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.

Daniel Harding is Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, with whom in 2022 he celebrated his 15-year anniversary. In the 2014/2015 season, he devised and curated the celebrated Interplay Festival, featuring concerts and related inspirational talks with renowned artists and academics. As Artistic Director, he continues this type of influential programming. Harding is also Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years, and Music Director of Youth Music Culture, The Greater Bay Area in China. The 2024/2025 season will be his first as Music Director at the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Harding is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In the US, he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. A renowned opera conductor, he has led acclaimed productions at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and at the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals. He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, the Anima Mundi festival of Pisa, and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Daniel Harding tours regularly with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing at prestigious venues all over Europe and the world, and has recorded several acclaimed and award-winning albums with the orchestra. His tenure as Music and Artistic Director will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. “It is increasingly rare that the relationship between a conductor and an orchestra not only lasts for more than a decade, but keeps growing,” he says about working with the orchestra.

In 2002, Harding was awarded the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government, and in 2017 nominated to the position Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Daniel Harding grew up in Oxford, England, and played trumpet before taking up conducting in his late teens. He is also, since 2016, a qualified airline pilot.

For years, Swedish born Nina Stemme has been considered a leading singer of the most challenging parts in major dramas: Isolde, Brünnhilde and Kundry, Salome and Elektra, Fanciulla and Turandot.

Stemme is an artist who is in demand all over the world. Whether at the Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala Milan, the Bayreuth Festival, the Vienna State Opera or the Royal Opera House in London – Nina Stemme has furthered the great tradition of Flagstad and Nilsson at leading opera houses.

She has been appointed Swedish Court Singer and Austrian “Kammersängerin”, received the “Premio Abbiati” critics’ award (2010), the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2010), the International Opera Award for the Best Female Singer (2013) and the Opera News Award (2013), to name but a few. The German specialist journal “Opernwelt” has crowned her Singer of the Year twice, in 2005 and 2012 and in 2018 she received the largest prize in the history of classical music; The Birgit Nilsson Prize.

Alongside the Tristan recording with Plácido Domingo as Tristan, and conducted by Antonio Pappano, Nina Stemme’s performance of Isolde has also been documented in the form of a live recording from Berlin under Marek Janowski as well as a television recording of her Glyndebourne performance by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Her rendition of Walküre Brünnhilde is available as as a video recording of the La Scala production under Daniel Barenboim. The diversity and bandwidth of her repertoire is manifested in her interpretations of Zemlinsky’s König Kandaules, Aida, Jenufa, Der Rosenkavalier, and La Fanciulla del West.

Nina Stemme made her successful debut as «Dyer’s wife» in the anniversary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Vienna State Opera May 2019, and has thus added another great Strauss role to her repertoire.

Christian Gerhaher studerade vid Hochschule für Musik und Theater München med Paul Kuën, Raimun Grumbach och Friedemann Berger. Han deltog även i mästarklasser med bland andra Dieter Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf och Inge Borkh. I dag undervisar han i sångtolkning vid sitt alma mater och vid Royal Academy of Music i London.

Gerhaher och pianisten Gerold Huber har samarbetat i över 30 år och uppträtt på stora internationella scener och festivaler. Som solist arbetar han ofta med framstående dirigenter inklusive Daniel Harding, Sir Simon Rattle och Herbert Blomstedt samt med orkestrar som Berliner Philharmoniker, där han var den första sångaren att inneha titeln Artist in Residence.

Höjdpunkter från de senaste säsongerna inkluderar framträdanden med Sir Simon Rattle och Kiril Petrenko tillsammans med Berliner Philharmoniker och hans debut som Wolfram i Wagners Tannhäuser vid Metropolitan Opera. Denna säsong fokuserar hans sångrecitaler på Robert Schumann och han kommer att framträda tillsammans med Julia Kleiter i Dublin, Cambridge, Dallas, Montreal och Princeton samt under en Asienturné i mars 2025.

Niklas Björling Rygert är utbildad vid NBV teaterverkstad, Operastudio 67 och Operahögskolan i Stockholm.

Han är Sveriges ledande karaktärstenor och har tillhört den fasta ensemblen vid Kungliga Operan i Stockholm sedan 1999 där han sjungit över 50 roller i 900 föreställningar. Allt från Herodes i Salome till idioten i Wozzeck.

Hans Mime i Siegfried 2006 gav honom internationell uppmärksamhet och tog honom till Valencia där han sjöng Mime i Rhenguldet och Siegfried 2008 och 2009 under ledning av Zubin Mehta.

Sedan dess har Niklas gästspelat i Norge, Danmark, Tyskland, Holland, Polen, Spanien, Italien och Israel.

Niklas har fått flera utmärkelser, bl.a. Operavännernas stipendium, Frimurarstipendiet, Uno Stjernqvists stipendium och Gunn Wållgrens stipendium.

2017 vann han tidskriften Operas ”Operapriset” för sin Mime i Siegfried på Stockholmsoperan.