Ragnar Bohlin is since November 2023 artistic director for the choir.

Ragnar Bohlin has had a long and successful career as choir director, both in Sweden and abroad, and currently holds a position as choir director and organist at the Maria Church in Helsingborg. Between 2007 and 2021, Bohlin was the choir director of the San Francisco Symphony, and in 2014 he founded the professional chamber choir Cappella SF. Ragnar has worked with distinguished ensembles around the world, e.g. the Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Chanticleer, The BBC Singers, Sao Paolo Symphony and The Formosa Singers in Taiwan. He has also recorded several albums, for instance with Cappella SF and the Swedish Radio Choir. Ragnar has together with his ensembles won several awards at international choir competitions and was in 2006 awarded the prestigious Johannes Norrby Medal for expanding the frontiers of Swedish choral music.

Ragnar Bohlin has a degree as church musician and holds a diploma in choir conducting from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he studied with Jorma Panula and the legendary choir director Eric Ericson. He has also studied singing with the Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda, has been teaching at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has been a guest professor at the universities in Miami, Michigan and Indiana in the USA.

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