Svanholm Singers, conducted by Sofia Söderberg, is an extraordinary male voice chamber choir. Since its formation in 1998, the ensemble has established itself as one of the foremost actors on the Swedish choral scene; striving constantly to refine the artistic and musical expression.

During numerous tours and awards the ensemble has gained a reputation for performances characterized by captivating intensity, musical quality and originality, while making unique interpretations of classical music. The young voices and exact intonation of the singers in combination with the expressive conducting of Sofia Söderberg has become the trademark of Svanholm Singers.

The core of the repertoire consists of music from the Scandinavian and Baltic choir tradition, but at the same time the choir is striving to expand and develop the male choir repertoire. Therefore, Svanholm Singers, constantly commission and perform new music and they have worked with a great number of composers around the world, for example Tobias Broström, Christian Engquist and Daniel Hjort from Sweden, Knut Nystedt from Norway, Peter Bruun from Denmark, Blake Morgan (Voces8) from Great Britain, John Milne from USA and Arturo Salinas from Mexico. In addition to this, Sofia Söderberg and also the singers, write unique arrangements and compositions for the choir. Among the choir’s favourite composers is the deceased Estonian composer, Veljo Tormis, with whom the choir had a unique collaboration. This resulted in several joint tours and a recording where Tormis himself participates - Tormis: Works for Men’s Voices.

The list of successes grows long and includes prizes, awards and victories in several competitions, for example the Tolosa Choral Contest 2016 in Spain where the choir won both their categories. Svanholm Singers is constantly touring internationally and has done as many as 5 tours to Japan as well as a prestigious tour to Taiwan and China during the summer of 2017.

Sofia Söderberg studied singing, piano, organ and choral conducting at the Malmö Academy of Music and baroque cello at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Sofia has established herself as a distinguished Choral Conductor. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her conducting and her interpretations has been recognized with a number of honors all over the world.

Sofia has been working as Chorus Master at Malmö Opera, and as soloist and conductor at Skånes Dansteater, Teater Insite and Operaverkstan Malmö. Since 2001 Sofia is conductor and artistic director of the international known ensemble Svanholm Singers and in 2010 she was selected artist of the year at Lund Choral International Festival. In 2015 Sofia founded and conducted Malmö Live Vocal Ensemble and the same year she conducted Malmö Symphony Orchestra for the first time. In may 2017 she made her debut together with the Swedish Radio Choir conducting two concerts at Berwaldhallen in Stockholm and since april 2018 she is conductor and artistic director of the Danish Chamber Choir Camerata in Copenhagen.

Sofia is frequently writing music and arrangements for her choirs and her music has been published by Gehrmans and Bo Ejeby in Sweden and by Walton Music in USA. Among her cd-productions Tormis: Works for Men´s Voices is worth mentioning though it was appointed ”album of the year” by the prestigious magazine Gramophone.

2023 - Spain:

Concerts in Madrid & Ávila.

2023 - Scotland:

Invited by the University of Aberdeen for workshops and concerts.

2019 - Russia:

Moscow Easter Festival .

2018 - Finland:

Vaasa Choir Festivall.

2018 - Lithuania:

Open to the World by Bel Canto Choir Vilnius.

2017 - China:

Performance at The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

2017 - Taiwan:

Taipei International Choral Festival.

2017 - France:

Festival de la Voix, Chateauroux.

2013 - Japan:

12 concerts arranged by Min-On Concert Association.

2012 - France:

Polyfolia International Choir Festival.

2011 - France:

Six concerts in Provence arranged by Festival des Choeurs Lauréats.

2009 - Spain:

Ciclo de Música Sacra del Desierto de Las Palmas.

2007 - Faroe Islands:

North Atlantic Choral Festival.

2005 - Japan:

Eight concerts in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Himeji, Obihiro and more.

2004 - Czech Republic:

Alliance World Festival.

2004 - Japan:

16 concerts in Tokyo, Osaka, Sendai, Fukuoka and more.

2003 - Japan:

23 concerts arranged by Musik Leben.

2003 - Lithuania:

Participation in the Klaipeda Spring Festival.

2001 - Japan:

A two week tour sponsored by Swedish companies acting in Japan.

1998 - Slovenia/Hungary:

Summer tour.

2016 - Spain:

First prize in secular music and profane music and highest score in a single category at the 48th Tolosa Choral Contest.

2015 - Slovenia:

First prize in the equal voices category at the 13th International Choral Competition Gallus in Maribor.

2010 - Hungary:

First prize in the equal voices category; best performance of the compulsory piece; and conductor’s special prize at the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in Debrecen.

2007 - Estonia:

First prize in contemporary music and renaissance music at the 10th International Choir Festival in Tallin.

2006 - Italy:

First prize, best conducting and best performance of Rachmaninovs Shestopsalmiye at the Seghizzi International Choir Competition in Gorizia.

2005 - Finland:

First prize, best conducting and best performance of Madetoja’s De profundis at the Madetoja-festival in Lahti.

2002 - Poland:

First prize and best conducting at the Hora Cantavi in Suwalki.

1999 - Japan:

First prize at the Takarazuka International Choir Competition.

1998 - Sweden:

First prize at "Toner För Miljoner" in Stockholm.