Concert with the RSPO Orchestra Academy

Since 2016, an orchestra academy has been affiliated with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year advanced academic programme for young musicians. The programme is run in collaboration with the Department of Music and Art at Linnaeus University in Växjö. Under the guidance of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s section leaders, the musicians receive individual coaching, chamber music training and orchestral experience.

They also showcase their talents through a series of public chamber music concerts – such as this one featuring this year’s academy musicians. Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet (1922) is a true cornerstone of the genre, while Jessie Montgomery’s rhythmically pulsing Strum for string quartet offers a contemporary take on Americana.

After the interval, it’s time for miniatures bursting with personality: we hear music from Svante Henryson’s Off Pist for clarinet and cello – virtuosic and imbued with improvisational freedom – alongside an early work by Britten for the unusual combination of oboe and string trio. The concert concludes with Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s First String Quartet – a powerful and colourful work in which folkloric energy meets modernist intensity.