Millesgården Museum, in collaboration with Konserthuset Stockholm, is once again hosting outdoor concerts at Millesgården. Experience music, art, and good food in perfect harmony.

The doors to the sculpture park open well before the concert, allowing visitors to experience the magical Millesgården in its early summer attire. Enjoy a glass of bubbly or some light refreshments at the summer café outside Anne’s House, then find a nice spot to settle down and enjoy the music.

At each event, an ensemble performs music carefully selected to suit both the location and the time when the Milles couple lived there. At this final concert, we hear an ensemble consisting of young Polish musicians from the NOSPR Orchestra Academy, which is affiliated with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. It is a higher specialized education for musicians, similar to the orchestra academy affiliated with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Konserthuset. The two orchestra academies have also collaborated on several occasions.

In collaboration with Millesgården

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The concert is presented as part of the project Institutions of the Future 2024–2025, with support from the Polish Ministry of Culture under the Inspiring Culture initiative. It is also carried out in collaboration with and with support from the Polish Institute.

Join us for the concluding concert of Adolf Fredrik’s Music School. All 240 students in year 9 will finish off their time at the now two schools with a joint concert at Konserthuset Stockholm.

Adolf Fredrik’s Music School is a specialised school with a focus on choral singing. Music is part of all operations at the school and all students participate in active and outward-oriented concert activities. With music as a language and choral singing as a method, Adolf Fredrik’s Music School educates choral singers for tomorrow’s Swedish choirs.

Since 2016, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has hosted an ”Orchestra Academy”. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year, advanced academic programme for young musicians. Under the guidance of the section leaders from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Piteå School of Music, the musicians receive intensive training individually, in chamber music, and orchestral playing.

They also showcase their talents through a series of public chamber music concerts – such as this one featuring this year’s academy musicians. This finale is more than just a traditional chamber concert – we hear Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in a version for a smaller ensemble, led by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Ryan Bancroft!

Symphony No. 4 is both simple and sophisticated; it is like dewdrops on a flower, suddenly shimmering with thousands of colours as the sunlight touches them – as Mahler himself described the melodies of the first movement. The symphony has been called “heavenly blue.” The first three movements lead to a final movement with a soprano solo: Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden – We revel in the heavenly joys. It is open, bright, lyrical, yet also playful, with themes and sonorities from the earlier movements reappearing.

The soloist is the Swedish soprano Karin Mobacke, who in recent years has been gaining increasing attention on the country’s opera and concert stages. She made her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023 in a concert performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann’s national opera Gustaf Wasa.