The Swedish Radio Choir and Sweden’s Youth Choir

Since 2011, Sweden’s association for children’s and young people’s choirs, UNGiKÖR, runs national youth choir Sweden’s Youth Choir, consisting of young, ambitious choral singers from across the country. The choir meets a few times every year, and performs in Sweden and across the world. Since 2015, the choir is led by Cecilia Martin-Löf. The concert programme includes music by Alfred Schnittke and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae, which was written to commemorate the Estonia disaster. The concert is part of the Swedish Radio Choir’s explicit ambition to encourage and stimulate a new generation of listeners and musical practitioners.