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After a couple of intense days in London the ladies of Sofia Vokalensemble are at home again. The performance on Thursday at Royal Festival Hall was gripping, emotional and got standing ovations. This is from theartsdesk.com “The Symphony of Psalms, which ended the Philharmonia’s Stravinsky series last night, is an indelible masterpiece, silencing the tired but persistent accusation that Stravinsky’s music is…
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Ladies of Sofia Vokalensemble to London
This summer the sopranos and altos performed Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms together with the Orphei Drängar and ladies of Gustaf Sjökvists Kammarkör during the renowned opera festival in Aix-en-Provence, France. This week we get to meet and work with director Peter Sellars, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and his Philarmonia Orchestra again. On September 29th we’ll be on stage in London at…
New term and open rehearsal August 24th!
Yesterday we in Sofia Vokalensemble had our first rehearsal after the summer break and we have an exciting autumn in front of us. In October we’ll be singing music by Pärt and Mäntyjärvi and in December we’ll perform Händel’s Messiah with orchestra and soloists. In September the tenors and basses will be going on their own tour to the Baltics…
Tenors and basses are going on tour in Baltics
Sofia Vokalensemble men group on a first ever tour for the first ever visit to Baltics. For our first visit to Baltics we prepared the program with rich display of of male choral music pieces that are highly popular in Sweden as well as some of the best music for male choirs by foreign composers. The program ranges from romantic,…
Sofia Vokalensemble meets Peter Sellars
Last summer we received a very exciting invitation – to go and take part of Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In July the women of Sofia Vokalensemble will be performing Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms together with Orphei Drängar and sopranos and altos from Gustaf Sjökvists kammarkör. A truly fantastic project! Today we had a full day rehearsal with renowned opera stage director and Polar Music Prize laureate…
First performance on Saturday
The spring semester has started and we have this year’s first performance already on Saturday. On January 30th the Stockholm bishopric celebrates Jubilate or church music festival and we have the honor performing Sven-David Sandström’s Te Deum together with organist Mattias Wager. The concert is at Oscar’s church in Stockholm at 15:00. Welcome! Free entrance!
Exciting fall ahead of us
The semester has started and in October we have two big projects ahead of us. On October 11th at 19:00 we hold a concert at Sofia church and later the same evening the finals of the choir competition Let the Peoples Sing will take place. At 20:40 we sing our live performance at the church and it’ll also be broadcast…
What a tour in Provence!
In the end of July we traveled to Provence, France to participate in the choir festival “Festival des Choeurs Lauréats”. We held five concerts in the region and got the chance to see many things, from the beautiful village Lamastre in the mountains to the old town of Avignon. We really enjoyed the tour and appriciated the warm French audience.…
Bach’s Mass in B-minor
What an evening we had on March 8th! We were happy that so many wanted to share the experience of Bach’s Mass in B-minor with us. We want to thank the soloists, Lisa Carlioth, Tove Nilsson, Conny Thimander and John Erik Eleby and the baroque orchestra Tre Kronor for a great cooperation. Thank you, we had so much fun! We…
New video: Dona Nobis Pacem from J.S Bach’s Mass in B-minor
Listen to “Dona Nobis Pacem”, which concludes the Mass in B-minor, when we performed it two years ago.