The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.

Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.

Säsongen 2023/24 är Christian Reifs första som ny chefsdirigent för Gävle Symfoniorkester. Den unge dirigenten har redan gjort sig känd för innovativt sammansatta konsertprogram och en kombination av naturlig musikalitet och teknisk precision. Under sin första säsong som chefsdirigent kommer Reif leda Gävle Symfoniorkester i sju konserter, däribland säsongsöppningen och en Sverigeturné i mars 2024.

Sedan 2022 har Reif varit konstnärlig ledare för Lakes Area Music Festival i Minnesota i USA, en månadslång sommarfestival med fokus på att beställa ny musik och att erbjuda gratiskonserter med allt från opera och symfonier till kammarmusik.

Bland andra höjdpunkter i säsongen 2023/24 kan nämnas framträdanden med symfoniorkestrarna i Cincinnati, St. Louis, Seattle och Milwaukee, Philharmonia-orkestern i London och Brnos Filharmoniska Orkester. Dessutom väntar gästspel vid festivalerna i Interlochen och Grand Teton i USA. Reif kommer att leda framföranden av sitt eget arrangemang av John Adams operaoratorium El Niño med Cincinnatis Symfoniorkester och på USA-turné med The American Modern Opera Company.

Christian Reif är lika hemma i Europa som i Nordamerika och har gästat en rad olika framstående amerikanska och europeiska orkestrar. Mellan 2016–2019 var han residensdirigent vid San Franciscos Symfoniorkester och chefsdirigent för San Franciscos Ungdomssymfoniorkester. Han har studerat dirigering vid Mozarteum i Salzburg och vid Juilliard School i New York City.

Julia Kretz-Larsson is the assistant first concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2015. She is also a member of the chamber music ensemble Spectrum Concerts Berlin who, in addition to having their own concert series at the Berlin Phiharmonic, has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She is a former member of both the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

She is also an active chamber musician, having performed with Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Cecilia Zilliacus, Torleif Thedéen and others, and played at internationally renowned festivals in Salzburg, Utrecht and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the Schubertiade in Voralberg and Vinterfest in Mora, Sweden. She has recorded chamber works for labels such as BIS, dB and Harmonia Mundi, and the 2018 album Amanda Maier vol. 3 was awarded a Swedish Grammy Award. As a member of the Julius Stern Piano Trio, she has won prizes at international competitions in Florence, Berlin and Trieste.

Julia Kretz-Larsson teacher violin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She is a Berlin native, has studied under Professor Marianne Boettcher, under Professor Thomas Brandis at the Berlin University of the Arts, and in Prague for Josef Suk.