SCORE – Orchestral Game Music
Go on a musical journey from spellbinding fantasy lands to the most remote corners of the universe with Orvar Säfström, soprano Sabina Zweiacker, and conductor Charles Hazlewood, who are returning to Berwaldhallen with music from some of the coolest computer and video games!
As early as in the infancy of home computers and game consoles in the 1980s, music started to evolve into an important part of the best loved games. Titles such as Super Mario Bros, Zelda, and many others have left indelible impressions in many a gamer. Today’s game composers, like Jeremy Soule and Austin Wintory do, unlike their predecessors, have unlimited opportunities to release their creativity and tell a story with music in a way that is unique for the game medium. Discover new worlds, or remember old favourites with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all of Sweden’s symphony orchestra!
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.
Orvar Säfström var under flera år programledare för bland annat Filmkrönikan i SVT. Han har mottagit Svenska Videobranschens hederspris och dessutom utnämnts till Årets Spelare av SVEROK för sitt arbete med att uppmärksamma spelkulturen. Sedan 2006 producerar han bejublade och kritikerrosade konserter med musik ur film, tv-serier och datorspel i Sverige och Europa. Som författare och förläggare ligger han även bakom flera böcker om svensk spelhistoria och den rika svenska spelkulturen.
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.
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