We have a fantastic set of conductors and leaders for Side by Side 2024!
The list may be updated.
Ron started as one of El Sistema's violinists in his home country of Venezuela. Today, he is a household name in musical learning and travels around the world as a conductor and ambassador for El Sistema. In 2017 he was nominated for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. Ron is the mastermind behind the Dream Orchestra project and one of Side by Side's artistic advisers. In 2020 he was awarded Göran Lagervalls pedagogstipendium by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Birgitta is a choir director and song teacher in Gothenburg and teaches at the Academy of Music and Drama as well as Hvitfeldtska music high school, She is also the project manager of SKUR – Sweden's church choir association's youth choir. In 2016 she was named Sweden's Children and Youth Choir Leader of the Year and today she is a well received guest conductor throughout the country. Birgitta helped establish El Sistema in Sweden and is one of Side by Side's artistic advisers.
Emilia comes from Finland and has quickly made an international career. She has appeared with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic in Stockholm, the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the Iceland Symphony as well as with the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France. Emilia premiered "Bubblor" with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2023 and in 2024 we are happy to welcome her as conductor at Side by Side.
Marjolein has a double degree in flute and wind band conducting. She grew up in the southern Netherlands where there is a big tradition in wind band music, and she has worked a lot with youth orchestras. Marjolein is a flutist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and has attended Side by Side for several years as an instructor for the older participants. She has been a Side by Side conductor since 2020.
Terje is a violinist from Norway and since 2009 he is the first chair for Violin 2 in Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He is also the concertmaster in BAGS, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra's own
baroque ensemble. Terje has led WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA in their string orchestra repertoaire since Side by Side 2022.
Ida has worked at GöteborgsOperan since 2009. She is musical director in the Creative department and conductor for the Opera's Children and Youth Choirs, which consists of three choirs with members aged 9–25. Ida is trained in viola and choral conducting at Ljungskile Folk High School, Uppsala University and the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Marjolein has a double degree in flute and wind band conducting. She grew up in the southern Netherlands where there is a big tradition in wind band music, and she has worked a lot with youth orchestras. Marjolein is a flutist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and has attended Side by Side for several years as an instructor for the older participants. She has been a Side by Side conductor since 2020 and is the principal conductor at WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA.
Terje is a violinist from Norway and since 2009 he is the first chair for Violin 2 in Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. He is also the concertmaster in BAGS, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra's own
baroque ensemble. Terje has led WIND & STRING ORCHESTRA in their string orchestra repertoaire since Side by Side 2022.
Foto: Anna Hult
Ida has worked at GöteborgsOperan since 2009. She is musical director in the Creative department and conductor for the Opera's Children and Youth Choirs, which consists of three choirs with members aged 9–25. Ida is trained in viola and choral conducting at Ljungskile Folk High School, Uppsala University and the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Anders has double degrees in the recorder and a past in musical science. He has his musical home in medieval and renaissance music both as a musician and a sought-after teacher. In addition to the recorder, Anders also plays several other medieval instruments and is a member of the Medieval Ensemble Ambrosia.
Johannes is a professional musician, multi-instrumentalist and educator. He works cross-border with modern traditional music from the Balkans, Turkey and the Nordics, jazz, alternative pop and improvisational music. Johannes is in the bands Malmö Turbo, Spomenik and Trio Beynelmilel, and has been musical director of the World Wide Orchestra.
Photo: Lana Gumaa
Jenny is a freelance musician and national fiddler on Västgöta songs, and has a wide audience. She is active as a musician and educator, has done extensive school tours, worked as a theater musician and is visible on folk music stages around the country. Jenny also works with the youth courses Sjövikskursen and Västra låtwerkstan.
Photo: Tina Axelsson
Sten is a musician, composer, arranger, and folk and world music. He is passionate about integrating music from different cultures, with a special focus on music from Haiti. not the least through his band Simbi. Sten is the Artistic Leader of World Wide Orchestra. He was awarded the Swedish Planeta Prize Inspirator of the Year in 2021.
Jenny is a freelance musician and national fiddler on Västgöta songs, and has a wide audience. She is active as a musician and educator, has done extensive school tours, worked as a theater musician and is visible on folk music stages around the country. Jenny also works with the youth courses Sjövikskursen and Västra låtwerkstan.
