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He takes over from Sakari Oramo, who stepped down as chief conductor earlier
this year, having been in the role since 2008. Like Bancroft, Oramo also holds a
position at a BBC orchestra. He will continue as chief conductor of the BBC
Symphony Orchestra until the end of the BBC Proms season in 2023.
Ryan Bancroft conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Bancroft’s first concert with the orchestra will be the Nobel Prize Concert on
Wednesday 8 December, which will be available to watch on the Nobel Prize
YouTube channel. ‘In my inaugural concert as chief conductor we will perform the
prominent Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström’s seminal work, The High
Mass, for the first time in the orchestra’s history,’ says Bancroft.
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