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.

Donald Nally is responsible for imagining, programming, commissioning, and conducting The Crossing of Philadelphia; he is the John W. Beattie Chair in Music and director of choral organizations at Northwestern University; he has served as chorus master for Lyric Opera of Chicago, Welsh National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Spoleto USA, The Chicago Bach Project, Haymarket Opera Company, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. He is the recipient of the distinguished alumni merit award from Westminster Choir College, and both the Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal and the Michael Korn Founders Award from Chorus America; he is the only conductor to have two ensembles receive the Margaret Hillis Award for Excellence in Choral Music: The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia and The Crossing.

Johanna Sjunnesson har sedan 1999 sin hemvist som cellist i Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester och rör sig även vant bortom orkestermusikens gränser. Som solist har hon framträtt i Berwaldhallen, på Konserthuset, Cirkus och i Blå hallen, på Grammisgalan och Polarprisbanketten, där hon framträtt med egenkomponerad musik.

I sina egna kompositioner inspireras Johanna av olika genrer, från från barock och klassisk musik till ambient och electronica. Hennes musik har spelats i både radio och tv, och hösten 2023 släpps en skiva med musik för solocello och en i ambient-stil inspelad med Islandsbaserade Mikael Lind. Lind medverkar även på EP:n Celistial släppt 2021, där Johanna tolkar musik av bland andra Marin Marais, Henry Purcell och Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johanna Sjunnesson studerade vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan för Elemér Lavotha, samt utomlands genom flera stora stipendier.