Photo: Tina Axelsson
Magnus Pettersson
Magnus has solid experience as a music teacher, musician and music therapist in Sweden and abroad. He works with Angered School of the Arts and has been course leader at the music teacher program as well as a teacher in music didactics for lower ages at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Christel Weiner
Christel is a music teacher and music therapist. She works in Partille School of the Arts with choir and orchestra for students with special needs and also teaches music in the elementary and special-aid elementary schools. She likes using images, signs and colors as teaching-aids.
Yvonne took her organist degree in 1999 from Högskolan för scen och musik in Göteborg, where she is currently doing a master's degree in choir conducting She has a lot of experience with different boy's, girl's, and youth choirs and are currently working as an organist in Lerum Parish.
Christina has an education form Musikhögskolan i Göteborg. As part of her work as an organist in Varberg Parish she leads Boys` voice – Varberg's boy's choir – which recently recorded a CD, Christina has earlier worked with children and youth choirs in places like Hammarkullen in Göteborg, and in Onsala.
Måns and Maria work at City School of the Arts in Gothenburg and are also experienced freelance musicians and / -singers. They specialize in teaching song and music to the youngest children and focus a lot on engaging the participants with fun and rhythmic exercises.
Anna Ström
Lina Molander Ekström
Tobias Edvardson
Marie Fransson
Willy Wong
The leaders for BEGINNERS’ ORCHESTRA are all teachers at the Schools of the Arts in Gothenburg and established freelance musicians. Anna receives those who play brass instruments, those who play string instruments will meet Lina, Tobias or Marie; and the woodwinds will get acquainted with Willy.
Let us introduce this year's conductors and leaders
We have a fantastic set of conductors and leaders for this year's Side by Side!
Ron Davis Alvarez
Ron started as one of El Sistema's violinists in his home country of Venezuela. Today, he is a household name in musical learning and travels around the world as a conductor and ambassador for El Sistema. In 2017 he was nominated for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. Ron is the mastermind behind the Dream Orchestra project and one of Side by Side's artistic advisers. In 2020 he was awarded Göran Lagervalls pedagogstipendium by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin
Birgitta is active in Gothenburg, where she manages a comprehensive choir organisation for children and youths in Härlanda Parish. In 2016 she was named Sweden's Children's and Youth Choir Leader of the year and today she is a well received guest conductor throughout the country. Birgitta helped establish El Sistema in Sweden and is one of Side by Side's artistic advisers.
EMIL ELIASSON
Emil has in a short period of time established himself as one of the most exciting conductors of his generation. He has worked with large ensembles throughout the Nordics, like the Royal Philharmonics, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Nordic Chamber Orchestra. Emil has been awarded Kungliga Musikaliska Akademins Nationella Musikstipendium three years in a row. In 2015 he won the Crusell scholarship and in 2019 he was awarded one of Sweden's most prestigious music scholarships: Sixten Gemzéus stora musikstipendium.
Daniela Musca
Daniela was born in Rome and is a trained orchestra conductor. She has been hired by the Belgian Chamber Philharmonic, the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Opera och Frankfurt Museum Orchestra. In 2017 she was a semi finalist at Georg Solti Conducting Competition in Frankfurt and her interpretation of Eugen Onegin at Staatstheater Darmstadt (2017) was awarded the prize for best musical interpretation at Hessian Theatre Days.
Anders Renberg
Anders has double degrees in the recorder and a past in musical science. He has his musical home in medieval and renaissance music both as a musician and a sought-after teacher. In addition to the recorder, Anders also plays several other medieval instruments and is a member of the Medieval Ensemble Ambrosia.
Maria Goundorina
Maria is a trained choir conductor and has studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the University of Vienna, and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She is the leader of the Swedish Youth Choir (SVUK) as well as lead singer for Allmänna Sången, in addition to this she teaches the prestigious Adolf Fredrik's Music Classes in choral singing and lectures internationally. At the Vienna Competition for Young Choir Conductors, Maria was awarded the prize for "Best interpretation of a romantic work".
Let us introduce this year's conductors and leaders
We have a fantastic set of conductors and leaders for this year's Side by Side!
Ron Davis Alvarez
Ron started as one of El Sistema's violinists in his home country of Venezuela. Today, he is a household name in musical learning and travels around the world as a conductor and ambassador for El Sistema. In 2017 he was nominated for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. Ron is the mastermind behind the Dream Orchestra project and one of Side by Side's artistic advisers. In 2020 he was awarded Göran Lagervalls pedagogstipendium by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin
Birgitta is active in Gothenburg, where she manages a comprehensive choir organisation for children and youths in Härlanda Parish. In 2016 she was named Sweden's Children's and Youth Choir Leader of the year and today she is a well received guest conductor throughout the country. Birgitta helped establish El Sistema in Sweden and is one of Side by Side's artistic advisers.
