Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester & Per Hammarström
Biography Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester & Per Hammarström
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1936, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra has over the years en- joyed important partnerships with principal conductors including Sergiu Celibidache, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Today it ranks among the world’s great orchestras, and is under the leadership of Daniel Harding, its current music director, earning accolades as one of the most interesting and versatile ensembles of its kind. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra frequently tours worldwide, receiving invitations from major international festivals and concert halls. At home in Stockholm’s Berwald Hall, it is furthermore the resident ensemble and artistic backbone of the annual Baltic Sea Festival. Through innovative collaborations with leading conductors, soloists and composers, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra embodies the role of a symphony orchestra for the twenty-first century. As well as making its mark with established repertoire, the orchestra is committed to playing and recording contemporary music and regularly commissions works by Swedish and international composers.
Per Hammarström
received his training as a conductor at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where his teachers included Jorma Panula and Paul Mägi. He gave his diploma concert with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and since then has conducted most of the Swedish orchestras, including the Gävle, Norrköping and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestras, the NorrlandsOpera Symphony Orchestra in Umeå, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae and the Jönköping Sinfonietta. He is a prizewinner in Svenska dirigentpriset, a Swedish competition for conductors. In 2009 he was appointed assistant conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducting the orchestra in concert as well as on radio and television recordings. Per Hammarström also trained as a violinist at Edsberg Manor in Stockholm and the Royal College of Music in London, joining the first violins of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1997. The present recording is his first disc as a conductor.
