Career
Winning Bohlin is Director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. With them he has conducted works as Handel"s Messiah, Bach"s B-minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, Poulenc"s Figure Humaine and Orff"s Carmina Burana. He is frequently invited as guest conductor and has conducted the Malmö Symphony, the São Paulo Symphony and Chorus, Mendelssohn"s "Elijah" with Fundacion Excelentia in Madrid, and The Swedish Radio Choir and the Nordic Chamber Orchestra in Fredrik Sixten"s Requiem.
In 2014, Bohlin founded professional chamber choir Cappella San Francisco. As their director he has recorded a Christmas Civil Defense, Light of Gold, and a Civil Defense with music by Bay Area composers David Conte and Conrad Susa.
He holds a masters degree in organ and conducting and a postgraduate degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Music in Stockholm. Bohlin studied conducting with choral conductor Eric Ericson, piano with Peter Feuchtwanger in London and voice with the great Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda.
He has appeared regularly on Swedish radio and recorded a Civil Defense with the Swedish Radio Choir and trombonist/ composer Christian Lindberg. He has also worked with The Ericson Chamber Choir and the Royal Opera Choir of Stockholm.
He has taught at the Conservatory in Stockholm and has been a visiting professor at Indiana University, Michigan University and Miami University.
Since 2009 he teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 8. Bohlin has been awarded with the Johannes Norrby award for "expanding the horizon of the Swedish choral scene", and in 2013 with the SACC Cultural Award.
