Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
One of Europe's foremost and most versatile orchestras
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is an established and leading force in the music world, with a broad repertoire and innovative collaborations. Having flourished under the leadership of Daniel Harding, the orchestra now looks ahead to a new chapter with Andrés Orozco-Estrada as Musical Director and Maxim Emelyanychev as Principal Guest Conductor.
Known as the Radio Symphonics in everyday speech, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has left a major mark on the music world. Its repertoire includes both the great classical works and exciting new music, and in collaborations with many of the world's leading composers, conductors and soloists there is a constant striving to break new ground. The orchestra has received countless prizes and awards, their tours have been celebrated both in Europe and globally, and they can also boast an extensive and critically acclaimed catalog of records.
A new Music director and Principal Guest Conductor
Starting with the 2026/2027 season, Andrés Orozco-Estrada assumes the role of Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He succeeds Daniel Harding, who held the position for nearly 20 years.
During the 2025/2026 season, the orchestra welcomed Maxim Emelyanychev as Principal Guest Conductor. He continues in this role, and will lead a number of concerts throughout the 2026/2027 season. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will also be joined by a host of other internationally renowned conductors, including George Benjamin, Marta Gardolińska, Thomas Adès, Kazuki Yamada, Eva Ollikainen and Anja Bilhmaier. Now honorary conductor Daniel Harding will also take the helm during the season.
Photo: Mattias Ahlm/Sveriges Radio
Members of the OrchestraOrchestra membersJust over a hundred instrumentalists make up the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. You can find them here.
Read moreAndrés Orozco-EstradaIn autumn 2026, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will begin a new era with Andrés Orozco-Estrada as its Music Director. With roots in Colombia, education in Vienna, and extensive experience from some of the world’s leading orchestras, he brings musical brilliance, warmth, and a strong desire to make music accessible to more people.
Read moreFanny Robilliard to be the new 1st Concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraFanny Robilliard joins the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra as 1st Concertmaster, alongside Malin Broman.
To the playlistListen to the Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraYou can often hear the orchestra play on Swedish Radio P2 and in the Sveriges Radio Play app. Below is a curated playlist from the record catalog. ↓
The orchestra has an incredible humility towards the music and a wonderful sense of musical imagination and inventiveness.
Daniel Harding
All of Sweden’s symphony orchestra
From its home stage in Berwaldhallen, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra reaches the entire country via Swedish Radio P2. Many concerts can also be seen on Berwaldhallen Play, SVT and SVT Play, and internationally the concerts are broadcast through the EBU, which means that the orchestra’s music reaches a global audience. In this way, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra of all of Sweden.
Ahead of the orchestra’s guest appearance at the BBC Proms 2014, chief conductor Daniel Harding was asked why they stand out from the crowd: “The orchestra has an incredible humility towards the music and a wonderful sense of musical imagination and inventiveness,” he said. The orchestra has been recognized several times for the musicians’ rare feeling and sensitivity. With the orchestra members’ distinct interaction and musical inventiveness, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will continue to be at the musical forefront on the world’s great stages.
Music directors and Conductor Laureates
Music director:
Andrés Orozco-Estrada 2026-
Daniel Harding 2007-2025
Manfred Honeck 2000-2006
Jevgenij Svetlanov 1996-1999
Esa-Pekka Salonen 1984-1995
Herbert Blomstedt 1977-1982
Sergiu Celibidache 1965-1971
Conductor Laureates:
Daniel Harding
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Herbert Blomstedt
Carlo Maria Giuliniu
A note on the orchestra's name and history
Orchestral music has existed in Swedish Radio since the very first day of broadcasting in January 1925. The radio orchestra has changed its name and form several times during its lifetime. In 1965, the then Radio Orchestra merged with Radio service's TV Orchestra to form a symphony orchestra with over 100 members under the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache. In March 1967, the orchestra finally received the name it still bears today: Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra).
