The Baltic Sea Festival 2026
Baltic Sea Festival 2026
From 21–29 August, the Baltic Sea Festival filled Stockholm with music ranging from the intimate to the monumental. Across nine days, the festival presented a total of 13 concerts and performances.
Festival highlights
The festival opened with a fanfare by Anders Hillborg, followed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of newly appointed Chief Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, joined by the season’s Artist in Residence Malin Byström.
The festival featured two concerts with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, chamber music, family performances featuring Alfons Åberg, cinematic jazz at Fasching, live podcasts and talks, as well as music that has been performed for 400 years and music heard for the very first time.
Other artists and ensembles appearing at the festival included Yunchan Lim, Asya Fateyeva, Jakub Józef Orliński, Daniel Lozakovich, Peter Mattei, Opus13, Jacob Mühlrad, Molly Kien and festival co-founder Esa-Pekka Salonen.
A heartfelt thank you to all the artists, participants, partners and audience members who helped make this year’s festival possible.
Want to experience or revisit the concerts? Listen in Sveriges Radio P2 and on Berwaldhallen Play.
PartnersCollaborators & Supporters2026 is the Baltic Sea Fest's 24th year as a platform for exciting meetings, exploratory conversations and creativity – it would not be possible without fantastic partners and supporters who believe in the power of music to unite.
Festival Programme 2026
friday 21 August
Rythm and ritual
saturday 22 Augusti
Family day and open house
Back to Bach with Lozakovich
sunday 23 August
Schweitzer, Lyssarides & Co
tuesday August 25
Passion and protest
wednesday 26 August
Dreams of freedom
thursday 27 August
Berwald’s septet and Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings
Beyond baroque
friday 28 August
Beethoven's DNA
Late Night Concert with the Swedish Radio Choir
saturday 29 August
ARTS LAB at the Finnish Institute
Opus13 & Monbijou Quartet
Fate & guilt
Press
Karl Thorson, press and PR Berwaldhallen
Telephone: +46 70 431 18 93
Email: karl.thorson@sverigesradio.seThe Baltic Sea Festival press releases and press photos of concerts during the festival are available in the Berwaldhallen press room.
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