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

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