Eric Ericson Chamber Choir (Choir)
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 by Eric Ericson and
has played a key role in the Swedish and international music ever
since. The specific aims of the choir and its leader to seek out new
music and new areas of work has today resulted in an extensive repertoire
that ranges from the renaissance to the latest avant-garde.
The Chamber Choir, with its characteristic Nordic sound and wide-ranging
virtuosity, has been an ideal vehicle for several generations of Swedish
composers.
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir ranks alongside the world’s other great
professional ensembles and it has received many international awards including
the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis and the Edison Prize. The Choir
undertakes several tours each year throughout Europe, the USA and Canada.
The Choir has made numerous recordings of a cappella repertoire on
a number of different recording labels.
Together with the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber
Choir has made several recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
including Verdi’s Quattro pezzi sacri and Mozart’s Requiem
with Riccardo Muti as well as Haydn’s The Creation and Beethoven’s
Missa solemnis under the baton of James Levine. The Choir has
made several appearances at La Scala in Milan under Riccardo Muti.
The Choir has also worked on several occasions with Nikolaus Harnoncourt
and his orchestra, the Concentus Musicus Wien, resulting in a
recording of Handel’s Messiah amongst other works.
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and the Swedish Radio Choir have also
been frequent guests at Berlin’s Philharmonie, where they have performed
concerts resulting in recordings of Brahm’s Deutsches Requiem,
Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and
Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
Since 2003, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir has enjoyed extensive
collaboration with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and
the Stockholm Concert Hall, where it performs a large number of
a cappella concerts and works for orchestra and choir each season.
In addition to their extensive a cappella projects, the Eric
Ericson Chamber Choir also frequently collaborates with the Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestra and the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, together
recording all of Bach’s major oratorios. In 2007, the ensemble was
awarded the Nordic Council’s Music Prize.
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