Anders Renberg
Anders has double degrees in the recorder and a past in musical science. He has his musical home in medieval and renaissance music both as a musician and a sought-after teacher. In addition to the recorder, Anders also plays several other medieval instruments and is a member of the Medieval Ensemble Ambrosia.
Marjolein Vermeeren
Marjolein has a double degree in flute and wind band conducting. She grew up in the southern Netherlands where there is a big tradition in wind band music, and she has worked a lot with youth orchestras. Marjolein is a flutist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and has attended Side by Side for several years as an instructor and conductor for the older participants.
Sten is a musician, composer, arranger, and folk and world music. He is passionate about integrating music from different cultures, with a special focus on music from Haiti. not the least through his band Simbi. Sten is the Artistic Leader of World Wide Orchestra. He was awarded the Swedish Planeta Prize Inspirator of the Year in 2021.
Sofia is a violinist, teacher and head of the world music program at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. She loves enabling meetings between musicians and loves a good swing! Sofia can be seen in the swing collective Cats and Dinosaurs, the Balkan band Trio Katastrofa, and indie pop band Winhill/Losehill.
Conductors
Marjolein Vermeeren
Juan Carlos Maggiorani
Marjolein has a double degree in flute and wind band conducting. She grew up in the southern Netherlands where there is a big tradition in wind band music, and she has worked a lot with youth wind bands. Marjolein is a flutist in the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and has attended Side by Side for several years as an instructor for the oldest participants.
Juan is a violin specialist from Venezuela and Artistic Director at Orquestra Geração, a Sistema programme in Portugal. He was selected as a Rising Star by the European Concert Hall Organization in the 2014/2015 season and has a Master's degree in Performance and Education at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. As a conductor Juan has participated in many international youth projects. He has also been a violin instructor at Side by Side for several years..
Magnus Pettersson
Magnus has solid experience as a music teacher, musician and music therapist in Sweden and abroad. He works with Angered School of the Arts and has been course leader at the music teacher program as well as a teacher in music didactics for lower ages at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Let us introduce this year's conductors and leaders
We have a fantastic set of conductors and leaders for this year's Side by Side by El Sistema!
Here we introduce them one by one.
Ron Davis Alvarez
Ron started as one of El Sistema's violinists in his home country of Venezuela. Today, he is a household name in musical learning and travels around the world as a conductor and ambassador for El Sistema. In 2017 he was nominated for the prestigious Global Teacher Prize. Ron is the mastermind behind the Dream Orchestra project and one of Side by Side's artistic advisers. In 2020 he was awarded Göran Lagervalls pedagogstipendium by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music..
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin
Birgitta is active in Gothenburg, where she manages a comprehensive choir organisation for children and youths in Härlanda Parish. In 2016 she was named Sweden's Children's and Youth Choir Leader of the year and today she is a well received guest conductor throughout the country. Birgitta helped establish El Sistema in Sweden and is one of Side by Side's artistic advisers.
ANDERS RENBERG
Anders has double degrees in the recorder and a past in musical science. He has his musical home in medieval and renaissance music both as a musician and a sought-after teacher. In addition to the recorder, Anders also plays several other medieval instruments and is a member of the Medieval Ensemble Ambrosia.
SIMON PHIPPS
Simon is from England and has studied in Cambridge, London, Munich, and Manchester. He lives in Gothenburg and has won several international awards with the Swedish Chamber Choir. Simon is the artistic leader and conductor for the Gothenburg Symphony Youth Orchestra VÄGUS as well as the Fall Break Choir—in addition to this, he also does opera conducting at Läckö Castle each summer.
Anna Ström
Ronny Täck
Lina Molander Ekström
Carin Åkesson
Tobias Edvardson
Marie Fransson
Willy Wong
Caroline Lalanne
Emil Petterson
The leaders for BEGINNERS’ ORCHESTRA are all teachers at the Schools of the Arts in Gothenburg and established freelance musicians.
Anna & Ronny receive those who play brass instruments, those who play string instruments will meet Lina & Carin or Tobias & Marie; the woodwinds will get acquainted with Willy & Caroline; and the percussionists get to meet Emil.
