Göteborgs Konserthus University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Danish Launy Grøndahl (1886-1960) was for over 30 years conductor of the radio orchestra in Copenhagen. He also wrote a lot of music, including the internationally successful trombone concerto from 1924, composed during a stay in Italy. Here we meet a melodic, thoughtful and romantic work with “walking bass” and the blue notes of Gershwin.

With Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz shocked the world in 1830. He broke the frames of the symphony, invented completely new sounds with his ingenious and innovative orchestration and frightened the audience. Even as late as 1908, when Wilhelm Stenhammar conducted the symphony for the first time in Gothenburg, the reception was similar: “…this strange and bizarre product of the ingenious imagination, and the volcanically simmering temperament, which here revel in sensual music paintings, but whose intense worship of the expressive power of the notes, reveals a marvelous lack of perception of the deeper essence of music.” (Handelstidningen) A revolutionary who not only threatened prevailing spiritual values, but even worse, the good taste.

University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

The University of Stage and Music at the University of Gothenburg offers a orchestra education at master’s level. The students who are admitted to the program form their own orchestra – University of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This orchestra forms the basis for educations with students from all over the world. The education is given in collaboration with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Opera and the opera education at the University of Stage and Music to offer the basic repertoire for every professional orchestra musician.