A world-renowned orchestra

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has a long and eventful history – admired for its programming, recordings, and tours.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1902 and Konserthuset Stockholm has been its home since 1926. The orchestra gives around 100 concerts annually and participates in the festivities associated with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
Noted for its ambitious programming, composer festivals with contemporary music and pioneering work on a more gender balanced repertoire, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is very much present in today’s music life. It has made itself an international name through recordings and extensive touring. The German newspaper Die Welt once concluded that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic is “one of the world’s best orchestras”.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s renewal efforts also include an extensive children’s programme, which has been running since 1917.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor is the prize-winning American Ryan Bancroft, who began his tenure in 2023. Before him, Finnish Sakari Oramo was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2021, and American Alan Gilbert 2000–08.
Among guest conductors, we find at the core the orchestra’s Conductor Laureates Gilbert and Oramo along with Franz Welser-Möst – all three working with the orchestra on a regular basis. Welser-Möst holds the title of Eric Ericson Honorary Chair with the orchestra. Further guest conductors include notable names such as Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Simone Young and Gianandrea Noseda.
Konserthuset Play is the orchestra’s online platform, it offers a large selection of filmed performances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, available for free streaming anywhere in the world.
”The Konserthuset Play platform offers a digital showcase of the orchestra’s recent outings at home ... an invigorating reminder of what a truly world-class band this is ...” Flora Willson/The Guardian
Concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra in vibrant and brilliant music.
Wednesday 19 March 2025 18.00Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraTchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra in vibrant and brilliant music.
Wednesday 19 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-385 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprep.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/tchaikovskys-fifth-symphony/20250319-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Tchaikovsky composed his fifth symphony during a few summer months in 1888. He had complained of lacking inspiration in the spring: "Am I burned out? No ideas, no desire?" But the fifth became a vital, emotionally charged, and in many respects brilliant symphony. It premiered under the composer's direction at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in November of the same year.
The concert begins with Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's Liguria, music that takes us on a journey between five small fishing villages clinging to the cliffs along Italy's northwestern coast.
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The music
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Andrea Tarrodi Liguria10 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 550 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
Wednesday 19 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-385 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
A beloved violin concerto and a brilliant symphony – featuring soloist Maria Ioudenitch and Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00Maria Ioudenitch. Photo: Andrej Grilc
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSibelius and Tchaikovsky
A beloved violin concerto and a brilliant symphony – featuring soloist Maria Ioudenitch and Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprep.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/sibelius-and-tchaikovsky/20250320-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Sibelius's violin concerto is now the most performed of all violin concertos from the 20th century. Yet its musical language belongs to the late 19th century, and the music is warm and lyrical, dramatic and melancholic. Sibelius, himself a violinist, possibly wrote the concerto he himself would have wanted to play – albeit on a technical level far beyond his own. In this way, the violin concerto can be seen as a farewell to the youthful dreams of a career as a violin virtuoso. It is among the more challenging in the genre, as many violinists have attested.
Taking on the challenge is the young award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenitch. In 2021, she won first prize in the prestigious Ysaÿe International Music Competition and the same year also the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Maria Ioudenitch was born in Russia but moved to the USA with her family at the age of two.
Tchaikovsky composed his fifth symphony during a few summer months in 1888. He had complained about a lack of inspiration in the spring: "Am I burned out? No ideas, no desire?" But the fifth became a vital, emotionally charged, and in many respects brilliant symphony. It premiered under the composer's direction at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in November of the same year.
The concert opens with the Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodis's Liguria, music that takes us on a journey between five small fishing villages clinging to the cliffs along Italy's northwest coast.
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The music
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Andrea Tarrodi Liguria10 min
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Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 550 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Maria Ioudenitch violin
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Torleif Thedéen is the soloist in a new cello concerto, and Johannes Gustavsson conducts a Swedish masterpiece.
Thursday 10 April 2025 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset PlayTorleif Thedéen. Photo: Nikolaj Lund
Johannes Gustavsson. Photo: Anna Hult
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraStenhammar's second symphony
Torleif Thedéen is the soloist in a new cello concerto, and Johannes Gustavsson conducts a Swedish masterpiece.
Thursday 10 April 2025 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
● Livestream
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
The link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pprep.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/stenhammars-second-symphony/20250410-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Composer Mats Larsson Gothe has had significant success in recent years, including with the opera Löftet ("The Promise") at the Royal Swedish Opera. Already in 2016, he was the focus of Konserthuset’s Composer Weekend Festival. Here, we hear the world premiere of a new cello concerto, featuring internationally renowned Torleif Thedéen as the cello soloist. "The cello concerto for Torleif captures everything that a cello can convey: longing, dreams, pain, and melancholy – but also anger and resignation. I have used the full range of expression", Mats Larsson Gothe explains.
The cello concerto is preceded by music by Elfrida Andrée, a Swedish pioneer around the turn of the last century and the first female cathedral organist. She followed in the footsteps of her teacher Ludvig Norman but was also strongly influenced by composers like Beethoven. Additionally, she was a conductor and herself led at least one famous performance of this majestic Concert Overture in D major.
After hearing Sibelius' second symphony, Stenhammar experienced an artistic crisis. He withdrew his first symphony and sought new paths. In the second symphony, he allows the Nordic elements to take more prominence: in several places, Swedish folk music shines through. Stenhammar's ambition to write "sober and honest music without superficiality" had succeeded.
The orchestra is led by Johannes Gustavsson, who has conducted many of the country's foremost orchestras – the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra most recently in spring 2023. He is the Chief Conductor of the Jönköping Sinfonietta and has previously been the Chief Conductor of the Oulu Symphony Orchestra in Finland and at Wermland Opera.
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The music
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Elfrida Andrée Concert Overture in D major11 min
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Mats Larsson Gothe Cello Concerto (Commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – World Premiere)20 min
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Intermission25 min
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Wilhelm Stenhammar Symphony No. 245 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannes Gustavsson conductor
- Torleif Thedéen cello
Thursday 10 April 2025 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
● Livestream
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
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