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The Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra (Swedish : Stockholms ungdomssymfoniorkester) is a symphony orchestra based in Stockholm, Sweden, consisting of young musicians at a high school and college level. The orchestra was founded in 1978. It has toured many countries, including Egypt, China, Estonia, Hungary, and Portugal. [1]
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Christian Lindberg is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer,
Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he had been in his lifetime.
Hugo Emil Alfvén was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.
Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund was a Finnish conductor and violinist.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is a Welsh symphony orchestra and one of the BBC's five professional radio orchestras. The BBC NOW is the only professional symphony orchestra organisation in Wales, occupying a dual role as both a broadcasting orchestra and national orchestra. The BBC NOW has its administrative base in Cardiff, at the BBC Hoddinott Hall on the site of the Wales Millennium Centre, since January 2009.
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work. It holds an important place in the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos in history. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour.
Gustaf Allan Pettersson was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers. In his life's final decade, his symphonies developed an international following, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Of these, his best known work is Symphony No. 7. Pettersson's music also found success in the United States. The conductors Antal Doráti and Sergiu Comissiona premiered and recorded several of his symphonies. Pettersson's song cycle Barefoot Songs influenced a lot of his compositions.
Hilary Hahn is an American violinist. She has performed throughout the world both as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors and as a recitalist. She has also built a reputation as a champion of contemporary music. Several composers have written works for her, including concerti by Edgar Meyer and Jennifer Higdon, partitas by Antón García Abril, and a violin and piano sonata by Lera Auerbach.
Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer.
Myroslav Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including German, Welsh, English, and Eastern European artistic traditions.
Carl von Garaguly, also known as Carl Garaguly, was a Hungarian violinist and conductor who spent much of his working life in Scandinavia. He was born in Budapest, and worked many years in Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden, both as violinist and as a conductor.
Anders Erik Birger Eliasson was a Swedish composer.
Werner Wolf Glaser was a German-born Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic, and poet.
Adolf Wiklund was a Swedish composer and conductor. His father was an organist. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher, Wiklund was awarded scholarships to study piano in Sweden and then in Paris. His debut as a piano soloist came in 1902 playing his own Konsertstycke in C major, Op 1.
Elina Vähälä is a Finnish classical violinist.
Klas Torstensson is a Swedish-Dutch composer.
The Concerto Grosso No. 1 was the first of six concerti grossi by Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. It was written in 1976–1977 at the request of Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko who were also the violin soloists at its premiere on 21 March 1977 in Leningrad together with Yuri Smirnov on keyboard instruments and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra under Eri Klas. It is one of the best-known of Schnittke's polystylistic compositions and marked his break-through in the West.
Mats Rondin was a Swedish cellist and conductor.
Sara Katarina Trobäck Hesselink is a Swedish violinist. Since 2002, she has been first concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.