Events

Together with Maria Johansson-Josephsson, Johanna Levin and students from the School of Music in Örebro, Mattias Wager and Gary Graden invite you to a festive final concert after a week with improvisation in focus. Here, the audience will experience music created in the moment – where the boundaries between genres, traditions, and expressions dissolve, and anything can happen.

Listening to Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time in Storkyrkan on Holocaust Memorial Day is an experience marked by both historical memory and spiritual presence. On this memorial day, it resonates as a musical meditation on both the wounds of history and the light that, against all odds, continues to shine through the darkness.

"Boys’ Choir Under the Vaults” is the name of the annual vocal event that brings together the boys’ and men’s choirs from the nation’s cathedrals. This year’s program features works by Bernstein, Howells, Britten, and Bach.

Experiencing the English tradition of evensong is like stepping into another time and another world – as the calm of evening descends, the space is filled with powerful choral singing that, together with the sound of the organ, carries the ancient liturgy. This year’s evensong is part of the Diocese of Stockholm’s church music festival Jubilate, which this year focuses on Norwegian music.

This year’s church music festival in the Diocese of Stockholm — Jubilate — highlights contemporary Norwegian church music by some of the country’s most significant composers — Petra Bjørkhaug, Knut Nystedt, Torbjørn Dyrud, and Kim André Arnesen — performed by the St. Matthew Chamber Choir, Adolf Fredrik Church Chamber Choir, and Gustavsberg Vocal Ensemble.

Listen to Carl Unander-Scharin’s and Mattias Wager’s interpretation of Winterreise — Schubert’s twenty-four remarkable, sorrowful, and multifaceted songs, in which the singer gives voice to a solitary wanderer in a barren winter landscape that mirrors his vulnerability — alone, abandoned, and lost. The piano part comments on and supports the emotional states and atmospheres.

Evensong is a meditative and calming evening service in which music and song create an atmosphere of stillness and reflection. In Storkyrkan this Sunday, the evensong is led by Sofia Ågren and performed by the Stockholm Music High School Chamber Choir.

The biblical concept of love and the Greek distinctions between Eros, Agape, and Philia form the starting point as S:t Jacob’s Chamber Choir performs under guest conductor Cecilia Martin-Löf.

The text of the Stabat Mater was written in the early 14th century and describes Mary’s suffering during the crucifixion of Jesus. We meet several singers from the School of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University in a programme built around this hymn. Music by Pergolesi, Boccherini, Berkeley, and others.

Storkyrkans Kammarkör i ett mångfacetterat körmusikprogram som utforskar livets mening. Musil av Ann-Sofi Söderberg, Caroline Shaw, Max Reger, Ingvar Lidholm, Sven-Eric Johanson med flera.

The title of the concert alludes to the recurring theme in several of the pieces: the human being who, through prayer, worship, or contemplation, receives something from God. Music by Jan Sandström, Sven-David Sandström, Henry Purcell, Nana Forte, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, among others.

The Apology – Sii bivde ándagassii is Giron Sámi Teáhter’s stage production created in response to the high mass at which the then Archbishop Antje Jackelén apologized for the Church of Sweden’s involvement in the colonization of the Sámi people.

Welcome to a powerful musical experience as S:t Jacob’s Chamber Choir performs one of the most significant works in Western music history – Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion.

When Svensk Musikvår – the annual festival for contemporary art music – returns to Storkyrkan, it does so with a concert where the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet meets the organ in three entirely new works by Zacharias Ehnvall, Paula af Malmborg Ward and David Riebe.

On Good Friday we offer a moment of stillness through a poetic and musical journey along the fourteen Stations of the Cross, the Via Dolorosa. The poetic texts of Paul Claudel come to life through Stina Ekblad’s interpretation, and Marcel Dupré’s organ music moves between tender tranquility and powerful drama.

This evening, Storkyrkan is filled with the sounds of one of the world’s most acclaimed choirs: The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. The concert offers music in which each piece carries its own story, allowing the audience to experience space, comfort, and the human voice in its most beautiful form.”

During Culture Night, the doors to a world of sound open in Storkyrkan. Come and experience the city’s cathedral filled with music, light, and presence. Let the tones carry you through history — right in the heart of the Old Town.

Seven Last Words from the Cross is not only a musical masterpiece, but also a living manifestation of James MacMillan’s significance for contemporary art music. In this cantata for choir and string orchestra, the seven last words of Jesus on the cross are conveyed in an expressive musical meditation. St. Jacob’s Vocal Ensemble and orchestra perform the work under the direction of Mikael Wedar.

Palestrina’s renowned mass is interwoven with Arvo Pärt’s frequently performed and much-loved motets. The concert marks the conclusion of six years of collaboration between Chief Conductor Kaspars Putniņš and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Experience the magic of spring as wind players and choir come together in a captivating program full of energy and vibrant expression. The concert features, among other works, excerpts from Haydn’s magnificent oratorio Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) and Fanny Mendelssohn’s six lyrical Lieder.

The Chamber Choir of the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar embarks on a long-awaited tour of Sweden, with an exclusive performance at Storkyrkan. The audience is invited to an enthralling concert featuring a cappella works from the German Romantic and Baroque periods, alongside contemporary compositions by Swedish and Finnish composers of the 21st century.

Listen to the next generation of singers and instrumentalists studying at the Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University, housed in Västerås Castle. The students present chamber music and solo works from the Nordic countries, Europe, and North America. The programme includes both newly composed and well-known repertoire – a spring-inspired mix full of life and renewal.

A resonant panorama of Nordic and international choral lyricism unfolds as InCantus presents music that moves between intimacy, rhythmic vitality, and spiritual wonder. Music by Oskar Lindberg, David Wikander, Arvo Pärt, Karl Jenkins, Agneta Sköld among others.

Lars-Erik Larsson’s A God Disguised is a beloved Swedish classic, a favorite work for many Swedes. The text by Hjalmar Gullberg, written during the troubled times of the 1930s, captures hope, compassion, and human dignity. Gullberg drew inspiration for his poem from the myth of the god Apollo, who wanders among humans in disguise — an allegory of the divine being present without being seen. Stina Ekblad serves as narrator when the piece is performed by the Storkyrkan Chamber Choir and the Stockholm Cathedral Choir, with Miah Persson and Karl Söderström as soloists

Welcome to a magical summer evening in Storkyrkan, where the power of music unites the heavenly and the earthly. Under the direction of Gary Graden, S:t Jacob’s Chamber Choir presents a concert filled with light, resonance, and heartfelt expression.

Storkyrkan is visited by choirs from Denmark and Norway, who together with S:t Jacob’s Vocal Ensemble present a program in which older music is given new life through modern interpretations. We are invited to hear Nordic sonorities in the meeting between tradition and renewal. Music by Henry Purcell, Bo Holten, Edvard Grieg, among others.