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.

Finsk-ukrainska dirigenten Dalia Stasevska är chefsdirigent för Sinfonia Lahti, konstnärlig ledare för International Sibelius Festival och förste gästdirigent för BBC Symphony Orchestra. Stasevska studerade violin och komposition vid Tampere Conservatoire och därefter även viola och dirigering vid Sibelius-Akademien under Jorma Panula och Leif Segerstam.

Under säsongen 2023/24 har Stasevska bland anant gästat The Cleveland Orchestra, DR Symfoniorkestret, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, Sydney Symphony Orchestra och West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Under samma säsong gjorde hon även debut på Glyndebourne Opera Festival med Peter Halls legendariska uppsättning av Brittens A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Stasevska har tidigare dirigerat den kombinerade uppsättningen av Poulencs La Voix Humaine och Weills Songs med Karita Mattila på Finska Nationaloperan- och baletten samt Sebastian Fagerlunds Höstsonaten på Östersjöfestivalen 2018 med Anne Sofie von Otter.

Tillsammans med BBC Symphony Orchestra har Stasevska under våren 2024 haft ett så kallat ”total immersion”-projekt med fokus på den amerikanska kompositören Missy Mazzolis musik. Dessutom släppte hon sitt första soloalbum Dalias Mixtape tillsammans med samma orkester.

2020 tilldelades Dalia Stasevska Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award och åren därpå fick hon även Alfred Kordelin Prize och BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year award. I oktober 2021 skänkte den ukrainske presidenten Volodymyr Zelenskyj, Stasevska Furstinnan Olgas orden av tredje klassen för hennes insatser för internationellt samarbete, stärkandet av Ukrainas internationella anseende och spridandet av dess historia och kulturarv. Sedan februari 2024 har Stasevska samlat in donationer för att köpa förnödenheter till krigsfronten och ibland även levererat dem själv.

Swedish soprano Johanna Wallroth was thrust into the limelight when she took First Prize at the prestigious Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in 2019.

Initially training as a dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, Wallroth subsequently focused her principal study on voice and went on to graduate from Vienna’s Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (MDW).  In 2013, Johanna Wallroth made her operatic debut as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro under Arnold Östman at Ulriksdal Palace Theatre, Stockholm. Efter that she has regularly appeared on stages in Sweden and worldwide, for example as Despina in Cosi fan tutte at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn Wien and as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Moscow’s Gnesin Academy. In the 19/20 season, Johanna made her role debut as Zerlin  in Don Giovanni to great acclaim in a live-streamed semi-staged performance with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Music Director, Daniel Harding.

Already with an enviable experience on the concert platform, Johanna Wallroth has for example performed with Sakari Oramo at Helsinki Music Centre in Mahler, Symphony No 4 and Mozart, Requiem with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Barbara Hannigan. She was soloist on tour to Antwerp, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Köln, Hamburg and Luxembourg with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Orchestra in Mahler, Symphony No 4.

The 2022/23 season opens with a debut at Sweden’s historic Drottningholm Festival as Leocasta in Vivaldi’s Il Giustino with the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra under George Petrou, and sees her first appearance at Opernhaus Zürich in a ballet production choreographed by Christian Spück based on the Madrigals of Monteverdi and conducted by Christoph Koncz.

Named as Classical Artist in Residence for the 2022/23 season by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johanna Wallroth joins the orchestra for several concerts across the season including Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder with Daniel Harding, Mozart arias with Martin Fröst and Schubert Mass in E-flat with Andràs Schiff.