Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Biography
More than a hundred exceptional musicians make up the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, 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.
Daniel Harding's tenure as Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ended, after 18 brilliant seasons, in summer 2025. “It is increasingly rare for the relationship between a conductor and an orchestra not only to last for more than a decade, but to keep growing,” Harding has said about working with the orchestra.
In August 2026, during the Baltic Sea Festival, Andrés Orozco-Estrada will begin as new Music Director for the orchestra!
The first radio orchestra was founded in 1925, coinciding with Sweden’s first national radio broadcasts. Throughout the 20th century, chief conductors like Sergiu Celibidache and Herbert Blomstedt furthered the orchestra’s musical development and international renown. Two of the SRSO’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to make regular appearances with the orchestra.
Performances and Global Reach of the Swedish Radio Symphony 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 classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT, as well as globally through the European broadcast alliance EBU. During the pandemic, its much-appreciated on-demand streamed concerts on Berwaldhallen Play brought further worldwide attention to the orchestra.
Recent international performances and recordings of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The orchestra tours regularly, receiving invitations from all over Europe and the world. In March 2023, Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performed two programmes at the Musikverein in Vienna, with highlights including Robert Schumann’s Manfred performed with the Wiener Singverein and actor Cornelius Obonya, and Schumann’s Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff. In September 2023, Harding and the orchestra played an all-Sibelius programme at the Sibelius Festival in Lahti, Finland, featuring María Dueñas in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue. Recent releases include Jesper Nordin’s triptych Röster, works by Britten featuring Andrew Staples and the SRSO’s solo hornist Chris Parkes, and Eduard Tubin’s Double Bass Concerto with the SRSO’s solo bassist Rick Stotijn. Daniel Harding’s other noteworthy recordings with the SRSO include Schönberg’s Violin Concerto with Isabelle Faust, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem featuring Christiane Karg and Matthias Goerne, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
Andres Orozco-EstradaMusic Director 2026/20207With roots in Colombia, education in Vienna, and solid experience from some of the world's leading orchestras, Orozco-Estrada brings musical brilliance, warmth and a strong desire to open music to more people.
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About the Orchestra
One of Europe's foremost and most versatile orchestras.Known as the Radio Symphonics in everyday speech, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has left a major mark on the music world.
Collaboration with Kulturskolan
Kulturskolan and Berwaldhallen work together to create more opportunities for students in the orchestra school. Musicians from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Kulturskolan play together in rehearsals and concerts.
Work in Berwaldhallen
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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra members
Contact details for members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Upcoming Concerts
Few seats remainingVerdi’s Requiem
Runs: 6–7 NovemberTicket price: 170 - 560 krOne of the most magnificent and moving works in music history fills Berwaldhallen as Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
Few seats remainingAnniversary concert — Ten years of musical meetings between Orkesterskolan and Berwaldhallen
Runs: 8 NovemberTicket price: 150 krFor ten years, Orkesterskolan, part of Kulturskolan Stockholm, and Berwaldhallen have been creating musical encounters for children and young people. Here, young...
Music from Vienna — with Harding & Piemontesi
Runs: 12–13 NovemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krVienna's rich musical tradition takes center stage when Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program where the elegance...
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Runs: 18–19 NovemberTicket price: 100 - 420 krBritish 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 leftBowie in Berlin
Runs: 26 – 28 NovemberTicket price: 170 - 560 krConductor and arranger Hans Ek returns together with singers Magnus Carlson, Moto Boy and Jennie Abrahamson 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.
The Fountains of Rome and Tchaikovsky’s 'Polish' Symphony — Kavakos in Szymanowskis violin concerto
Runs: 4–5 DecemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krKazuki 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
Bruckner's fifth according to Stutzmann
Runs: 10–11 DecemberTicket price: 130 - 475 krOne 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.