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The Swedish Radio Choir and the Royal College of Music

The choral conductors and composers of tomorrow in a dynamic meeting with one of the world’s foremost choirs. Meet the Royal College of Music’s choral conducting and composition students in a concert with the Swedish Radio Choir.

Graduating students from the Royal College of Music’s choral conducting programme perform well-known pieces from the choral repertoire in a unique opportunity to lead a world-class vocal ensemble. New pieces by the school’s composition students will also be performed, giving them the opportunity to really explore the possibilities of the choir as an ensemble. The concert is part of the Swedish Radio Choir’s explicit ambition to encourage and stimulate a new generation of listeners and musical practitioners.


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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.