40 YEARS OF MUSIC: ONE CHOIR, FORTY PARTS
The Swedish Radio Choir and conductor Andrew Manze are, as the conductor himself would describe, a match made in heaven. After several highly rated collaborations, Manze will be leading the choir’s jubilee concert for Berwaldhallen’s 40th anniversary, with Thomas Tallis’s 40-part Spem in alium and Anders Hillborg’s legendary Mouyayoum, as well as Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, the very first choral piece to be performed at Berwaldhallen. Do not miss this unique concert, which we promise will also offer a surprise or two. The concert will be livestreamed at Play.
Participants
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.
Engelske dirigenten och violinisten Andrew Manze hyllas som en av sin generations mest inspirerande dirigenter med en kombination av både bred och djup repertoarkännedom, sällsynt kommunikationsförmåga och en osviklig utstrålning. Han var chefsdirigent för NDR Radiophilharmonie, Nordtyska radions symfoniorkester 2014–2023 och sedan 2018 är han förste gästdirigent för Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Han är återkommande gäst vid Mostly Mozart Festival i New York City och har den senaste tiden arbetat med orkestrar som Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Mozarteumorkestern i Salzburg, Concertgebouworkestern och Finska radions symfoniorkester, och lett Chamber Orchestra of Europe på turné i Tyskland.
Med NDR Radiophilharmonie har Andrew Manze gjort prisbelönta inspelningar av verk av Felix Mendelssohn och Mozart. Han har även spelat in Ralph Vaughan Williams samtliga symfonier med Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. I november 2016 beskrevs han av The Telegraph som ”den bäste av alla nu levande Vaughan Williams-uttolkare”. Han är också verksam som lärare, musikskribent och redaktör, Fellow vid Royal Academy of Music och gästprofessor vid Norges musikhögskola i Oslo.
Marc Korovitch studied at the Sorbonne, the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. Among his mentors were Denis Rouger, Celso Antunes, Michael Gläser, Dominique Rouits, and Colin Metters.
He is regularly invited by various choirs, including ACCENTUS, the Radio France Choir, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Croatian Radio Choir, the NDR Chor, the Europa Chor Akademie, the WDR Chor, the English Voices, the Community of Madrid Choir, the Serbian Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and the Netherlands Radio Choir.
Korovitch is the youngest conductor to have conducted the Concerto Köln in Germany and on tour in Italy and Poland. He frequently conducts the Hague Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Baroque Orchestra, the Berliner Sinfonietta, the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra, the Montpellier National Orchestra, and the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra RTVE.
He collaborates with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Herbert Blomstedt, Klaus Mäkelä, Daniel Harding, Lahav Shani, Gustavo Dudamel, Alan Gilbert, Philippe Jordan, Louis Langrée, Leonardo García Alarcón, Laurence Equilbey, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jaap van Zweden in halls such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Theater an der Wien, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Lincoln Center in New York, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Tokyo Opera City, and during major festivals such as the Radio-France festival in Montpellier, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, and the Mostly Mozart festival in New York.
He was conductor of the Jeune Chœur de Paris from 2017 to 2024 and principal conductor of the Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris between 2022 and 2023. In 2019, he was appointed choir master of the Swedish Radio Choir, chief conductor of the Orchestre Colonne in september 2022, of the Montenegro Symphony Orchestra in 2023, and of the Spanish Radio and Television Choir RTVE in 2024.
Passionate about teaching, Korovitch was a professor of choir conducting at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and at the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne Billancourt for seven years.
Programme
Approximate concert length: 2 hours (with intermission)
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