Epiphany concert 2018
Ring out the old and sing in the new with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir, alongside exciting guest artists from the international music stage!
Start the year with music at Berwaldhallen’s Epiphany concert; an exciting and varied programme with festive and colourful music. The arrival of the New Year is celebrated across the world with music and televised concerts. Seize the opportunity to step into the concert hall, and enjoy the music on-site with all of Sweden’s symphony orchestra and choir!
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.
32 professional choristers make up the Swedish Radio Choir: a unique, dynamic instrument hailed by music-lovers and critics all over the world. The Swedish Radio Choir performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, as well as on tours all over the country and the world. Also, they are heard regularly by millions of listeners on Swedish Radio P2, Berwaldhallen Play and globally through the EBU.
The award-winning Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš was appointed Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir in 2020. Since January 2019, its choirmaster is French orchestral and choral conductor Marc Korovitch, with responsibility for the choir’s vocal development.
The Swedish Radio Choir was founded in 1925, the same year as Sweden’s inaugural radio broadcasts, and gave its first concert in May that year. Multiple acclaimed and award-winning albums can be found in the choir’s record catalogue. Late 2023 saw the release of Kaspars Putniņš first album with the choir: Robert Schumann’s Missa sacra, recorded with organist Johan Hammarström.
Finnish pianist, composer and conductor Ville Matvejeff was born in 1986. After studying at the Sibelius Academy and the Espoo Music Institute, he debuted at 18 years of age with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki. It was followed by number of years of touring the world, for example as Lieder accompanist for Karita Mattila. From 2014 he has been the chief conductor of Jyväskyla Sinfonian and the principal guest conductor at the Croatioan National Theatre. Last year he also took over as Artistic Director of the Turku Music Festival.
Sopranen Ida Falk Winland är aktuell säsongen 2023/24 som Donna Anna i Mozarts Don Giovanni på GöteborgsOperan och som Violetta i Verdis La traviata på Kungliga Operan. Föregående säsong framträdde hon som Gilda i Verdis Rigoletto och Mimì i Puccinis La bohème, båda på GöteborgsOperan, där hon sedan 2014 ingår i solistensemblen.
I Göteborg har hon tidigare sjungit bland annat Nedda i Leoncavallos Pajazzo, Grevinnan och Susanna i Mozarts Figaros bröllop, Adalgisa i Bellinis Norma, Morgana i Händels Alcina, Cleopatra i Händels Julius Caesar och Rosina i Rossinis Barberaren i Sevilla. På Kungliga Operan gjorde hon 2018 och 2019 sina rolldebuter som Gilda i Rigoletto, respektive Violetta i La traviata. Bland andra gästspel kan nämnas Fiordiligi i Così fan tutte vid Glyndebourne-festivalen och på Paris nationalopera, First Niece i Peter Grimes på La Scala i Milano, Cunégonde i Candide på Lorraines nationalopera och Cecily i The Importance of Being Earnest på Covent Garden och Lorraines nationalopera.
Falk Winland har arbetat med dirigenter som Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sakari Oramo, Marc Minkowski, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding och Valery Gergiev, och har sjungit med såväl Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester och Göteborgs Symfoniker. Hon har medverkat i inspelningar av Bachs Mässa h-moll med Jonathan Cohen och Haydns Skapelsen med Philipp von Steinaecker, samt spelat in ett soloalbum med sånger av Aaron Copland, Gösta Nystroem och Richard Strauss. 2018 belönades hon med Operapriset av Tidningen Operas läsare för sin insats som Adalgisa i GöteborgsOperans uppsättning av Norma.
Ida Falk Winland har studerat för Lilian Watson vid Royal College of Music och vid National Opera Studio i London då hon även, som en av två särskilt framstående musikstudenter, belönades med den prestigefyllda Tagoremedaljen.
Joachim Bäckström studied at the Opera Academy in Copenhagen, and during his studies made his debut as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen at the Opera in the same city. He has subsequently reprized the role at the Gothenburg Opera, the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, the Finnish National Opera, Malmö Opera and Opera Østfold in Norway. He has also sung the Duke in Rigoletto at NorrlandsOperan and Tamino in The Magic flute at Opera in Geneva and Copenhagen, and then made his debut at the Royal Opera in Stockholm with the same role. Joachim Bäckström has been a soloist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, as well as appearing in the Tokyo Opera City Hall.
He made his role debut last year with a highly acclaimed performance as Siegmund in The Valkyria at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, and this season includes two more iconic title roles, Peter Grimes in David Radok’s new production at the Janáček Theater in Brno, and Don Carlos at Theater Basel.
Barytonen Ola Eliasson tillhör sedan 1997 Kungliga Operans solistensemble och har på Operan gjort ett trettiotal roller i mer än 20 olika operor. Flera Mozartroller: Greve Almaviva i Figaros bröllop, Papageno i Trollflöjten och Guglielmo i Così fan tutte. Därtill Figaro i Gioacchino Rossinis Barberaren i Sevilla, Fanial i Richard Strauss Rosenkavaljeren, Nixon i John Adams Nixon in China, Doktor Malatesta i Gaetano Donizettis Don Pasquale, Amfortas i Richard Wagners Parsifal och Silvio i Ruggiero Leoncavallos Pajazzo.
Han har stått på de flesta av Sveriges största scener. Förutom Kungliga Operan har han även framträtt på GöteborgsOperan, Drottningholms Slottsteater, Folkoperan och Dalhalla, och i Finland även på Finlands Nationalopera samt vid Nyslotts Operafestival. Som konsertsångare har han en bred och varierad repertoar med verk som Carl Orffs Carmina burana, Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Gustav Mahlers lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, samt Bachs Johannespassion och Juloratorium.
Ola Eliasson har studerat vid Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm och Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola. Han är uppvuxen i Skellefteå och spelade slagverk, gitarr, horn och piano innan han valde att satsa på sångarkarriären.
Ella Petersson is the head of music and language at the Swedish Radio P2. Prior to this, Petersson has been the musical editor at SVT, in charge of the classical music and music documentaries, and a well-known host for several TV and radio shows.
Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission
In collaboration with the Swedish Television (SVT).
The concert will be broadcasted on SVT Chanel 2 on January 6, 19.00.
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