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.

New Zealand-born Gemma New is Music Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of New’s 2024/2025 season include her debut with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, BBC National Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, and Prague Philharmonia.

In her third season as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, New conducted a string of performances, featuring Lyell Cresswell’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and the New Zealand premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Asteroid.

Among her recent season highlights, New made debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony and Orchestre National de France. In May 2024 she led two acclaimed programs with the San Francisco Symphony and with the Seattle Symphony. Her 2024 summer highlights included the world premiere performances of Huang Ruo’s City of Floating Sounds with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and a return to The BBC Proms for a second straight year with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

New is the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award and was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2024.

Discovered by Claudio Abbado and Vladimir Ashkenazy and signed by Decca when he was 17 years old, Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski went on to perform, collaborate, and record with world’s leading orchestras and conductors, taking his place among the leading pianists of his generation. During the last 30 years on international stages he has performed with over 150 orchestras, given over 2000 concerts, and has been on 30 tours of Japan.

Forthcoming appearances include recitals at Wigmore Hall in London and Seoul Arts Centre. Recent appearances include Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Marie Jacquot, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lawrence Foster, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott.

Jablonski has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Bacewicz, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. His recordings have earned him numerous accolades, including the Edison Award for Best Concerto, the Gramophone Classical Music Award, and the French Academy Charles Cros Award for Contemporary Music. His recent releases feature the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin and piano works by Ronald Stevenson.

Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. In 2022 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.  ​