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.

Den franske oboisten Emmanuel Laville är stämledare i Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester sedan hösten 2011. Dessförinnan var han stämledare i Royal Scottish National Orchestra åren 2008–2011. Han gör återkommande gästspel i orkestrar runt om i Europa såsom Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Concertgebouworkestern i Amsterdam, Bayerska radions symfoniorkester och Londons symfoniorkester.

Laville är dessutom aktiv som kammarmusiker, bland annat i Trio Nastela tillsammans med fagottisten Sebastian Stevensson och pianisten Asuka Nakamura. Han har även uruppfört verk för oboe och stråktrio av Madeleine Isaksson, Maria Lithell Flyg och Sven-David Sandström.

Emmanuel Laville är oboelektor vid Konstuniversitetets Sibelius-Akademi i Helsingfors och undervisar även vid Kungl. Musikhögskolan och Lilla Akademien i Stockholm. Han har själv studerat i Frankrike och Tyskland och erhöll 2011 första pris i den prestigefyllda internationella Gillet-Fox-tävlingen.