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Norrlands Nations Kammarkör, usually Norrlandskören, is the student nation Norrlands nation's chamber choir in Uppsala.

History
The choir was founded in 1957 by the nation's conductor Folke Bohlin, with Eric Ericson as artistic director, as part of an ambitious project called Norrland's nation's music activities. The music activities also included instrumental music and was open to singers and musicians from all student nations in Uppsala. The purely instrumental part, the Norrland Orchestra, with Anders Jansson as the first conductor, only left the nation in 1980 and became today's Uppsala Chamber Strings. The Norrlands Nations Kammarkör was, at the time of its foundation, the only existing mixed student choir in Uppsala. A majority of the choir's members left the nation already in 1964 and changed its name to the Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir. This happened after Norrlandskören's participation in the major international choir competition in Llangollen in Wales, where the choir won the award "Choir of the year". The choir was then restarted directly by the nation's Song Leader, Ingemar Braennstroem, with the main focus on the nation's own members.

In 2019, led by Francesco Acquista, the choir won the ''7th Int. Anton Bruckner Choir Competition ''. In the Mixed Choir category the result was gold level IV and category win, in Sacred Music gold level V and category win, the choir also won the Grand Prix in the competition against several other category winners.

In 2023, led by Francesco Acquista, the choir won the title of Champions of the World Choir Games in the Mixed Chamber Choirs category in Gangneung, South Korea.

Activities
Apart from a year of rest, 1970, the choir has had continuous activity. Membership has varied greatly over the years, from around 20 in the first half of the 1970s to over 130 in the early 1980s. Today, the choir has around 45 members and sings at the nation's major festivals, as well as giving concerts for the public every term. Every year since its inception in 1978, the Norrlands Nations Kammarkör has participated in the Nation's Choir Festival, which is shared by all Uppsala's nation choirs.

Conductors
Conductors over the years have been:


 * Eric Ericson
 * Folke Bohlin
 * Dan-Olof Stenlund
 * Ingemar Braennstroem
 * Hans Nyberg
 * Leif Jonsson
 * Margaretha Thalén
 * Ann-Mari Lind
 * Barbro Björklund
 * Mårten Jansson
 * Lennart Bergbom
 * Maria Edman
 * Cecilia Martin-Löf
 * Tove Waldetoft
 * Florian Benfer
 * Malin Strömdahl
 * Francesco Acquista