74 Notable alumni of
Royal College of Music, Stockholm
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The Royal College of Music, Stockholm is 874th in the world, 308th in Europe, and 7th in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 notable alumni from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ludwig Göransson
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- record producerfilm score composerconductorcomposersongwriter
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Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson is a Swedish musician, composer, conductor, songwriter, and record producer. He is often regarded as one of the most successful composers in Hollywood of the 21st century. For his work in music, film and television, he has won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and six Grammy Awards.
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Malena Ernman
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- musicianperforming artistactorauthormusical theatre actor
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Sara Magdalena Ernman, known professionally as Malena Ernman, is a Swedish mezzo-soprano opera singer. Besides operas and operettas, she has also performed chansons, cabaret, jazz, and appeared in musicals. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Ernman represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "La Voix", finishing in 21st place.
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King Diamond
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- singersongwriter
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Kim Bendix Petersen, better known by his stage name King Diamond, is a Danish rock musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his powerful and wide-ranging countertenor singing voice, in particular his far-reaching falsetto screams. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for both Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King Diamond. He also plays keyboards and guitars on studio recordings but uses live shows to focus solely on his vocal performance. Diamond is renowned for his dark lyrical content and his story concepts. He is also known for his distinctive shock stage persona (in particular his black and white facepaint). He has been an influence for other rock and metal artists, including Metallica, Slayer and Cradle of Filth.
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Herbert Blomstedt
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- conductormusician
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Herbert Thorson Blomstedt is an American-born Swedish conductor of classical music. At the age of 98, he continues to conduct concerts in Europe and the United States.
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Jussi Björling
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- opera singer
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Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th century, Björling appeared for many years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and less frequently at the major European opera houses, including the Royal Opera House in London and La Scala in Milan. He sang the Italian, French and Russian opera repertory with taste.
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Peter Jöback
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- voice actorrecording artistsingeractor
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Peter Arne Jöback is a Swedish singer, actor and musical artist.
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Esbjörn Svensson
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- composerjazz pianist
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Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.
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Hugo Alfvén
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1887-1891
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- painterconductorcomposerclassical composermusicologist
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Hugo Emil Alfvén was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfvén was one of Sweden's principal composers. His "Swedish Rhapsody”, written when he was 31, is still one of the best-known pieces of Swedish music. After extensive European travels to develop his musical skills, Alfvén taught composition, before conducting choirs and orchestras. In 1954, he made the first Swedish classical stereo recordings. Hugo Alfvén’s extensive musical archive is held at Uppsala University, where he was music director for twenty-nine years.
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Sylvia Vrethammar
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- singerjazz musician
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Eva Sylvia Vrethammar is a Swedish traditional pop and jazz singer.
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Pernilla Andersson
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- singer-songwritersinger
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Pernilla Maria Theresa Andersson Dregen is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She is the singing coach for the TV program True Talent.
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Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
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- music criticmusicologistcomposer
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Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom.
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Kurt Atterberg
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- choreographerconductorcomposerclassical composeruniversity teacher
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Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer and civil engineer. Along with Ture Rangström, he was one the foremost Swedish composers of the generation succeeding Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo Alfvén. Atterberg is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.
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Peter Mattei
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- opera singer
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Peter Mattei in Piteå is a Swedish operatic baritone, particularly known for his performances in Mozart's baritone roles.
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Monica Dominique
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- conductorpianistcomposeractorjazz musician
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Monica Dominique is a Swedish pianist, composer, and actress. As a musician, she is primarily a jazz pianist, and she has composed with her husband, who is also a pianist. The two often perform piano four hands together in concert. Dominique acted from 1969 until the 1990s. Her brother was the jazz musician Palle Danielsson. She was inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Lars-Erik Larsson
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- composerrecord producerorganistuniversity teachermusicologist
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Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson was a Swedish composer, conductor, radio producer, and educator. He wrote three of the most popular works (each a suite) in Swedish art music: A Winter's Tale (En vintersaga; 1937–1938), the Pastoral Suite (Pastoralsvit; 1938), and God in Disguise (Förklädd gud; 1940). Other notable works by Larsson include three symphonies, a sinfonietta, and numerous concertante works.
