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.

Gudrun Dahlkvist has conducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in professional engagements (which she will return to) and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Gävle Symphony Orchestra in masterclasses. Her rapidly spreading reputation has led to recent bookings from the Royal Philharmonic of Stockholm,

Dahlkvist was born in Stockholm and studied violin at the Royal College of Music in her native city and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, before beginning her conducting studies in Sweden with B. Tommy Andersson. During the season 2022/23 she is mentoree conductor at Helsingborgs Konserthus.

Adding to her burgeoning experience with symphony orchestras, Dahlkvist recently made her debut at Malmö Opera, conducting a sold out hall with full audience for the first time in the opera house since after the pandemic. Her repertoire ranges from early to contemporary music and her varied experience in professional orchestral settings has equipped her with unusually sharp communicative abilities and taught her efficient rehearsal strategies. As a freelance violinist, she appeared in a concertmaster position with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, as well as regularly guesting with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. In 2019, Gudrun Dahlkvist was awarded Musik i Linköping’s biennial Crusell Stipend.

Malin William-Olsson är sedan 2011 anställd i Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester som alternerande stämledare i andrafiolstämman. Hon har tidigare varit andre konsertmästare i Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester och är utbildad i både Sverige och Tyskland. Internationellt har hon spelat mycket med bland andra Mahler Chamber Orchestra och kammarorkestern Spira mirabilis.

Som kammarmusiker är hon mycket aktiv på både violin och viola. Hon är medlem i de internationellt ryktbara ensemblerna Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble och Messiaen Quartet Copenhagen. Hon har nyligen tagit över stafettpinnen som konstnärlig ledare för Båstad Kammarmusikfestival under 2024–2026.

Julia Kretz-Larsson is the assistant first concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2015. She is also a member of the chamber music ensemble Spectrum Concerts Berlin who, in addition to having their own concert series at the Berlin Phiharmonic, has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She is a former member of both the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

She is also an active chamber musician, having performed with Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Cecilia Zilliacus, Torleif Thedéen and others, and played at internationally renowned festivals in Salzburg, Utrecht and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the Schubertiade in Voralberg and Vinterfest in Mora, Sweden. She has recorded chamber works for labels such as BIS, dB and Harmonia Mundi, and the 2018 album Amanda Maier vol. 3 was awarded a Swedish Grammy Award. As a member of the Julius Stern Piano Trio, she has won prizes at international competitions in Florence, Berlin and Trieste.

Julia Kretz-Larsson teacher violin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She is a Berlin native, has studied under Professor Marianne Boettcher, under Professor Thomas Brandis at the Berlin University of the Arts, and in Prague for Josef Suk.

In 2022 the soprano Karin Mobacke was cover for Gerda in Snödrottningen at The Royal Opera in Stockholm and cover for Leocasta and Fortuna in Il Giustino at Drottningholm slottsteater. At Vadstena-Akademien July 2022 she sang Eritrea in ’’Il colore fa la regina’’ by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo and in autumn 2022 she participated in Livets bok by S.D Sandström with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. Mobacke has studied Music and Opera at Mälardalen University.

Mattias Gunnari (b. 1988) is a freelance tenor based in Stockholm. Gunnari graduated from Stockholms University of Arts in 2021 where he studied with Erik Årman och Anita Soldh. He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University.

Gunnari has also studied with among others Olle Persson, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson and Jonatan Lönnqvist. He has received a number of scholarships including the 2018 Bayreuth scholarship. During the 2021-2022 season, Gunnari made his debut at the Royal Opera as the Prince in Benjamin Staern’s Snödrottningen (the Snow Queen). In addition to his scenic activities he is a very sought after soloist for the concert and church repertoire.

The talented young baritone Arvid Eriksson now returns to the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Berwaldhallen where he made his debut in 2021 performing Faurés Requiem. This year he will also make his debut with Västerås Sinfonietta and meet the award-winning Ensemble Correspondances for the first time.

Born in Uddevalla in 1998,  Eriksson currently lives in Stockholm, where he graduated from The Royal College of Music in 2021. His teachers during the training have been, among others, Petteri Salomaa and Erik Årman. He also holds a degree in church music. He began his professional career at the age of sixteen, singing with the renowned ensemble Göteborg Baroque, of which he was also a member until 2022. Arvid has focused on the performance of art song and concert. Among the highlights of 2022 were performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and a tour of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder in an arrangement for baritone and piano quartet.

Eriksson’s extensive concert repertoire includes works by Bach such as the St John’s Passion, St Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, B-minor Mass and several cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation and Stabat Mater, Requiems by Brahms, Mozart, Fauré, Duruflé and others, as well as works by Beethoven, Britten, Monteverdi, Roman, Larsson and many more.

Eriksson has performed a number of well-known song cycles, including Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Liederkreis op. 24, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel. He also frequently performs lieder by Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, Ravel, Sibelius, and Finzi, among others. Closest to his heart, however, are the Swedish art songs, many of which he has performed, including songs by Stenhammar, Rangström, and Peterson-Berger.