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The artistic team at the Queen Silvia Concert Hall is delighted to present the second full season of concerts. The overarching theme of the 2025/26 season is Labyrinths.

Responding to an invitation from the Konzerthaus Berlin, in association with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Young Euro Classics festival, O/Modernt joined forces with Lilla Akademien to create a new symphony orchestra...

In 2024 the Queen Silvia Concert Hall and O/Modernt commissioned Jacob's Ladder, a major new work by Steve Reich. Other co-commissioners were the New York Philharmonic, BBC Radio 3, Fundação Casa da Música, Istanbul Music Festival and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio France and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra...

We are proud to announce that the Queen Silvia Concert Hall is the recipient of the prestigious Nordic Lighting Design Award 2024! On Lysets dag, November 13th, the winner was announced after close observation and testing by the committee. In the motivation for the Queen Silvia Concert hall as the winner, special emphasis was put on how the lighting does not disturb the excellent acoustics of the hall. The jury was also impressed with how the lighting designers, on a very low budget, have managed to create a user-friendly system which enhances the architecture of the hall while meeting the high demands on acoustics and flexibility of the space...