RUSSIAN MASTERS: TCHAIKOVSKY & USTVOLSKAYA
Russian metropolis St Petersburg is the starting point for this concert. Piotr Tchaikovsky’s magnificent fifth symphony, originally performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1888, meets Galina Ustvolskaya’s Suite for Orchestra from 1959. Born in St Petersburg, Ustvolskaya was the only female student in Dmitri Shostakovich’s composition class in what was then Leningrad. A musical journey in the footsteps of Russian masters, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Anja Bihlmaier.
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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.
Anja Bihlmaier har varit chefsdirigent för Residentie Orkest sedan augusti 2021 och utsågs till huvudgästdirigent för BBC Philharmonic i september 2024.
Under säsongen 2024/2025 dirigerar Bihlmaier Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie, WDR Cologne, Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Bergen Philharmonic, Göteborgs symfoniker, Seattle och Toronto symphony orchestra, Spanish National och Orquesta da Galicia. Hon kommer även att återvända till National Symphony i Dublin för att framföra Mahlers symfoni nr 9 och tar Residentie Orkest till Bonn för starten av ett treårigt residens på Beethovenfest. I juni 2025 kommer hon även att dirigera Bernard Foccroulles Cassandra på Staatsoper Berlin.
Efter sin BBC Proms-debut 2023 återvände hon 2024 tillsammans med BBC Philharmonic men också med Glyndebournes produktion av Carmen efter att ha gjort framträdanden på festivalen under hela augusti. Under säsongen 2023/2024 har Bihlmaier debuterat med London Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, HR Sinfonie Orchester, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Sydney och Melbournes symphony orchestra och vid Salzburg Mozartwoche.
Bihlmaier har en bred repertoar som inkluderar musik från Haydn, Mahler, Strauss, B.A. Zimmermann till Sibelius, Bartók, Dvořák, Sjostakovitj, Debussy, Britten, Galina Ustvolskaya och Unsuk Chin.
Efter att ha studerat vid Freiburg Hochschule für Musik med Scott Sandmeier, belönades Bihlmaier med ett stipendium för studier vid Salzburg Mozarteum och fortsatte att studera med Dennis Russell Davies och Jorge Rotter. Hon antogs därför till Deutsche Dirigentenforum och fick där ett stipendium från Brahmsgesellschaft Baden-Baden.
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.
Approximate concert lenght: Ca 1 h
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