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Friday, May 21, 2021
Janine Jansen and Martin Fröst join the Swedish RSO for Distans, a new double concerto written during the pandemic
Sally Beamish (Photo: Ashley Coombes)
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra will give the world premiere of a brand-new work,
Distans, by the composer Sally Beamish today (Friday, May 21) at 6pm BST (19.00 CET). The concert comes live from Stockholm’s Berwaldhallen, Swedish Radio s concert hall, as part of a programme of music from the Nordic area. The other works are the Prelude to Edvard Grieg’s
Peer Gynt, ‘At the Wedding’, Jean Sibelius’s
The Bard and Carl Nielsen’s First Symphony.
Rumon Gamba appointed as Chief Conductor of Oulu Symphony Orchestra
(c) Andreas Nilsson
The Brit Rumon Gamba, 48, has been appointed as Chief Conductor of Oulu Symphony Orchestra. He succeeds Johannes Gustavsson, whose term with the orchestra expires this spring. Gamba’s contract period will exceptionally start from the beginning of the calendar year, in January 2022, and cover three years with an option of one additional year, the orchestra announced on Twitter.
Rumon Gamba has acquired particular experience in conducting Nordic orchestras. He has been chief conductor of NorrlandsOperan in Umea, Sweden, and of the Danish Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.