A big thank you to everyone who attended our Christmas concerts in Allhelgonakyrkan and Lundtofte Kirke in Lyngby. Without our audience we would be nothing! We will soon enjoy our well earned Christmas break, but we still have one more Monday rehearsal to go. Now we will start looking at David Conte’s Gloria which we will record in January. No rest for the wicked…

Merry Christmas to you all!

You’re longing for Christmas, right? Us too! The choir will start rehearsing the Christmas music now for the upcoming Christmas concert, which will take place on December 7th, 2024, at 5 pm in Lunds Allhelgonakyrka. This time we will perform together with organist Lars David Nilsson, conducted by our own Ragnar Bohlin. Will we perform “the chord” this time as well? Those who come to our concert will now…

Sale of tickets has started at Ticketmaster.se (https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/julkonsert-med-lunds-vokalensemble-biljetter/1414339432), but you will also be able to purchase tickets at a discount from members of the choir or at the door one hour before start of the concert.

Christmas spirit guaranteed! Most welcome!

The Swedish national radio (SR P2) recorded our summer concert in Mariakyrkan, Helsingborg on June 15th, and it will be broadcasted on Monday July 8th at 8 pm. We performed music by Vaughan-Williams, Emanuelsson, Mahler, Stenhammar, Hawley and Schütz among others, together with pianist Markus Kvint and conducted by Ragnar Bohlin.

The concert will be available online for thirty days afterwards: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/sommarkonsert-med-lunds-vokalensemble

This past weekend, Lunds Vokalensemble went on a lovely tour and visited Sofiakyrkan in Jönköping, S:t Jacobs kyrka in Stockholm and Växjö domkyrka. A big thank you to all of you who attended our concerts and an especially big thank you to the churches for inviting us. We are in awe and very happy about the great response we got from the audiences on this, our first tour together with Ragnar Bohlin.

Of course we want to give our audience at home a chance to enjoy the musical programme of the tour as well. Therefore, we will perform the music again in Allhelgonakyrkan in Lund on April 14th at 5 pm.

Most welcome!

Lunds Vokalensemble are looking for tenors and basses! Are you an experienced singer with good sight reading skills and looking for new musical adventures? Come and join us!

Under the guidance of our conductor Ragnar Bohlin, you will create music on a high level while enjoying a warm fellowship in the choir. On the agenda for the spring are, among other things, a small tour to Jönköping, Stockholm and Växjö together with concerts at home in Skåne. We are rehearsing on Monday evenings.

Are you intrerested in auditioning for a position in the choir, please contact our conductor Ragnar Bohlin at dirigent@lundsvokalensemble.org

Christmas is coming and per usual, the choir wants to provide proper Christmas spirit to the people, this time under the guidance of our new conductor Ragnar Bohlin. On December 9th, at 18 o’clock, we will perform a host of more or less traditional Christmas songs, together with baritone soloist Sebastian Durán and organist Mats Hultkvist. Please come and listen to us!

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.se/event/julkonsert-med-lunds-vokalensemble-biljetter/649433 You can also buy tickets from VisitLund, members of the choir and at the entrance from one hur prior the the concert.

Hope to see you in Allhelgonakyrkan!

Maria Lindroth has been elected new chairman for Lunds Vokalensemble. Emma Lund, our previous chairman, is now handing over the reins after six years at the helm. She will now be able to enjoy being “just” a singer in the choir. We are extremely grateful for Emmas contributions during this time, where she among other things navigated a pandemic with all the challenges the choir experienced. Emma was thanked for her services at the annual general meeting on October 9th, 2023.

Maria has been a member of the choir for a long time and we are all certain that she will be able to steer the ship with a warm and steady hand, together with our new conductor Ragnar Bohlin.

-I’m incredibly happy and honored for the vote of conficence from the choir members, Maria Lindroth says. It’s big shoes to fill, now that I am taking over the post from Emma, who has done a really fantastic job these past six years. But, with such an amazing board, choir and conductor, the road ahead can’t be anything less than exciting!

A big congratulations to Maria and a heartfelt thank you to Emma for your contributions! We will now continue our work with new, exciting and challenging musical adventures.

We are proud and delighted to be able to announce that Lunds Vokalensemble has appointed Ragnar Bohlin to be the new artistic director and conductor for the choir. Ragnar has worked with the choir several times over the past ten years, and these concerts have truly been highlights, both for the choir and for the audience. Ragnar Bohlin is a conductor of the highest international level and Lunds Vokalensemble is looking forward to a fruitful collaboration over the coming years.

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.

-I’m delighted for the opportunity to work together with Lunds Vokalensemble on a regular basis, Ragnar Bohlin says. Our prior productions together have been some of my favourite choir memories from all of my years as a conductor.

Ragnar starts as conductor for Lunds Vokalensemble in November, but will make guest performance at the concert on Kulturnatten on September 16 at 20.00 in Klosterkyrkan.

A very warm welcome to Lunds Vokalensemble, Ragnar!