Swedish Choir to
Perform at Yale
Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala (Sweden)
conducted by Stefan Parkman
February 19, 4:00 pm
Christ Church Episcopal (84 Broadway at Elm)
www.uak.se
The Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala (Sweden), conducted by Stefan
Parkman, will perform in New Haven on Sunday, February 19 at 4 pm
at Christ Church Episcopal (84 Broadway at Elm).
The Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala is a mixed choir of 45 singers
founded nearly 50 years ago; its first conductor was Eric Ericson.
The choir’s extensive repertoire encompasses early music from
the Renaissance as well as new music written for the choir. The
choir has made a number of recordings, including a 3-cd set of Swedish
a cappella music on the Chandos label. Its conductor, Stefan
Parkman, has served as principal conductor of the Danish Radio Choir,
returning to Sweden in 2002 to assume the post as principal conductor
of the Swedish Radio Choir in Stockholm. He is professor of choral
conducting at Uppsala University Choral Centre, and active as a
choral and orchestral conductor throughout Scandinavia and Europe.
In New Haven, the group will perform the seldom-heard All-Night
Vigil of Serge Rachmaninoff. Written in 1915 while Russia was
wracked by inner turmoil and ravaged by World War I, the Vsenoshchnoye
bdeniye (All-Night Vigil) is widely regarded as the composer’s
finest unaccompanied choral work.
The free concert is presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
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