Kristofer Wahlander

November 12, 1974 (age 31)

He founded the Saint St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra in Russia in 2001 and recorded Tchaikovsky"s 5th symphony on the Louisiana Forza label with the same orchestra (LFCD051). Served as artistic director for the Nordic Music Festival in Saint St. Petersburg from 2004-2007. In 2008, he founded the Music at the Fort festival which turned the former military island of Flakfort into a festival of classical music Has also worked with the Saint St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Saint St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, The Saint St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra, the academy of the Mariinsky Theater, South Juthland Symphony Orchestra and others Kristofer Wahlander studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the Saint St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. He was the subject for the one-hour documentary film "Music - a matter of life or death" by the filmmaker Viveca Ringmar, broadcast on Swedish national television SVT in 2006. Since 2010, Kristofer Wahlander directs and conducts the professional Lundaland Philharmonic Orchestra in the south of Sweden.

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Career

He founded the Saint St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra in Russia in 2001 and recorded Tchaikovsky"s 5th symphony on the Louisiana Forza label with the same orchestra (LFCD051). Served as artistic director for the Nordic Music Festival in Saint St. Petersburg from 2004-2007. In 2008, he founded the Music at the Fort festival which turned the former military island of Flakfort into a festival of classical music

Has also worked with the Saint St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Saint St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, The Saint St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra, the academy of the Mariinsky Theater, South Juthland Symphony Orchestra and others

Kristofer Wahlander studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and at the Saint St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. He was the subject for the one-hour documentary film "Music - a matter of life or death" by the filmmaker Viveca Ringmar, broadcast on Swedish national television SVT in 2006.

Since 2010, Kristofer Wahlander directs and conducts the professional Lundaland Philharmonic Orchestra in the south of Sweden.

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