User:Zebb2000/Adolf Fredrik's Youth Choir

Adolf Fredrik's Youth Choir is a co-educational choir, comprising singers from the age 16 to 25. The choir is part of the Adolf Fredrik’s Church parish and was founded in 2000 by Karin Bäckström, one of the parish’s organists and choral directors.

The singers have a thoroughbred background, involving a higher level of weekly music training than in other schools. At present, most of the members are studying music at music colleges in the Stockholm area.

The choir’s main role is to sing at parish services and concerts. During the last years they have made critically acclaimed performances of e.g. W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, Gloria by Vivaldi and Disguised god by Lars-Erik Larsson.

In 2006, the choir won a gold medal in the international choir competition in Preveza, Greece and in 2009 they received the Grand Prix award in Sopot, Poland. A much appreciated Lucia concert, called From Darkness into Light, is given anually in Adolf Fredrik’s Church. This has led to many opportunities for international performance, including Lucia concerts given at The European Union Conference in Prague in 2007, The Swedish-American Entrepeneurial Days in Stockholm in 2008 and in Westminster cathedral and the Swedish Embassy in Dublin and London the same year.

In december 2009, the choir released their first CD From Darkness into Light (Från mörker till ljus in Swedish) containing the music from the Lucia concert bearing the same name.