Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

The Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( Swedish Kungliga Filharmoniska Orkestern i Stockholm ) is a Stockholm -based symphony orchestra. Since 1926, the main concert venue of the orchestra has been the Stockholm Concert Hall .

It was founded in 1902 as an orchestra of the Stockholm Concert Society, and since 1914 has gained a stable status thanks to state municipal funding. In 1937, the orchestra became the main orchestra of the Swedish Radio , since 1957 - the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, since 1992 - the modern name. Over the years, the orchestra was led by well-known conductors (including foreigners) - Tour Aulin, Fritz Bush, Antal Dorati, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vaclav Talich, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. Since 2008, the main conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic is Finn Sakari Oramo.

The orchestra performed the premieres of many orchestral works by Swedish and foreign composers, among them the Third Symphony by F. Berwald (1905), The Steps by S. A. Gubaidulina (3rd ed., 1993), the First (1904), and the Fourth (1930 ) and the Fifth (1934) symphonies of W. Peterson-Berger , “Cinq reflets de l'Amour de loin” by C. Saariaho (2002), overture of “First-Pieces” by S. D. Sandstrom (1994), Seventh Symphony of J. Sibelius (1924).

Among the well-known performances of the orchestra are the Stockholm International Festival of Composers and the Composers Week, annually dedicated to the work of one respectively foreign or Swedish contemporary composer, musical accompaniment of the Nobel Prizes and the Polar Music Prize .