The Royal College of Music, Stockholm () is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music
The Royal Swedish Academy of Music (), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in ...
. The institution was made independent of the Academy in 1971, and is now a public authority directly under the Ministry of Education and Research. Vice-chancellor from June 2019 is Helena Wessman, former general manager of
Berwaldhallen.
Notable alumni
Composers
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Hugo Alfvén
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Anton Jörgen Andersen
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Bror Beckman
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Natanael Berg
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Viking Dahl (also a notable painter and author)
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Hans Eklund
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Gunnar de Frumerie (also a notable pianist)
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Harald Fryklöf
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Ludwig Göransson
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Anders Hillborg
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Jacob Adolf Hägg
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Hannah Holgersson
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Lars-Erik Larsson
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Ruben Liljefors (also a notable conductor)
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Nils Lindberg (also a notable pianist)
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Pär Lindgren
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Edward McGuire (studied with composer Ingvar Lidholm 1971)
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Erland von Koch
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Otto Olsson
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Karin Rehnqvist
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Amanda Röntgen-Maier
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Ákos Rózmann
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Jan Sandström
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Sven-David Sandström
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Carl Unander-Scharin
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Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom
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Tore Uppström (also a notable pianist and author)
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Adolf Wiklund (also a notable conductor)
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Ivar Widner
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Dag Wirén
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Đuro Živković
Đuro Živković, also rendered as Djuro Zivkovic ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Живковић; born 1975), is a Serbian-Swedish composer and violinist. He has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2000.
Biography
Živković was born in Belgrade, ...
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Swani Zubayeer
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Kali Malone
Conductors
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Herbert Blomstedt
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Ragnar Bohlin
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Sixten Ehrling
Evert Sixten Ehrling (3 April 1918 – 13 February 2005) was a Swedish conductor and pianist who, during a long career, served as the music director of the Royal Swedish Opera and the principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, am ...
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Eric Ericson
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Nils Grevillius
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Veronika Portsmuth
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Patrik Ringborg
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Erik Westberg
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Niklas Willén
Niklas Willén (born 30 March 1961) is a Swedish Conducting, conductor. He was born in Stockholm and studied conducting and composition there at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Royal College of Music. His conducting teachers were Professo ...
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Adolf Wiklund (also a composer)
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Ariel Zuckermann
Ariel Zuckermann (; born in 1973 in Tel Aviv) is an Israelis, Israeli conductor, since 2015 director and conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
Career
Ariel Zuckermann began his musical career as flautist. A student of Paul Meisen and A ...
(also a flutist)
Instrumentalists
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Tor Aulin
Tor Aulin (10 September 1866 – 1 March 1914) was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer.
Biography
Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) under and then in the Conservatory of Berlin
Berlin ...
, violinist
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Carolina Eyck
Carolina Eyck (born 26 December 1987) is a German-Sorbs, Sorb musician and composer who specialises in playing the theremin.
Biography
Eyck was born in 1987, near Berlin, Germany. She is a member of the Sorbs, Sorbian community of East German ...
,
theremin
The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...
player
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Fredrik Fors, clarinetist
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Martin Fröst, clarinetist
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Gustaf Hägg, organist and composer
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David Hughes, bass player
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Anna Lang, harpist
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Ingrid Lang-Fagerström, harpist
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Christian Lindberg, trombone soloist
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Alf Linder, organist
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Henrik Linder, bass player
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Anders Lundegård, saxophonist
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Ellen Nisbeth, violist
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Natalya Pasichnyk, pianist
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Mika Pohjola, jazz pianist and composer
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Monica Ramos, harpist
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Markus Sandlund, cellist
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Staffan Scheja, pianist
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Esbjörn Svensson
Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson (16 April 1964 – 14 June 2008) was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.
Svensson became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the tu ...
, jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
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Andreas Öberg, jazz guitarist
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Andreas Johansson, drummer in
Narnia and
Royal Hunt
Vocalists
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Pernilla Andersson, singer and songwriter
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Margareta Bengtson, soprano and founding member of
The Real Group
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Jussi Björling, tenor
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Anders Edenroth, tenor and founding member of
The Real Group
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Selma Ek, soprano
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Malena Ernman
Sara Magdalena Ernman (born 4 November 1970), professionally known as Malena Ernman, is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member ...
, soprano
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John Forsell, baritone
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Ellen Gulbranson, soprano
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, baritone
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Anders Jalkéus, bass and founding member of
The Real Group
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Peter Jöback
Peter Arne Jöback (born 4 June 1971) is a Swedish singer, actor and musical artist.
Jöback has acted in musical theatre, with lead roles in West End productions of ''Miss Saigon'' and ''The Witches of Eastwick''. He is also known for his port ...
, singer and musical artist
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Sofia Karlsson, folk singer
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Leonard Labatt, tenor
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Peter Mattei, baryton
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Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano
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Birgit Nilsson, soprano
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Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
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Susanne Rydén, soprano
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Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
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Kerstin Thorborg, mezzo-soprano
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Lena Willemark, folk singer
Others
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Rasmus Fleischer, Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater
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Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom, author and music critic
External links
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Official webpage
Music schools in Sweden
1771 in Sweden
Higher education in Stockholm
University colleges in Sweden
1771 establishments in Sweden
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