Soprano Karin Dahlberg and pianist Bernt Wilhelmsson visit the Grimeton World Heritage Site with a unique concert in the radio station’s broadcasting hall, the place where Karin’s grandfather Hans Palmqvist was station manager for 40 years.
Karin Dahlberg, born and raised in Håcksvik, has sung on several European concert stages and has a special relationship with the radio station. The concert will therefore be a grand and warmly personal encounter with both the music and these two great musicians in a different setting in the heart of the radio station, where communication has been the key word since 1924. This concert is part of the Grimeton World Heritage Site’s ‘Communication for better or worse’.
The program to be performed in Grimeton will include Gösta Nystroem’s ‘På reveln’ and from Mahler’s ‘Rückert Lieder’. But also opera gems such as Puccini’s ‘O mio babbino caro’, Handel’s ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ and Purcell’s ‘Music for a while’. The audience is treated to music from Italy, England, Sweden, Germany and is also washed by a long wave from America in Duke Ellington’s “Heaven”.
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Concert ticket 280 kr
Grimeton World Heritage Site, Transmitter Room, 15.00 hrs.
Admission at 14.40
The café in the Visitor Center is open.
Please pre-order Opera-fika and enjoy coffee/tea + shrimp sandwich for 120 SEK/person before the concert. Then order a concert ticket including opera coffee, total 400 kr.
Record release!
Karin Dahlberg is also releasing her first solo album this weekend. After the concert, Karin Dahlberg invites you to a “Release Bowl” and record signing in the café. The album will be available for purchase at the event.
Everyone is welcome!
About Karin Dahlberg
Karin Dahlberg (formerly Roman) is a Swedish soprano with an extensive repertoire from baroque to contemporary music. Since her debut in 2004, with Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, she has performed with numerous Swedish and international orchestras. In recent seasons, Karin has been a regular soloist at the Berliner Philharmonie in works such as Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Verdi’s Requiem. Karin’s vocal versatility also allows her to move freely within the musical and jazz genres, and she has performed jazz standards and Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert with big bands.
Karin is a devoted singer of romances and has collaborated with pianist Bernt Wilhelmsson for many years. Together, they have performed in Sweden and internationally to rave reviews. Karin Dahlberg received the Varberg Municipality’s Culture Scholarship in 2002 and on June 6, 2023 she was also awarded the Varberg Municipality’s Honorary Plaque in Culture.
Bernt Wilhelmsson, piano
Bernt Wilhelmsson grew up in Orust and started playing the piano at the age of seven. He made his debut as a soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 1997. Bernt gives frequent piano recitals and chamber music concerts and as a soloist he has performed piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Gershwin, Stenhammar and Stravinsky.
He has performed in Scotland, Iceland, Norway, the Baltic States, France, the Czech Republic, the USA, Argentina and Canada, and during his concert visits he has recorded for music radio in Estonia, Latvia, Norway and on several occasions for Swedish Radio P2. Since 2008, Bernt has been a lecturer in piano and chamber music at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg and is often engaged by the Gothenburg Opera as an orchestral pianist.