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Sofia Karlsson
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- singersongwriterrecording artist
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Johanna Sofia Blåsippa Karlsson is a classically-trained Swedish folk singer and songwriter. Her breakthrough album was of poems from a book by the Swedish proletarian poet Dan Andersson, Svarta ballader. She is known for her interpretations of poems and songs by authors as varied as Baudelaire, Mikael Wiehe, Inger Hagerup, Carl Michael Bellman, Peps Persson, Evert Taube, and Boris Vian. She has won both Swedish and Danish Grammys.
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Eric Ericson
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- conductormusic educatorchoir directoruniversity teacher
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Eric Gustaf Ericson was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher.
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Staffan Scheja
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- pianist
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Bo Staffan Scheja is a Swedish pianist and professor. Scheja started studying piano at the age of nine and made his concert debut at the age of 14 with the Sveriges Radios symfoniorkester. He also performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm 1964–1969 and 1969–1972 at the Juilliard School in New York with pianists Rosina Lhévinne, Ilona Kabos and Ania Dorfmann.
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Christian Lindberg
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- trombonistconductorcomposer
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Christian Lindberg is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.
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Anders Eljas
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- composerpianist
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Anders Erik Gillis Eljas is a Swedish musician, orchestrator and conductor.
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Elfrida Andrée
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1860
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- composerorganistconductorwomen's rights activist
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Elfrida Andrée was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar.
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Elisabeth Söderström
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- opera singer
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Anna Elisabeth Söderström CBE was a Swedish soprano who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and The Makropoulos Affair, all of which received Gramophone Awards. The Gramophone critic John Warrack described her portrayal of Káťa Kabanová as "establishing by an infinity of subtle touches and discreet, sensitive singing the picture of Káta as the richest and most human character in the drama".
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Kerstin Meyer
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- opera singerillustrator
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Kerstin Margareta Meyer, CBE was a Swedish mezzo-soprano who enjoyed an international career in opera and concert. A long-time member of the Royal Swedish Opera and Hamburg State Opera, she appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and international opera houses and festivals, including in world premieres such as Alexander Goehr's Arden Must Die and György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
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Rigmor Gustafsson
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- singer
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Rigmor Elisabeth Gustafsson is a Swedish jazz singer.
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Jacob Mühlrad
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- composer
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Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad is a Swedish composer who has worked with prominent choirs and orchestras across the world. He has also collaborated with pop music acts and produced film music. Mühlrad's modern classical works have been performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Victoria Hall in Singapore, the Orpheum in Vancouver, the Norwegian Opera, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Kristin Amparo
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- singer
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Kristin Viktoria Amparo Sundberg is a Swedish singer. She attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. She participated in season 1 of the Swedish X Factor in 2012, which was broadcast on TV4, where she made it to the judge's houses stage before being eliminated. Amparo participated in Melodifestivalen 2015 with the song "I See You" in the third semi-final. She made it to the "Second Chance" round but failed to make it to the Melodifestivalen final.
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Dag Wirén
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- composerorganistpianistmusic critic
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Dag Ivar Wirén was a Swedish composer.
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Hilding Rosenberg
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- music educatorconductorcomposerpianistmusicologist
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Hilding Constantin Rosenberg was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly regarded as the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century classical music in Sweden.
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Rasmus Fleischer
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- musicianwriterhistorianjournalistblogger
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Rasmus Fleischer is a Swedish historian, essayist and musician. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2012 with a dissertation that was also published as a book of 640 pages: "The political economy of music: Legislation, sound media and the defence of live music, 1925–2000".
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Amanda Röntgen-Maier
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- violinistcomposermusician
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Amanda Röntgen-Maier was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1872.
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Sixten Ehrling
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- pianistconductormusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Evert Sixten Ehrling was a Swedish conductor and pianist who, during a long career, served as the music director of the Royal Swedish Opera and the principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, amongst others.
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Peter Dijkstra
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- 1978-.. (age 48)
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- conductor
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Peter Dijkstra is a Dutch conductor, especially of choirs and vocal ensembles.
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Erland von Koch
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1931-1935
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- choreographercomposerorganistpianistuniversity teacher
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Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film.
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Sofi Jeannin
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- choir directorsinger
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Sofi Jeannin is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano.
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Ann Hallenberg
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- opera singerperforming artist
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Ann Hallenberg is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. She has an operatic career on the stage and concert platform around Europe. She regularly appears in major opera houses and festivals, in roles by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, and Purcell.
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Tor Aulin
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- composerconcertmasterconductorviolinist
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Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist and a conductor and a composer.
