Tobias Ringborg is one of the most prolific musical talents to emerge
from Sweden in later years. He is equally at home on the concert podium
as a conductor and violinist, as in the opera house. His musical
career started when, as a violinist, he won the prestigious
Swedish Soloist Prize in 1994, the year of his graduation from the
Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He then went on to study at the
Juilliard School in New York, graduating in 1996.
As a violinist Tobias Ringborg has appeared with all the Swedish
orchestras and collaborated with conductors such as
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Okko Kamu,
Sakari Oramo and Daniel Harding. As a chamber musician he regularly
appears at all major venues in Sweden and several major
Scandinavian music festivals. International merits include the
first prize at the Concours International de Musique de Chimay
in Belgium and recitals and orchestral concerts throughout
Europe as well as in America.
He has recorded about twenty CD:s, with chamber music and
violin concertos, predominantly by Swedish composers. He plays
an 18th century violin by Niccolò Gagliano, on loan from
the Järnåker foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
In later years Tobias Ringborg has expanded his musical career into
conducting. In 2001 he won an important conducting competition in
Helsingborg, and has since then been invited to every Swedish orchestra,
often in the dual role of soloist and conductor.
A lifelong passion for opera manifested itself early in his
conducting
career,
and in 2002 he began a two year association with the Malmö Opera,
leading productions of Mozart’s
Don Giovanni, Strauss’
Ariadne auf Naxos
and Verdi’s
La Traviata and
Otello. In 2001 he made his debut at the
Stockholm Royal Opera with Puccini’s
La Bohème, and since then he
has maintained strong ties to that company, leading a.o. Puccini’s
Manon Lescaut and
Tosca, Bizet’s
Carmen, Donizetti’s
L’Elisir d’Amore, Mozart’s
Don Giovanni and
Die Zauberflöte,
Verdi’s
Don Carlo and Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin.
In spring 2005 he conducted Puccini’s
Turandot at Norrlandsoperan in Umeå,
a production that was widely acclaimed and broadcast by Swedish Television,
and made his debut as conductor and soloist with the English Chamber
Orchestra at the Barbican Hall.
In 2006 engagements included Mozart’s
Così fan tutte at Värmlandsoperan
in Karlstad (in Peter Konwitschny’s production from Komische Oper) and
the world premiere of Carl Unander-Scharin’s new opera
Loranga, Mazarin & Dartanjang at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.
The same fall he returned to Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,
another orchestra to which he has a strong connection, to lead
the season opening concert with the world premiere of
Sven-David Sandström’s Symphony No 3 and Rachmaninovs second symphony.
This and the following season include engagements with the
Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, and a number of
chamber orchestras in Sweden. He will make his debut with the
Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark. In spring 2007 Tobias Ringborg
led the new production of Rossini’s
Barbiere di Siviglia
at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo and this summer finds him
at the the International Vadstena Academy where he will lead Foroni’s
bel canto opera
Cristina di Svezia. This will be followed,
in fall 2007, by Puccini’s
La Fanciulla del West at Malmö Opera,
and in spring 2008 Gounod’s
Faust at the Danish National Opera
in Aarhus followed by a nationwide tour of Denmark.
In between the operas he will continue his collaboration
with the Helsingborg and Norrköping Symphony Orchestras,
the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra, and make his conducting
debut in Scotland with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera.
Säsongen 2007/2008
Kontakt:
Malin Gjörup, Artist Manager,
Svenska Konsertbyrån, Stockholm
malin@svenskakonsertbyran.se
phone: +46 8 665 80 88
mobile: +46 8 735 04 04 09
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