SCORE
SCORE the much-acclaimed gaming music concert turns 10 and returns to Berwaldhallen for three concerts. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Hanson, soloist Sabina Zweiacker and host Orvar Säfström once again offer highlights from the magical world of video game music. And for the first time, the Swedish Radio Choir joins the forces!
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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.
Sabina Zweiacker är utbildad vid Musikhögskolan i Malmö och är sedan flera år känd över hela världen för sin medverkan i Orvar Säfströms konsertproduktioner med musik ur filmer och datorspel. Hon gjorde 2014 en av huvudrollerna i Christoffer Nobins barnopera Hion om natten med Norrköpings Symfoniorkester. Hon är lika hemma i film- och spelmusikens fantastiska värld som i de stora repertoarverken som Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem.
Approximate concert length: 2 hours
SCORE is a concert by Overlord Productions in collaboration with Berwaldhallen.
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