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Matti Lehtinen
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- opera singerprofessor
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Matti Kalervo Lehtinen was a Finnish operatic baritone, a long-term member of the Finnish National Opera, and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy. He appeared at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and international opera houses, and as an oratorio and lieder singer.
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Oskar Lindberg
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- music teacherorganistcomposer
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Oskar Fredrik Lindberg was a Swedish composer, church musician, teacher and professor. In 1939 he edited the Church of Sweden's hymnbook. His 1912 Requiem was of particular importance to the history of Swedish liturgical works.
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August Söderman
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- oboistconductorcomposer
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Johan August Söderman was a Swedish composer. He was born and died in Stockholm, and has traditionally been seen as the pre-eminent Swedish composer of the Romantic generation, known especially for his lieder and choral works, based on folk material, and for his theatre music, such as the incidental music to Ludvig Josephson's Marsk Stigs döttrar (Marshal Stig's daughter"), 1866, or his Svenskt festspel ("Swedish Festival Music").
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Gunnar de Frumerie
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- pianistmusic educatorcomposer
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Per Gunnar Fredrik de Frumerie was a Swedish composer and pianist. He was the son of architect Gustaf de Frumerie and Maria Helleday.
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Otto Olsson
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- musicologistorganistcomposer
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Otto Emanuel Olsson was a Swedish organist and classical music composer.
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Kristina Axén Olin
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1987
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- teacherpolitician
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Anna Kristina Axén Olin is a Swedish Moderate politician and a member of the Riksdag, she is currently serving as a member and the Second vice-speaker of the Education Committee. She currently takes up seat number 244 in the Riksdag. She was a member of the Justice Committee from her entry in the Riksdag until February 2019. She held the post of mayor of Stockholm between 2006 and 2008, being the city's second female mayor. She also served as deputy chairman of the party from 2003 to 2009, when she was replaced by Beatrice Ask.
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Mai Leisz
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- composermusician
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Mai Leisz is an Estonian bass player and composer.
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Set Svanholm
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1927-1929
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- opera singertheatre manager
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Set Svanholm was a Swedish operatic tenor, considered the leading Tristan and Siegfried of the first decade following World War II.
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Valborg Aulin
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- pianistmusic educatorcomposer
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Laura Valborg Aulin was a Swedish pianist and composer. Aulin's String Quartet in E minor, Op. 17 and String Quartet in F minor are the most important Swedish music compositions in that genre from the 1880s.
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Emil Sjögren
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1869-1874
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- pianistorganistcomposer
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Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer.
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Helena Munktell
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- pianistmusic educatorcomposer
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Helena Mathilda Munktell was a Swedish composer.
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Anna-Lisa Björling
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- opera singeractor
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Anna-Lisa Björling was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was married to tenor Jussi Björling from 1935 until his death in 1960.
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Eugene Tzigane
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- conductor
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Eugene Tzigane is a symphonic and operatic conductor. He is currently Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Kuopio Symphony Orchestra in Kuopio, Finland, since 2023.
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John Forsell
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- opera directormilitary personnelopera singermusic educator
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Carl Johan Jacob Forsell, known as John Forsell, was a prominent Swedish baritone, opera administrator and teacher of voice. He was the leading baritone of the Royal Swedish Opera (RSO) from 1896 to 1918, and thereafter sang roles periodically with the company until his last stage performance in 1938. From 1923б to 1939 he served as the director of the RSO. He also sang leading roles as a guest artist with opera companies internationally, drawing particular acclaim for his portrayal of the title character in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni.
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Natanael Berg
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- composerchoreographermilitary personnelveterinarian
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Carl Natanael Rexroth-Berg was a Swedish composer.
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Adolf Wiklund
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- composerpianistorganistconductor
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Adolf Wiklund was a Swedish composer and conductor. He was born in Långserud, Värmland, and his father was an organist. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher, Wiklund was awarded scholarships to study piano in Sweden and then in Paris. His debut as a piano soloist came in 1902 playing his own Konsertstycke in C major, Op 1.
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Gustaf Nordqvist
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1901-1910
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- church musicianorganistcomposer
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Gustaf Nordqvist was a Swedish composer, organist, and music educator.
