The Malmö Academic Choir and Orchestra will present a free concert of Scandinavian music at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 23, in Ford Hall.
On a North American tour from Toronto to New York, the group will also perform at the Ithaca Festival. Conductor Daniel Hansson will be joined by tenor soloist Joachim Bäckström.
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Since 2000, the members of the Malmö Academic Choir and Orchestra have been leading representatives of Malmö University. They perform at ceremonies and annual events at the university. They also occupy a natural and important place in Malmö's cultural calendar with their annual concert series.
The group has performed in festivals and on tours abroad in Brazil, Germany, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and China. Last summer they visited Portugal on invitation from the Gulbenkian Foundation to play at the Leiria International Music festival, the Evora Music Festival, and in Lagoa, Lagos, and Faro. This is their first tour to North America.
Malmö University was founded in 1998 and is now Sweden's eighth-largest university for undergraduate studies. Located in the center of Malmö at Universitetsholmen, the university has played a central role in the transformation of Malmö from industrial town to a center of learning. Malmö University strives to be a university open to all -- a university structured to cope with the ever-changing job market through a multidisciplinary approach that crosses traditional school and faculty boundaries.
