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.

Joana Mallwitz has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the start of the 2023/2024 season, making her the first woman to lead one of Berlin’s major orchestras. Since her acclaimed debut at the 2020 Salzburg Festival with Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’, Mallvitz has enjoyed great success with new productions at the Semperoper Dresden, the Nationale Opera Amsterdam, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera and the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen.

She is a regular guest with major orchestras worldwide. These include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouworkestre Amsterdam, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Her debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera New York are scheduled for the 2024/2025 season.

Joana Mallwitz is an exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon and dedicates her first joint CD project with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin to the works of Kurt Weill.

With the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, she can be heard in the 2024/202 5season at the Musikfest Berlin, a guest performance in Dortmund and on a European tour in Essen, Antwerp and Zurich, among others, in addition to the subscription concerts.

The first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2007 marked the beginning of Anna Vinnitskaya’s international career. Her debuts with international top orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Munich Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, to name a few, led to immediate re-invitations.. She is a valued partner of leading conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Krzysztof Urbański, Alan Gilbert and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Piano recitals regularly take her to the major concert halls in Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Florence and Tokyo.

In the 2023/2024 season, Anna Vinnitskaya made her first guest appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra together with Joana Mallwitz. A renewed collaboration with Iván Fischer took her to the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with whom she also performed in China for the first time. Another highlight was the cyclical performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg alongside the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in the fall of 2023. The Flagey in Brussels entrusted Anna Vinnitskaya with the conception of Piano Days 2024 and as Artist-in-Residence” of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, she worked with Antonello Manacorda and led the ensemble from the piano in a program of piano concertos by Bach and Shostakovich.

CD recordings by Anna Vinnitskaya have won numerous awards such as the Diapason d’Or and the Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Previous releases include a Rachmaninoff album with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and Krzysztof Urbański as well as the recording of Bach’s piano concertos together with Evgeni Koroliov, Ljupka Hadzi Georgieva and the Kammerakademie Potsdam (Alpha Classics/Outhere Music).

Anna Vinnitskaya was born in Novorossiysk, Russia. She studied with Sergei Osipienko in Rostov and then with Evgeni Koroliov at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, where she herself has been a professor since 2009.