The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is 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. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.

Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the 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 Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.

32 professional choristers make up the Swedish Radio Choir: a unique, dynamic instrument hailed by music-lovers and critics all over the world. The Swedish Radio Choir performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, as well as on tours all over the country and the world. Also, they are heard regularly by millions of listeners on Swedish Radio P2, Berwaldhallen Play and globally through the EBU.

The award-winning Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš was appointed Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir in 2020. Since January 2019, its choirmaster is French orchestral and choral conductor Marc Korovitch, with responsibility for the choir’s vocal development.

The Swedish Radio Choir was founded in 1925, the same year as Sweden’s inaugural radio broadcasts, and gave its first concert in May that year. Multiple acclaimed and award-winning albums can be found in the choir’s record catalogue. Late 2023 saw the release of Kaspars Putniņš first album with the choir: Robert Schumann’s Missa sacra, recorded with organist Johan Hammarström.

Rebecka Wallroth, born 1999 in Stockholm, is a lyric Mezzosoprano currently studying Bachelor at Unviersität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. In 2022, she took Second Prize in Wihelm Stenhammar International Music Competition and First Prize in Ferruccio Tagliavini Singing Competition, where she also got the Karl Böhm Prize for the best Mozart interpretation.

In September 2022, she was finalist in DEBUT international singing competition and in November, she won First Prize in the Hans Staud Musikpreis in Vienna. Next Autumn, Rebecka will join the international opera studio at Staatsopern unter den Linden, Berlin.

In the 2022/23 season, Rebecka sings Olga (Eugen Onegin) and Idamante (Idomeneo) in Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. This december, she will be soloist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras christmas concerts.

Last season Rebecka sang Unulfo (Rodelinda) and Agnes (Verkaufte Braut) in Schlossteather Schönbrunn, Vienna. During the summer, she participated in the Confidencen Opera and Music Festival Academy and did Lied concerts with nordic romances and songs.

Rebecka has participated in masterclasses with Katarina Karneus, Ann Hallenberg, Elin Rombo, Matti Hirvonen, Jeremy Carpenter etc. Before she started at MDW she studied with Anita Soldh at Musikkonservatoriet in Falun, Sweden. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music, including Opera, Lied and Oratorios.

This year 2022, she was selected the reciever of the Joel Berglund scholarship at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Rebecka has also received Scholarships from the Swedish Royal Academy of Music, Sandrews Foundation and Anny Felbermayer Fund. In 2018 she won Dalasolist and sang with Dalasinfoniettan under the direction of Cecilia Rydinger Ahlin.