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At last, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem returns to Konserthuset in all its full splendour – as conductor Sofi Jeannin makes her debut here. This subscription offers a vibrant mix, with lively Viennese sounds, ballet music and Beethoven at his most dance-like.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
Celebrating 200 years of Johann Strauss II – joined by fellow greats of the genre.
Saturday 11 October 2025 15.00Emily Pogorelc. Photo: Kyle Flubacker
Manfred Honeck. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicMasters of the Waltz
Celebrating 200 years of Johann Strauss II – joined by fellow greats of the genre.
Saturday 11 October 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Masters of the Waltz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Masters of the WaltzThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/masters-of-the-waltz/20251011-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.When it comes to festivity and elegance in the world of music, few names shine brighter than Johann Strauss II. This year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth – celebrated with a concert brimming with sparkling waltzes and whirling polkas.
But Johann Strauss II was not alone in putting the waltz on the map. The programme also features works by other masters of the genre – including Franz Lehár and Franz von Suppè. Making her Konserthuset debut is internationally acclaimed American soprano Emily Pogorelc, performing operetta gems. A golden age in Vienna comes to life – almost like a Viennese New Year’s concert in the autumn darkness.
Frivolous and superficial? Not quite – this music demands great care and finesse to truly soar. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by a connoisseur of the genre: Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck, who grew up with these Viennese delicacies. His early years as a violist with the Vienna Philharmonic have deeply influenced his work as a conductor and his ability to uncover the music’s deeper layers.
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The music
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Music by Johann Strauss Jr., Franz Lehár and Franz von Suppè, among others
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Manfred Honeck conductor
- Emily Pogorelc soprano
Saturday 11 October 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Masters of the WaltzPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
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Ends approximately 20.00
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Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Masters of the Waltz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Masters of the WaltzPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Masters of the Waltz
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Genre: Vocal music, OrganThe Eric Ericson Chamber Choir presents two highly original composers of our time.
Saturday 25 October 2025 15.00
Photo: Markus Gårder
Mattias Wager
Harry Bradford. Photo: Helena Cooke
Genre: Vocal music, OrganArvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir presents two highly original composers of our time.
Saturday 25 October 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Arvo Pärt and Alfred SchnittkeThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/arvo-part-and-alfred-schnittke/20251025-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The atmospheric and deeply spiritual music of Arvo Pärt has made him one of the world’s most performed and beloved composers. Alfred Schnittke, meanwhile, saw himself as a musical link to Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. This concert features works by both composers – music rich in emotional intensity. Arvo Pärt turns 90 this year (on 11 September).
Dopo la vittoria was commissioned from Pärt by the city of Milan, composed in 1997 to mark the 1600th anniversary of the death of Ambrose of Milan. The Beatitudes for choir and organ was the very first work in which Pärt set an English text. We also hear Magnificat – one of Pärt’s most popular choral pieces. Following an organ improvisation by Mattias Wager, organist of Stockholm Cathedral, the Pärt section of the concert concludes with the heavenly Nunc dimittis.
Schnittke’s music is often characterised by surprising stylistic juxtapositions – the rhythmic drive of the Baroque overlaid with more modern sounds. In his Concerto for Choir, a transcendent atmosphere is created by powerful bass lines and sopranos that seem to soar into a whistling register. Schnittke was the featured composer at Konserthuset’s Composer Festival in 1989.
The music in this concert calls for a world-class choir to fully realise its potential – and here we hear the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, conducted by British choral director Harry Bradford, who in 2021 took second place in the prestigious Eric Ericson Award, presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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The music
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Arvo Pärt Dopo la vittoria - Piccola cantata for chorus a cappella11 min
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Arvo Pärt The Beatitudes for chorus and organ7 min
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Arvo Pärt Magnificat for chorus a cappella7 min
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Organ Improvisation5 min
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Arvo Pärt Nunc dimittis for chorus a cappella7 min
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Intermission25 min
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Alfred Schnittke Concerto for chorus a cappella44 min
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Participants
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Harry Bradford conductor
- Mattias Wager organ
Saturday 25 October 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal music
Brahms’s mighty requiem and a song cycle by this season’s featured composer.
Saturday 14 February 2026 15.00Sofi Jeannin. Photo: Christophe Abramowitz/Radio France
Johanna Wallroth. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Sakhiwe Mkosana. Photo: Barbara Aumüller
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Photo: Markus Gårder
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicEin deutsches Requiem
Brahms’s mighty requiem and a song cycle by this season’s featured composer.
Saturday 14 February 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches Requiem
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches RequiemThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/ein-deutsches-requiem/20260214-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.A mass for the living, not for the dead. Johannes Brahms’ powerful and profoundly beautiful Ein deutsches Requiem – A German Requiem – for orchestra, choir and soloists is a work of deep humanity and hope. This concert also marks the debut of highly acclaimed Swedish conductor Sofi Jeannin with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sofi Jeannin enjoys an international career and is particularly renowned for her expertise in vocal music. She is Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers and of Ars Nova Copenhagen. She has also led the choir school Maîtrise de Radio France for many years, and previously served as Chief Conductor of the French Radio Choir.
In Ein deutsches Requiem, Brahms selected Biblical texts himself rather than using the traditional Roman Catholic mass for the dead. The concert opens with music by this season’s featured composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla. Her exquisite Un clin d’œil for baritone and orchestra is set to French texts by Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1903–1937) – a writer to whom she has returned frequently for inspiration.
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The music
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Tebogo Monnakgotla Un clin d’œil for baritone and symphony orchestra (Version II)20 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem73 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sofi Jeannin conductor
- Johanna Wallroth soprano
- Sakhiwe Mkosana baritone
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Saturday 14 February 2026 15.00
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250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
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Ends approximately 21.00
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Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches Requiem
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches RequiemPrice:
250-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Ein deutsches Requiem
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraA violin concerto in disguise and a fantastic symphony.
