the Stockholm Concert Hall, organises outdoor concerts at Millesgården. In this third and last concert in the series, we hear musicians from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Experience music, art, and good food in perfect harmony.

The doors to the sculpture park open well before the concert, allowing visitors to experience the magical Millesgården in its early summer attire. Enjoy a glass of bubbly or some light refreshments at the summer café outside Annes House, then find a nice spot to settle down and enjoy the music.

At each event, an ensemble performs music carefully selected to suit both the location and the time when the Milles couple lived there. This third concert of the series features the string quartet Voces intimae (1909) by Jean Sibelius, performed by the Dahlkvist Quartet: Kersti Gräntz and Gudrun Dahlkvist on violins, Jon Dahlkvist on viola, and Hanna Dahlkvist on cello – who is also a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

In collaboration with Millesgården

Konserthuset Stockholm – the Blue House at Hötorget – is moving out to Järva, bringing with it a taste of the music that fills the house almost every day of the year. Come and say hello – we’ll tell you more about Konserthuset and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

Wind players from the orchestra will give the final concert of Järva Week. Host for the occasion is Konserthuset’s CEO, Susanne Rydén.

Järva Week is a civic festival and meeting ground with a focus on integration, equality and democracy. Held annually at Spånga IP in north-west Stockholm, the event aims to bridge the gap between citizens, politicians, public authorities, businesses and civil society. Through open discussions, seminars, debates and cultural events, the week highlights current social issues and challenges.

Founded in 2016, Järva Week was inspired by Almedalen Week in Visby – but with the goal of creating a platform for participation and dialogue in a part of society where many people otherwise feel excluded from the public conversation.

Read more on the Järva Week website (opens in a new window)

It’s time once again for a true summer highlight! The open-air concert at the Maritime Museum on Gärdet is a cherished tradition in Stockholm, delighting audiences for decades. Hugely popular and always well attended, the event often includes sing-alongs and children’s activities – a “must” for many in the Stockholm summer calendar.

This year marks an impressive 50th anniversary for the tradition! As always, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by special guests – this time the Strömstedts: singer Niklas Strömstedt and host Jenny Strömstedt. Conductor Alexander Hanson leads the orchestra.

You are warmly encouraged to arrive early. The Konserthuset area opens at 11.00 with children’s activities in our tent. Bring a picnic or enjoy food and refreshments available on site. The Philharmonic in the Green is presented in collaboration with the Royal National City Park and Dagens Nyheter.

The trailblazing guitarist returns to Konserthuset. Pat Metheny has had a remarkably long career by now, yet his curiosity has never waned. Few, if any, can match his versatility. A true musical explorer, he has engaged in numerous collaborations over the years – often beyond the realm of jazz. Metheny has performed with the likes of Ornette Coleman and Herbie Hancock but has also worked with Steve Reich and David Bowie, to name just a few.

At Konserthuset Stockholm, he presents his latest album, Dream Box (2023) – a collection of solo pieces recorded over several years while on tour, based on musical ideas he stumbled upon on a long-forgotten hard drive.

Metheny has a habit of quickly recording ideas as they emerge. “As I listened through these sessions, I gradually began to sift through the material and realised that a coherent whole was taking shape. I discovered that, without meaning to, I had arrived at a destination I hadn’t planned – and I’m looking forward to sharing what was hidden there.”

Pat Metheny made his debut at Konserthuset Stockholm in 1989 and last visited us in 2022.