Maxim Emelyanchev - principal guest conductor
Maxim Emelyanychev has been the Chief Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since 2019 and the Chief Conductor of the baroque orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro since 2013. In the 2025/2026 season he will also take on the role of Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Work in Berwaldhallen
Do you dream of playing in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, singing in the Radio Choir, becoming part of our marketing team, providing excellent service to concertgoers or working with the Berwaldhallen administration?
Orchestra biography
Read the biography of the Radio Symphony Orchestra. More material is also available in the Berwaldhallen press room (scroll down for link).
Follow the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Follow the orchestra and their work! The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra can be found both on Facebook and Instagram under @swedishradiosymphony
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Listen to musical highlights with our beloved ensembles
On this page, we’ve gathered selected concerts featuring the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir.
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Press
Karl Thorson, press and PR Berwaldhallen
Telephone: +46 70 431 18 93
Email: karl.thorson@sverigesradio.se
Press releases and press photos from concerts are available in the Berwaldhallen press room.
Upcoming concerts with the orchestra
Few seats remaining1-3 okt130 - 475 krLove of my life — Nils Landgren & friends
Jazz legend Nils Landgren joins musicians and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at Berwaldhallen for an evening featuring music from the album...
7–8 October100 - 420 krFrom cello glow to Slavonic dances — with Gardolinska & Koranyi
Marta Gardolińska leads the Swedish world-renowned cellist Jakob Koranyi and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Camille Saint-Saëns' beloved first cello concerto – a work that combines virtuoso elegance and dramatic heat.
15–16 October130 - 475 krMozart, Liszt & Dante’s Inferno — med Adès, Keller & Bota
When Thomas Adès conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, a concert awaits where the large-scale visions of romanticism meet the glow of...
21 October100 - 420 krDiscover fin-de-siècle ballet
Through the turn of the century ballet music, a world of rhythms, colours and modernist imagination opens, as Anton Holmer makes his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Gregor Zubicky guides you through the music created for the iconic Swedish Ballet and Ballets Russes in Paris.
22 October100 - 420 krBallet at the turn-of-the-century
When the turn of the century dance scene underwent major changes, a new world of sounds, colours and rhythmic imagination opened. Under the direction of Anton Holmer, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra takes you through a time when ballet moved from playful folk to modernist elegance.
No tickets left24 October180 krHumlan Djojj on an adventure with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
When Humlan Djojj loses his way, he ends up in the middle of Berwaldhallen, surrounded by a live orchestra buzzing like a whole world of insects. Together with his friends and the musicians, Djojj sets off on a playful musical adventure. A warm and interactive concert experience for the whole family, where Djojj’s Grammy-nominated music meets the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Few seats remaining6–7 November170 - 560 krVerdi’s Requiem
One of the most magnificent and moving works in music history fills Berwaldhallen as Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
12–13 November130 - 475 krMusic from Vienna — with Harding & Piemontesi
Vienna's rich musical tradition takes center stage when Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program where the elegance...
18–19 November100 - 420 krElgar’s Enigma Variations
British conductor Adam Hickox makes his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Edward Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations, where both friendship and enigma are woven together into one of orchestra music’s most iconic works.
No tickets left26 – 28 November170 - 560 krBowie in Berlin
Conductor and arranger Hans Ek returns together with singers Magnus Carlson, Moto Boy and Jennie Abrahamsson to David Bowie’s iconic Berlin Trilogy. Drawing on the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger, they create a hauntingly evocative exploration of one of the most influential periods in pop history.
4–5 December130 - 475 krThe Fountains of Rome and Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony — Kavakos in Szymanowskis violin concerto
Kazuki Yamada conducts a concert where Rome's fountains sparkle and shimmer in Ottorino Respighi's masterful tone paintings, and Leonidas Kavakos brings new life to Karol Szymanowski's second Violin Concerto. Piotr Tchaikovsky's energetic third symphony
10–11 December130 - 475 krBruckner's fifth according to Stutzmann
One of the true colossuses of symphonic literature is given new life when Nathalie Stutzmann takes to the Berwaldhallen podium to lead the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra through Anton Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 5.