Part three of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, where the honorary conductor leads the the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and soloists Malena Ernman and Jennifer France in György Ligeti's Requiem, written for the choir in 1965 and used by Stanley Kubrick in his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Additionally, Janine Jansen joins the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sergei Prokofiev's lyrical and virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major. The concert begins with the Swedish premiere of Salonen's Tiu  (Finnish for a dozen), which was written for the 20th anniversary of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Salonen himself describes the work as 'palindromes, fanfares, and clouds for orchestra.’

Salonen, Jansen & Ligeti's Requiem

SR Berwaldhallen

What happens when one of the most visionary conductors and composers of our time is given free rein to create his own concert? In Retrospective: Salonen, you are invited to an evening where boundaries are blurred, both between then and now and between genres. With innovative works by Salonen himself and Jesper Nordin, electronic landscapes, and Rebecka Törnqvist's personal interpretations of Eva Dahlgren's and Anders Hillborg's music, it becomes an exclusive musical reflection of a unique artistry, and a jewel in Salonen's string of concerts during the season as Artist in Residence!

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Retrospective: Salonen

Berwaldhallen

Ring out the old and sing in the new with the Berwaldhallen’s festive Epiphany concert! In this year’s concert, comedian Jonatan Unge is your host, and the Norwegian conductor Cathrine Winnes leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir, along with sopranos Julia Sporsén and Mari Eriksmoen, as well as this year’s Classical Artist in P2, trumpeter Ellinor Bengtson.

Epiphany Concert 2026

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Konserthuset Stockholm invites you to an open house! Philharmonic Day is a cherished tradition now celebrating its 40th anniversary! Welcome to a day filled with wonderful concerts, fun activities for children, and exciting encounters with musicians. Try out instruments in collaboration with Kulturskolan Stockholm.

Philharmonic Day

Stockholm City Hall

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Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 from 1911 is a work of deep emotion and great personal significance. Unlike the heroic tone of his First Symphony, this second symphony is more introspective and tinged with melancholy.

​​Elgar’s Second Symphony

Few works are as closely associated with Christmas and Epiphany as Pyotr Tchaikovsky's music for the ballet The Nutcracker. In this concert, conductor Christoph Koncz returns to Berwaldhallen to perform a suite based on Tchaikovsky's beloved music together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra. But first, Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, nicknamed Classical, the contemporary composer Hannah Kendall's work The Spark Catchers, based on a poem about women who worked in a match factory in the 1880s.

Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker  

Soprano Christina Nilsson is a familiar guest at Konserthuset Stockholm. Most recently, she appeared in February 2025 as soloist with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. She also made a highly acclaimed debut in the title role of Verdi’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. On this occasion, we hear her in a selection of songs by Richard Strauss.

Strauss and Elgar

World-renowned violinist Janine Jansen will make several guest appearances this season at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen. Together with the legendary conductor Antonio Pappano and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, she will perform Johannes Brahms' technically challenging and musically virtuosic Violin Concerto in D major, written for the legendary violinist Joseph Joachim. After the intermission, Pappano will lead the orchestra in Richard Strauss' early symphonic poem Aus Italien , which depicts Italy's landscapes, history, and folk life in four movements.

Janine Jansen in Brahms’ violin concerto

With its powerful opening, captivating melodies and explosive virtuosity, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto has become one of the most iconic works in classical music. The soloist is Japanese pianist Mao Fujita, making his debut at Konserthuset Stockholm together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

Pettersson and Tchaikovsky

Let yourself be embraced by light and confidence as Brahms’ beautiful Ein Deutsches Requiem resonates under the vast arches of Högalid Church in the composer’s own version for two pianos. The warm sound of the Swedish Radio Choir meets in intimate interplay with soloists and pianists in this work of eternal beauty under the direction of music director Kaspars Putninš.

Brahms' A German Requiem

Högalid Church

Frank Peter Zimmermann is one of the great violinists of our time, renowned for his beautiful tone and dazzling virtuosity. He has graced the stage at Konserthuset Stockholm many times before, and is always a warmly welcomed guest. On this occasion, he performs the stunning Violin Concerto by Swiss composer Frank Martin – a work brimming with lyrical beauty, vivid orchestral colours and rhythmic vitality.

Martin and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

For the first time since 2013, Petter Alexis Askegren 'Petter' finally takes the stage at Berwaldhallen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Ek to perform symphonic interpretations of music from the iconic rapper's nearly 30-year long career.

Petter meets the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra's own Malin Broman and Rick Stotijn premiere Sally Beamish's Double Concerto for Violia and Double Bass together with world renowned conductor Pierre Bleuse. The concert begins with Maurice Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin , with nods to Baroque composer Francoise Couperin's music, while each movement is a tribute to Ravel's two brothers and several friends who died during the First World War.

Ravel, Debussy & Beamish

A mass for the living, not for the dead. Johannes Brahms’ powerful and profoundly beautiful Ein deutsches Requiem – A German Requiem – for orchestra, choir and soloists is a work of deep humanity and hope. This concert also marks the debut of highly acclaimed Swedish conductor Sofi Jeannin with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

A German Requiem

At this concert, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s own Jakob Nilsson steps into the spotlight as soloist in the Trombone Concerto by Danish composer Launy Grøndahl. “It’s a standard work that every trombonist knows. It’s lyrical and powerful – comparable to Elgar’s Cello Concerto or Grieg’s Piano Concerto. It showcases the instrument’s full range,” says Jakob Nilsson.

Allan Pettersson’s Eighth

The South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim makes her debut at Berwaldhallen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, alongside the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, one of only two piano concertos he wrote in a minor key. The concert begins with the overture to Austrian composer Maria Theresia von Paradis' comic opera Der Schulkandidat (The School Candidate).

Mozart, Korngold & von Paradis

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, the only one he composed for the instrument and a significant cornerstone of the repertoire, together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the Italian conductor Robin Ticciati. After the intermission, Antonín Dvořák's optimistic and joyful Symphony No. 8, written during a stay at Dvořák's summer residence in Bohemia in 1889, awaits

Lisa Batiashvili in Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto 

In his First Symphony, Gustav Mahler takes the listener both out into the natural world and deep into the painful recesses of the human experience. With remarkable brilliance, he portrays human complexity and restlessness.

Mahler’s First Symphony

In the fourth part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, the conductor and composer is joined by the world-renowned pianist Yuja Wang to perform not one, but two concertos: Einojuhani Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Before that, Jean Sibelius' groundbreaking one-movement Symphony No. 7 in C major. The concert concludes with Claude Debussy's beloved symphonic sketch La Mer (The Sea).

Salonen & Wang x 2

Violinist Clara-Jumi Kang is Konserthuset’s Artist-in-Residence this season and returns to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra several times. This is her third production with the orchestra, each time under the baton of Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft, with whom she has frequently collaborated in recent years.

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