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Awards Grammis Award for Classical of the Year Record labels BIS Records, Classic Produktion Osnabrück Nominations Grammis Award for Children's Album of the Year Conductors Michael Francis, Junichi Hirokami, Herbert Blomstedt, Okko Kamu, Lü Jia Similar Allan Pettersson, Christian Lindberg, Michael Francis, Swedish Radio Symphon, Royal Stockholm Philharm Profiles | ||
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Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (Swedish: Norrköpings Symfoniorkester) is a Swedish professional symphony orchestra, based at the concert hall De Geerhallen, in the middle of Norrköping.
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History
The orchestra was founded in 1912, and currently consists of 85 musicians; it also performs several times a year in the nearby city of Linköping.
Past principal conductors have included Herbert Blomstedt and Franz Welser-Möst. From September 2006 to June 2011 the principal conductor and artistic adviser of the orchestra was the Kazakhstani conductor Alan Buribayev. Past principal guest conductors have included Leif Segerstam (1995–1997), Daniel Harding and Josep Caballé-Domenech. Stefan Solyom became the orchestra's principal guest conductor as of the 2009-2010 season.
The orchestra has recorded for the BIS, CPO, Denon and Simax labels, including symphonies by Peterson-Berger, complete works for piano and orchestra by Beethoven, and works by John Pickard.