The Swedish Radio Choir is a professional choir. It is part of

Sveriges Radio Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is d ...

, the public radio broadcasting company of Sweden. The choir consists of 32 singers and their chorus master Marc Korovitch. Peter Dijkstra is the choir's most recent chief conductor. He left the position after eleven years, in 2018. Since 1979 the Swedish Radio Choir has been based at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall,

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, in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

. In 2010 the Swedish Radio Choir was included in ''

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'' magazine's special feature article where an international jury was asked to name the world's leading choirs.World's leading choirs
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Conductors

* 1925 - 1952 Axel Nylander and Einar Ralf * 1952 - 1982

Eric Ericson Eric Gustaf Ericson (26 October 1918 – 16 February 2013) was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. Life and career He graduated from the Royal College of Music (''Kungl. Musikhögskolan'') in Stockholm in 1943 and w ...

* 1982 - 1985 Anders Öhrwall * 1986 - 1994 Gustaf Sjökvist * 1995 - 2001

Tõnu Kaljuste Tõnu Kaljuste (born August 28, 1953) is an Estonian conductor. Born in Tallinn, Kaljuste is the son of Heino Kaljuste (1925–1989), an Estonian choral conductor, and Lia Kaljuste, a radio journalist. Tõnu sang in his father's choirs as a chil ...

* 2002 - 2005 Stefan Parkman * 2007 - 2018

Peter Dijkstra Peter Dijkstra (born 11 June 1978) is a Dutch conductor, especially of choirs and vocal ensembles. Born in Roden, Drenthe, Dijkstra sang in his youth in Jongenskoor Roder, a boys' choir, which his father, Bouwe Dijkstra, founded in 1985. He sang t ...

* since 2018 Marc Korovitch, chorus master

References

External links

Official website
(in Swedish) {{Authority control Swedish choirs National choirs Radio and television performing groups Musical groups established in 1925 1925 establishments in Sweden