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Patrik Ringborg
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- conductor
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Patrik Ringborg is a Swedish conductor, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Ellen Arkbro
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- composer for carillonorganistcomposer
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Ellen Arkbro is a Swedish composer, sound artist and musician working with precision-tuned harmony in frameworks such as just intonation and meantone temperament. Having primarily composed for and performed on pipe organ, Arkbro's work has also included pieces for other acoustic instruments and sound synthesis. She has released several studio albums, beginning with For Organ and Brass (2017), in additional to several collaborative works.
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Veronika Portsmuth
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- singerchoir directorconductor
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Veronika Portsmuth is an Estonian conductor and singer.
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Fredrik Ullén
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- musicianpianist
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Fredrik Ullén is a Swedish cognitive neuroscientist and concert pianist. He is internationally known for his recordings of complex piano repertoire — including the complete works of György Ligeti and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s 100 Transcendental Studies — as well as for research on the neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral genetics of music, creativity, and flow.
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Ruben Liljefors
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- music teacherconductorcomposer
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Ruben Mattias Liljefors was a Swedish composer and conductor, brother of the artist Bruno Liljefors.
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Marie Samuelsson
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1987-1995
- Occupations
- composer
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Marie Samuelsson is a Swedish composer.
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Kadri Voorand
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- singerbandleadercomposerpianistlyricist
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Kadri Voorand is an Estonian singer, songwriter, and composer. She has won multiple Estonian Music Awards and is signed to ACT Music, one of Europe's prominent jazz labels.
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Ellen Gulbranson
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- opera singermusic educator
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Ellen Gulbranson was a Swedish operatic soprano with a strong, dramatic voice best suited to the works of Richard Wagner. She was a leading figure among the second generation of Bayreuth singers and her voice is preserved on a few acoustic recordings that she made for Edison Records and Pathé Records during the early part of the 20th century. In 1911, she was awarded The King's Medal of Merit by Sweden's monarch.
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Anton Jörgen Andersen
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- composercellist
- Biography
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Anton Jørgen Andersen was a Norwegian composer and cellist.
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Carl Unander-Scharin
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- opera singercomposer
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Carl Unander-Scharin is a Swedish opera singer, composer, professor, and researcher.
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Fredrik Ljungkvist
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- saxophonistcomposerjazz musician
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Håkan Fredrik Ljungkvist, is a Swedish jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet), the son of saxophonist Håkan Ljungkvist and married to the jazz singer Lina Nyberg.
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Nils Grevillius
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- violinistarchitectconductor
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Nils Grevillius was a Swedish conductor and violinist.
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Ákos Rózmann
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- composerorganist
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Ákos Rózmann was a Hungarian-Swedish composer and organist.
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Gustaf Hägg
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- organistcomposermusician
- Biography
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Gustaf Wilhelm Petersson Hägg was a Swedish organist and composer.
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Viking Dahl
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- composerpainterorganistwriter
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Viking Dahl was a Swedish composer, active also as a painter and an author.
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Dina Edling
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
- Studied in 1872-1876
- Occupations
- actorvoice teacheropera singer
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Dina Edling, née Niehoff (14 November 1854 – 9 January 1935) was a Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano), singing teacher, and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Ellen Nisbeth
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- violistmusician
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Ellen Nisbeth is a Swedish violist. She performed on Britta Byström's CD, "Invisible Cities" and on Ensemble Ernst's CD, "...BUT..." As part of the European Concert Hall Organisation's "Rising Star" program, Nisbeth performed "Tales Of Lost Times" for solo viola by Katarina Leyman and other works by Kaija Saariaho at Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in January 2018.
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Heidi Skjerve
- Occupations
- singercomposerjazz musician
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Heidi Skjerve is a Norwegian jazz musician (singer) and composer.
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Selma Ek
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Selma Ek was a Swedish operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1870s through the 1890s. Like Lilli Lehmann and Lillian Nordica, she was one of those universally talented singers of the late 19th century who was able to master roles from the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic soprano repertoires. The leading Swedish soprano of her day, she was particularly admired for her portrayals of Mozart, Wagner, and Verdi heroines.
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Leonard Labatt
- Occupations
- opera singermusic educator
- Biography
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Leonard Labatt was a Swedish dramatic tenor.
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Anders Lundegård
- Occupations
- saxophonist
- Biography
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Anders Olof Lundegård is a Swedish classical saxophonist. Lundegård is best known for his cello-like tone and intense performance style.
