Royal College of Music, Stockholm

Royal College of Music, Stockholm

Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm
Main building of the Royal College of Music.
Type	Public
Established	1771
Location	Stockholm , Sweden
Website	www.kmh.se/in-english.html

The Royal College of Music, Stockholm (Swedish: Kungliga Musikhögskolan i 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 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

• Hugo Alfvén
• Anton Jörgen Andersen
• Bror Beckman
• Natanael Berg
• Viking Dahl (also a notable painter and author)
• Hans Eklund
• Gunnar de Frumerie (also a notable pianist)
• Harald Fryklöf
• Ludwig Göransson
• Anders Hillborg
• Jacob Adolf Hägg
• Hannah Holgersson
• Lars-Erik Larsson
• Ruben Liljefors (also a notable conductor)
• Nils Lindberg (also a notable pianist)
• Pär Lindgren
• Edward McGuire (studied with composer Ingvar Lidholm 1971)
• Erland von Koch
• Otto Olsson
• Karin Rehnqvist
• Amanda Röntgen-Maier
• Ákos Rózmann
• Jan Sandström
• Sven-David Sandström
• Carl Unander-Scharin
• Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom
• Tore Uppström (also a notable pianist and author)
• Adolf Wiklund (also a notable conductor)
• Ivar Widner
• Dag Wirén
• Đuro Živković
• Swani Zubayeer
• Kali Malone

Conductors

• Herbert Blomstedt
• Ragnar Bohlin
• Sixten Ehrling
• Eric Ericson
• Nils Grevillius
• Veronika Portsmuth
• Patrik Ringborg
• Cecilia Rydinger Alin
• Erik Westberg
• Niklas Willén
• Adolf Wiklund (also a composer)
• Ariel Zuckermann (also a flutist)

Instrumentalists

• Adrien Mikael Agreste, pianist
• Tor Aulin, violinist
• Carolina Eyck, theremin player
• Fredrik Fors, clarinetist
• Martin Fröst, clarinetist
• Gustaf Hägg, organist and composer
• David Hughes, bass player
• Anna Lang, harpist
• Ingrid Lang-Fagerström, harpist
• Christian Lindberg, trombone soloist
• Alf Linder, organist
• Henrik Linder, bass player
• Anders Lundegård, saxophonist
• Ellen Nisbeth, violist
• Natalya Pasichnyk, pianist
• Mika Pohjola, jazz pianist and composer
• Monica Ramos, harpist
• Markus Sandlund, cellist
• Staffan Scheja, pianist
• Esbjörn Svensson, jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio
• Mats Widlund, pianist
• Mats Zetterqvist, violinist
• Andreas Öberg, jazz guitarist
• Andreas Johansson, drummer in Narnia and Royal Hunt

Vocalists

• Pernilla Andersson, singer and songwriter
• Margareta Bengtson, soprano and founding member of The Real Group
• Jussi Björling, tenor
• Anders Edenroth, tenor and founding member of The Real Group
• Selma Ek, soprano
• Malena Ernman, soprano
• John Forsell, baritone
• Ellen Gulbranson, soprano
• Erland Hagegård, baritone / tenor
• Håkan Hagegård, baritone
• Anders Jalkéus, bass and founding member of The Real Group
• Peter Jöback, singer and musical artist
• Sofia Karlsson, folk singer
• Leonard Labatt, tenor
• Peter Mattei, baryton
• Kerstin Meyer, mezzo-soprano
• Birgit Nilsson, soprano
• Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
• Olle Persson, baryton
• Susanne Rydén, soprano
• Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
• Kerstin Thorborg, mezzo-soprano
• Lena Willemark, folk singer

Others

• Rasmus Fleischer, Swedish historian, musician, freelance journalist and debater
• Elsa Stuart-Bergstrom, author and music critic

External links

• Media related to Royal College of Music in Stockholm at Wikimedia Commons
• Official webpage