Niklas and Radioapan - In the past
The radio and sound loving Radio Monkey ventures far away from his tree house in the Fairytale Forest together with Niklas Riesbeck and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Accompanied by thrilling and cool music, from genuine classics to exciting new music, every moment spent with the Radio Monkey is a fresh and unpredictable adventure.
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.
Anna-Maria Helsing has gained an outstanding reputation with leading Scandinavian orchestras and opera houses. Simultaneously to her studies in the class of Leif Segerstam the Finnish conductor was chosen to take part in the International Conductor’s Academy Allianz to be trained by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
From 2010 to 2013 Anna-Maria Helsing was Chief Conductor of the Oulu Symphony – the first-ever female conductor at the head of a Finnish symphony orchestra.
Within a short time the Finnish conductor has conducted all the major Finnish and Swedish orchestras including the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony and Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. She also conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, Iceland Symphony, Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony, Odense Symphony, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra among others.
Anna-Maria Helsing has been Assistant Conductor at the Finnish National Opera and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2006/07. In 2008 she made her debut at the Finnish National Opera. Further engagements have led her to the Tampere Opera and Opera Vaasa.
She started her career as a violinist and has been leading chamber orchestras before serving as conductor of the Wegelius Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Pietarsaari Sinfonietta.
I egenskap av regissör och manusförfattare har Niklas arbetat med en rad olika produktioner. I samarbete med Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester skriver, regisserar och framför han den populära barnproduktionen Niklas & Radioapan i Berwaldhallen. För Gävle Symfoniorkester, Malmö Symfoniorkester och Jönköpings Sinfonietta har han flertalet gånger ansvarat för både manus och regi, samt medverkat som värd och solist.
Han har skrivit och regisserat sångföreställningarna På Jakt och You, I Like! Den senare turnerade han med tillsammans med musikalartisten Gunilla Backman och pianisten Andreas Landegren. För Kammaropera Syd regisserade han Läderlappen – En barock operett på Ystad Teater, som även filmades och sändes i Sveriges Television. Han har skrivit manus till musikalen ENSAMWARG med musik av Nils-Petter Ankarblom, som han även skrivit sångtexterna med.
Som musikalartist har han skapat huvudroller i ett flertal svenska uruppsättningar: På Malmö Opera Jag blir nog aldrig bjuden dit igen och Dåliga mänskor; på Östgötateatern Camera; samt på Örebro Länsteater Lasse-Maja. Han spelade Tom i den svenska originaluppsättningen av musikalen Mamma Mia! För den svenska originaluppsättningen av musikalen Billy Elliot ansvarade Niklas för barnskådespelarnas teaterutbildning 2015–2017. Därefter arbetade han som skådespelarcoach för barnen inför Malmö Operas uppsättning av Matilda ‒ The Musical.
Niklas är återkommande gästpedagog på Stockholms Musikalartistutbildning där han specialiserat sig på interpretation och gestaltning av verk skrivna av Stephen Sondheim.
More concerts
BEETHOVEN'S NINTH
Ludwig van Beethoven’s magnificent Symphony No. 9 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir and a world-class soloist quartet.
SING-ALONG FOR EVERYONE
We sing popular Swedish children’s songs about feelings together with Täby Musikklasser and sing-along leader Johan Pejler!
BEETHOVEN’S EIGHTH SYMPHONY
In his first concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Portuguese conductor Dinis Sousa plays powerful and poignant music by Joseph Haydn, Kaija Saariaho and Ludwig van Beethoven.