Amanda Flodin
AMANDA FLODIN & TORE SUNESSON
Amanda is a mezzo soprano and together with her norm creative opera company Man Must Sing she has created works such as the chamber opera Akvarium. Together with Utomjordiska she created the show Witch, Bitch, Temptress,
Tore is a trained music teacher, an experienced pianist and a member of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Vocal Ensamble. Since 1990 he sings and tours with the Vocal Quartet VOX.
Willy Wong
Emma-Lina Grahn
Tobias Edvardson
BEGINNERS' ORCHESTRA
The four leaders of BEGINNERS 'ORCHESTRA are all culture school teachers in Gothenburg. Emma-Lina welcomes everyone who wants to play brass instruments, x will lead all children who wants to play percussion instruments, and those who will play stringed instruments will meet Tobias, and the wooden blowers will get acquainted with Willy.
Let us introduce this year's conductors and chorus masters
We have a fantastic set of conductors and chorus masters for this year's Side by Side by El Sistema!
Here we introduce them one by one.
ALEXANDER EINARSSON
ADVANCED CHOIR
Alexander is choirmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Choir and the Gothenburg Symphony Vocal Ensemble. At the international Grand Prix of choral singing in May 2015 Tours, France, made Alexander Einarsson festival’s director prize in memory of Arthur Oldham and in 2018 he was named choir conductor of the year by Föreningen Sveriges Körledare.
ANJA BIHLMAIER
ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
Anja kommer från Tyskland och har på kort tid etablerat sig som en respekterad symfoni- och operadirigent i Europa. Mellan 2015-2018 var hon 1:a kappelmästare och vice musikdirektör på Kassel Stadsteater, men har även hunnit med gästinspel hos bland annat Trondheims Symfoniorkester, Folkoperan i Wien och Göteborgsoperan.
Ron Davis Alvarez
UPPER INTERMEDIATE ORCHESTRA
INTERMEDIATE ORCHESTRA
BASIC ORCHESTRA
Ron is from Venezuela and one of El Sistema’s many talents. He started his career as a violinist and is now internationally active as conductor and ambassador of El Sistema. He is the artistic director of El Sistema Sweden and initiator of the attentive Dream Orchestra.. In 2017 he received the prestigious Global Teacher Prize.
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin
UPPER VOICES CHOIR
CHILDREN´S CHOIR
Birgitta is active in Gothenburg, where she manages a comprehensive choir organisation for children and youths. She was named Sweden's children's and youth choir leader of the year in 2016. Birgitta has been involved in the establishment of El Sistema in Sweden and is an artistic advisor for Side by Side.
Hanna Ohlson Nordh
PRE-ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
Hanna har en masterexamen i orkesterdirigering. Hon har varit gästdirigent för bland annat Norrköpings Symfoniorkester, Gävle Symfoniorkester och NorrlandsOperans Symfoniorkester, samt i Tyskland Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen och Philharmonische Kammerorchester Dresden.
ANDERS RENBERG
EARLY MUSIC
Anders har dubbla examina i blockflöjt och en bakgrund i musikvetenskap. Han har sin musikaliska hemvist i medeltids-och renässansmusik både som musiker och som efterfrågad lärare. Anders spelar förutom blockflöjter även flera andra medeltida instrument. och är en del av Medeltidsensemblen Ambrosia.
Birgitta Mannerström-Molin
BEGINNERS´ ORCHESTRA
Måns Carlsson & Elvira Wall
BEGINNERS’ CHOIR
Måns and Elvira are both singers and musicians. They work as culture school teachers with singing and rhythm for the youngest children. They like to sign many altogether and welcomes everyone to sing along with them at Side by Side this summer.
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Sten Källman & Erika Risinger
FOLK
Sten is a musician and composer, with a passion for folk and world music from different cultural backgrounds. Sten teaches folk and world music at the University of Gothenburg. Erika is musician, teacher and professional violinist. She has studied classical violin at the Conservatory of Music in Falun and at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen as well as world music at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.
Magnus Pettersson
OPEN CHOIR
Magnus har gedigen erfarenhet som musikhandledare, musiker och musikterapeut i Sverige och utomlands. Han arbetar med Angereds kulturskola, har varit kursledare på musikhandledar-utbildningen och lärare i musik-didaktik för lägre åldrar på Högskolan för scen och Musik.
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