Marc Korovitch to be Associated Choral Director and Vocal Advisor for the Swedish Radio Choir

Marc Korovitch takes on an expanded role as Associated Choral Director and Vocal Advisor for the Swedish Radio Choir. Marc has been associated with the Swedish Radio Choir since 2018 and is regularly engaged by leading choirs and orchestras in Europe and internationally. His new role as Associated Choral Director and Vocal Advisor means a deepened responsibility for the artistic and vocal development of the Swedish Radio Choir.

“Marc’s musical and vocal expertise has become increasingly important to the choir as a whole. He has the ability to bring out the very best in the singers and help them sing as expressively as they can. With his warmth and great musical competence, we look forward to continuing this development together,” says Helene Stureborg, Head of Artistic Planning for the Swedish Radio Choir.

What a joy to extend my duties alongside Radiokören! Eight years already and more to come ! Our relationship has become incredibly special to me, founded on mutual trust, respect, and understanding, both on a human and a musical level. The choir is a living organism composed of each and everyone of the singers. Taking care of them and of the « sound journey » is overwhelming. Let’s go for more beauty, precision and emotions. The choir is unique, and the goal is precisely to strengthen that uniqueness! “, says Marc Korovitch

Marc Korovitch studied at the Sorbonne, the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. Among his mentors were Denis Rouger, Celso Antunes, Michael Gläser, Dominique Rouits, and Colin Metters.

He is regularly invited by various choirs, including ACCENTUS, accentus, the Radio France Choir, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Croatian Radio Choir, the NDR chor, the WDR Chor, the English Voices, the Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Serbian Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and soon the Polish Radio Choir, the Danish Radio Vocalensemble and Concert Choir, and the Rundfunkchor Berlin.

Korovitch is the youngest conductor to have conducted the Concerto Köln in Germany and on tour in Italy and Poland. He frequently conducts the Hague Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Baroque Orchestra, the Berliner Sinfonietta, the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra, the Montpellier National Orchestra, and the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra RTVE.

He collaborates with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Herbert Blomstedt, Klaus Mäkelä, Daniel Harding, Lahav Shani, Gustavo Dudamel, Alan Gilbert, Philippe Jordan, Louis Langrée, Leonardo García Alarcón, Laurence Equilbey, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jaap van Zweden in halls such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Theater an der Wien, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Lincoln Center in New York, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm, the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Tokyo Opera City, and during major festivals such as the Radio-France festival in Montpellier, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, and the Mostly Mozart festival in New York.

He was conductor of the Jeune Chœur de Paris from 2017 to 2024 and principal conductor of the Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris between 2022 and 2023. In 2019, he was appointed choir master of the Swedish Radio Choir, chief conductor of the Orchestre Colonne in september 2022, of the Montenegro Symphony Orchestra in 2023, and of the Spanish Radio and Television Choir RTVE in 2024. From 2026, Korovitch is the Principal Guest conductor of the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra and from 2027, Principal Guest of the Netherlands Radio Choir.

assionate about teaching, he was a conducting professor in Paris and is involded in different masterclasses programs with the ACVA in The Hague, the Dirigentforum, Talent Norge or Lisbon Choral Conducting and competitions such as the Eric Ericson Award.

The Swedish Radio Choir announced the extension of the collaboration with choirmaster Marc Korovitch, for another three years, in August 2024.

“Marc Korovitch has become a highly trusted choir master of the Swedish Radio Choir, with great musical sensibility and a warm human touch. These are both so important ingredients for music making. We are happy that Marc Korovitch will also emerge from behind the scenes to conduct the choir in concert during the coming seasons.” says Helene Stureborg, Head of Artistic Planning for the Swedish Radio Choir.

”I am humbled by the incredible honor, to start a third mandate as choir master of the Swedish Radio Choir. Being in charge of the sound of the ensemble, celebrating their 100 anniversay next year is a musical and human experience of a life time. Let’s continue nurturing the Swedish miracle that the unique Radiokören represents !” says Marc Korovitch.