PARKMAN, STEFAN (b 1952 )

Stefan Parkman (b. 1952). At the Royal College of Music in Stockholm he studied singing, as well as choral conducting with Eric Ericson and orchestral conducting with Jorma Panula. He was director of the Boy’s Choir at Uppsala Cathedral from 1974 to 1988, and conducter of the Royal Philharmonic Chorus in Stockholm from 1985 to 1993. Since 1983 he has been conducter of the Uppsala Chamber Choir. In 1988 he was appointed chief conducter of the Danish National Radio Choir, having been a regular guest since 1983. Stefan Parkman has conducted most of Scandinavia’s symphony orchestras and ensembles. He performs regularly with the Swedish Radio Choir, and often works with Stockholm Opera and the Drottningholm Festival Opera and Ballet. As a freelance conducter Stefan Parkman appears with numerous ochestras and ensembles in Scandinavia, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Opera in Stockholm. He regularly conducts the Swedish Radio Choir, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the BBC Singers, teaches choral conducting at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and gives master-classes in Scandinavia and elsewhere. He also appears as a soloist, primarily as the Evangelist, in baroque oratorios and passions. In 1997 Stefan Parkman was made Knight of the Dannebrog.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
SCHNITTKE: Symphony No. 4 / Requiem	BIS-CD-497
SOUNDS OF SUND (The)	BIS-NL-CD-5030