The Swedish Chamber Orchestra O¨rebro, based in the city of O¨rebro, is
Scandinavia’s only fulltime chamber orchestra. The O¨rebro Concert Hall, situated
on the Black River in the historic centre of O¨rebro, is the orchestra’s home.
From this base it gives some 100 performances a year divided between subscription
concerts and tours - national and international. Thomas Dausgaard is the
Principal Conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra since 1997.
The Swedish
Chamber Orchestras rapid development, attracting attention from leading international
conductors and soloists, has come as the result of intensive recording (Naxos,
Simax, BIS and Hyperion) and increasingly touring. Most ambitious is the
work in progress recording the complete Beethoven orchestral works and piano
concerti with Boris Berezovsky, soloist and Thomas Dausgaard, conductor.
5 CD’s, on the Simax label, have so far been released to international critical
acclaim.
“…there’s abundant life, quick-witted musical intelligence, inwardly
charged expression, scintillating precision, humour and a sense of awe…”
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE February 2001
“Nur so! Dem Schwedischen Kammerorchester
gelinkt es gleichsam die Quadratur des Kreises” Fono Forum July 2002
In 1996
the Swedish Chamber Orchestra toured Europe with Barbara Hendricks and the
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, in 1997 Spain and Norway, in 1998 Germany, Norway
and the USA, in 2001 Germany and in 2003 two more German tours including
the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. 2004 marks the orchestras debut at the London
Proms and the New York “Mostly Mozart” festival.
Together with the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra a composer-in-residency for a Swedish (Karin Rehnqvist)
and a British (Sally Beamish) composer was established for the period 1998-2004.
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