Orphei Drängar Thomas Cars and Nanna Sveinsdóttir successful in Eurovision Song Contest
2012-03-16The OD member Thomas Cars yesterday won a seat in the Swedish preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song I mina drömmar that he has written together with his cousin Nanna Sveinsdóttir.The song competed as a web joker and won the SMS vot…
This year’s Honorary Uppland Resident is Cecilia Rydinger Alin
2012-03-16OD’s conductor since 2008, professor Cecilia Rydinger Alin has been named Honorary Uppland Resident 2011.”Cecilia Rydinger Alin has contributed to the renewal of an activity wrought in tradition that is very much a part of Uppsala and what Uppsala is …
OD invited to Berlin and London
2011-09-30Philharmonia Orchestra with its leading principal conductor and artistic advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen has invited Orphei Drängar to perform the Kullervo symphony by Jean Sibelius both as part of Berliner Festspiele in Berlin as well as in the London home of…
OD on a mini tour with Peter Dijkstra
2011-09-30Foto: Marco BorggreveThe weekend 1-3 April male chorus Orphei Drängar, led by the Swedish Radio Choir's conductor Peter Dijkstra, will perform at three concerts at the concert halls in Västerås and Stockholms Konserthus and at the Universit…
Royal Wedding
2010-06-19In connection with the wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and Mr Daniel Westling the Swedish Parliament invited the couple to a gala concert in the Stockholm concert hall. Many leading artists took part and among them were OD.OD was honored to perfor…
Michael Nyqvist at Orphei Drängar's Serenade concert
2010-05-26This year’s serenade concerts with Orphei Drängar, under the theme ”Joy and Rapture” with actor Michael Nyqvist as a guest, will take place on 1 June at 7pm and 9pm.The concert will contain a broad spectrum of music by composers from Henry VIII to …
Elin Rombo guest at Orphei Drängar's Spring Concerts
2010-04-15Tickets for Orphei Drängar's traditional spring concerts 24-25 April are now available. Guest artist this year in lyrical soprano Elin Rombo, seen recently in Figaros bröllop at the Stockholm Opera and previously among other things in Pärlf…
Musicals and visit from the Royal Dramatic Theatre on Orphei Drängar's spring program
2010-01-26The male-voice choir Orphei Drängar is now starting its 2010 spring season with recording sessions on the theme of musicals, traditional spring concerts in April and spring singing on Walpurgis Eve. In May the 50th anniversary of the death of Hugo Alfvé…
Orphei Drängar sing Lucia in cyber space
2009-12-11For the first time a male-voice choir is participating in a celebration of St. Lucia Day in cyber space. On Saturday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m. the Swedish Institute is arranging a "virtual" celebration of Lucia from a stage in the Second House of Sweden.…
Martin Fröst, Svante Henryson, and Johan Wester this year's Caprice guests with Orphei Drängar
2009-12-07Year's sold-out Caprice concerts with OD featured visits from clarinetist Martin Fröst, Svante Henrysson, known both as a classical cellist and as electric bassist in hard-rock bands, and comedian Johan Wester."It's extremely enriching to have a chance t…
Modern Christmas music with modern 156-year-old
2009-11-23Orphei Drängar is preparing for Christmas with a new CD containing Christmas music from many epochs. The traditional organ has been replaced by a brass ensemble and percussion. The soloist is soprano Ida Falk Winland, winner of the 2008 Swedish Soloist P…
Cecilia Rydinger Alin Choir Director of the Year
2009-10-26On Eric Ericson Day in Berwald Hall, Sunday, October 25, KÖRSAM, the coordinating body for the Swedish choral world, awarded the Choir Director of the Year prize to OD's leader Cecilia Rydinger Alin. She is the third Orphei Drängar director to be honore…
Autumn trip to Finland
2009-10-15In a week OD will embark upon its trip to Finland to perform together with YL (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat). Three joint concerts will be given.The program includes works by Bela Bartok, Hugo Alfvén, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Strauss. OD and YL will also …
New 'Drängar' now in place
2009-09-09 Seven new singers have been elected as members of the Sångsällskapet Orphei Drängar. Most of them are natives of Uppsala, but Strängnäs and Ludvika are also represented.Singers are inducted into Orphei Drängar when they have passed an audition led …
Orphei Drängar looking forward to an exciting autumn
2009-08-25The male-voice choir Orphei Drängar's autumn includes performances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen and tours to Brussels and Finland. The autumn will conclude with the Caprice concerts, which attract nearly ten thousand …
Orphei Drängar now on Spotify
2009-08-17The male-voice choir Orphei Drängar's recordings are now available via the online music service Spotify ( www.spotify.com). The recording company BIS is now making all of OD's albums available on Spotify."I'm delighted to make BIS artists available on Sp…
Drinking Songs and Banana Boxes, Orphei Drängar meets Kroumata!
2009-03-30On April 3-5 OD will visit the concert halls in Helsingborg, Gothenburg, and Vara during its spring concert tour. The tour will conclude with two concerts in the Grand Auditorium in Uppsala on April 18-19.A world premier, spring songs, drinking songs, and…
Packed 2009 with OD
2009-01-18Caprice, Oedipus Rex, Spring Concert Tour are som of the events for OD in 2009.On April 3-5, OD, under the direction of Cecilia Rydinger Alin, will tour Sweden together with the percussion ensemble Kroumata. Concerts will be given in Helsingborg, Gothenbu…