Saturday 21 March 2026 15.00
Clara-Jumi Kang. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBernstein and Berlioz
A violin concerto in disguise and a fantastic symphony.
Saturday 21 March 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Bernstein and Berlioz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Bernstein and BerliozThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/bernstein-and-berlioz/20260321-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Violinist Clara-Jumi Kang returns to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra several times this season – this is her third production with the orchestra, each time under the baton of Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft, with whom she has frequently collaborated in recent years.
Born in Germany and of South Korean heritage, Clara-Jumi Kang was recognised early on as a prodigy. She began playing the violin at the age of three and was admitted to the Mannheim University of Music at four – the youngest student ever in the institution’s history.
This time, we hear Clara-Jumi Kang in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade for violin, strings, harp and percussion, composed in 1954. It is a colourful work inspired by Plato’s Symposium, with each movement reflecting one of the philosophical speakers in the dialogue. Bernstein blends neoclassical clarity with jazz-inflected vitality. The Serenade is one of his most personal compositions and a central work in the violin repertoire – essentially a violin concerto in disguise.
Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a work ablaze with energy, passion and feverish desire. It tells the story of a young, sensitive musician who, in despair, poisons himself with opium. The object of his love becomes a recurring melody – an idée fixe – that haunts him throughout the symphony.
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The music
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Leonard Bernstein Serenade for violin and orchestra31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique52 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Clara-Jumi Kang violin
Saturday 21 March 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Bernstein and Berlioz
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160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Other 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Bernstein and Berlioz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Bernstein and BerliozPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Bernstein and Berlioz
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Konserthuset Stockholm celebrates its centenary with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and a world premiere.
Saturday 11 April 2026 15.00Senja Rummukainen
Andrew Manze
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra100 Years in Blue
Konserthuset Stockholm celebrates its centenary with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and a world premiere.
Saturday 11 April 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BlueThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/100-years-in-blue/20260411-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In the spring of 1926, Konserthuset Stockholm was inaugurated – architect Ivar Tengbom’s blue building remains one of the finest examples of Swedish 1920s neoclassicism. It was one of the country’s very first buildings constructed specifically for orchestral music, and it also became the new home of the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
Konserthuset was built to provide a permanent home for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, which at the time had already been active for over two decades. Until then, the orchestra had primarily been based in the Auditorium – a converted gas holder near Norra Bantorget. At the inaugural concert on 7 April 1926, the programme included Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. This is the direct reason why, nearly 100 years later to the day, the same work features once again on the programme.
Yes, Konserthuset Stockholm is turning 100, and the 2026/27 season will be a celebratory one (marking 100 years of the building and 125 years of the orchestra). Alongside Beethoven’s Seventh, the concert also features Hilding Rosenberg’s Dance Suite from the ballet Orpheus in the City – a story about the statue of Orpheus on Hötorget, just outside the Konserthuset, suddenly coming to life and fleeing the square. The suite was premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in the spring of 1940.
The concert also includes the world premiere of a new cello concerto by this season’s featured composer, Tebogo Monnakgotla. The soloist is Finnish cellist Senja Rummukainen, making her debut with the orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze – a cherished and frequent guest of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
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The music
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Hilding Rosenberg Dance Suite from Orpheus in Town12 min
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Tebogo Monnakgotla Cello Concerto (World Premiere)
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 735 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andrew Manze conductor
- Senja Rummukainen cello
Saturday 11 April 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BluePrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Other 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in BluePrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to 100 Years in Blue
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft and a superb Finnish violinist.
Saturday 9 May 2026 15.00Pekka Kuusisto. Photo: Bard Gundersen
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraAppalachian Spring
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft and a superb Finnish violinist.
Saturday 9 May 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Appalachian Spring
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Appalachian SpringThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprod.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/appalachian-spring/20260509-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland vividly and colourfully depicts a spring day in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. This ballet score portrays a pioneer community in the early 1900s, following a young man as he marries and settles down to build a home.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft: “It’s probably one of the pieces I’ve conducted the most in my life. And I’ve even danced in the ballet – I played the Evangelist. Most people perform the suite in concert, but I prefer the complete score, which has a clearer arc. It’s a work written during wartime, but that’s not reflected in the suite – the 11-minute battle scene is omitted. Is it a literal battle or one taking place inside someone’s mind? There’s a surreal quality to it that’s quite exciting.”
The concert opens with Jesper Nordin’s Convergence for solo violin, orchestra, live electronics and live visuals – created in collaboration with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the phenomenal violinist Pekka Kuusisto, who also performs as soloist. The work is the result of their shared fascination with different artistic expressions and musical genres. Convergence was premiered in San Francisco in 2023 and is a co-commission by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony.
Between Convergence and Appalachian Spring, we hear the rhapsody Midvintera by Wilhelm Stenhammar – a depiction of a snow-covered Nordic landscape. This romantically evocative work, with touches of Swedish folk melody, hasn’t been performed at Konserthuset Stockholm since the 1950s.
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The music
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Jesper Nordin Convergence - for solo violin, orchestra, live electronics and live visuals (Co-commission by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Wilhelm Stenhammar Midwinter14 min
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Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring - Ballet, orchestral version (1954)33 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Pekka Kuusisto violin
Saturday 9 May 2026 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Appalachian Spring
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Appalachian SpringPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
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Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Appalachian Spring
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Appalachian SpringPrice:
160-490 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students and pensioners. 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.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Appalachian Spring
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Appalachian Spring
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