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Adolf Fredrik’s
Adolf Fredrik’s Music School is located in the city centre of Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on choral music. There is a competitive admission based on audition in singing and musical ability. The school has two campuses (City
and Farsta) and three youth choirs of high international standard. Many professional musicians are alumni including internationally renowned popular singers, classical singers, actors/actresses, instrumentalists, conductors, composers, producers and vocal ensembles such as ‘The Real Group’.
The school has approximately 1100 students and 120 staff. Admission to Adolf Fredrik is based upon a singing audition. Each year 1,000 ten year olds audition to join the school and only 180 are selected. There are 36 classes from school years 4 – 9 and the classes consist of 30-31 students.
The school was established in 1939 on the initiative of
Hugo Hammarström (1891–1974) and offered the first music classes in Sweden, based on models such as King’s College, Cambridge England, Die Städtische Singschule, Augsburg, Germany, and the Copenhagen Boys Choir in Denmark.
The purpose was to give musically inclined pupils additional training in singing, sight-reading, choral singing and more. Adolf Fredrik’s is a song-and-chorus school with quality, breadth and a great reputation both in Sweden and all
over the world. The school conducts a music education programme at a high national and international level.
This means that the students, beyond the daily school
work, also participate in a developed music and concert performances, which extends well beyond the classroom.
Adolf Fredrik’s international work is expanding further and the school has established partnerships with music schools and music centres from around the world. The purpose of the international work is to build relationships and exchanges between students and teachers in different countries and thus promote greater understanding between different cultures. The ambition is to create meetings between students from different countries with music as the great unifying factor.
Each student belongs to a class-choir consisting of 30 to 60 students. Practices are held almost every school day, and each class-choir has a substantial concert program schedule (at churches and auditoriums and other venues). Additionally, the school has three official choirs, which represent the school in concerts and competitions: Adolf Fredrik’s Girls Choir, Boys Choir, and the mixed Chamber Choir. Membership in these choirs is based on auditions, held amongst the school’s students.
Students at the school will have sung in class choirs (often
a cappella) for 1200 hours by the time they graduate at age 16. Those who participate in one of the school’s competitive representation choirs and continue to a high school which also has emphasis in music, may accumulate 2000 hours of singing before university. This training takes place during the students’ most formative years.
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Barnsley Youth Choir Adolf Fredriks Concert Weekend 2016