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Music School
Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser 8AB
Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser 8AB consists of 61 singers who have been studying music, singing and performing together for 4-5 years. In May 2016 they attended in a national choral competition for children’s and youth choirs in which they gained the highest score and became the winners. The repertoire is sacred as well as secular and in October they performed the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré together with the other four classes in the eighth grade. In August 2015 Tony Margeta became their music teacher and conductor.
Reputation
A choir from the school won the BBC’s "Let the people
sing” choir competition in 2001 and became a Choir of the European Federation and Cultural Ambassador. The school is mentioned as one of the building blocks of The Swedish Choral Miracle. Singers.com called the school
“a distinguished institution of music, well known throughout the world” and the Barbershop Harmony Society called it “the most renowned choir school in Sweden”. Discogs said, "the school is one of the most internationally recognized children’s and youth choirs throughout the world.”
The Swedish Choral Miracle
The school was the first Music School of its kind in Sweden and has inspired scores of similar schools around the country, forming one of the building blocks of The Swedish Choral Miracle (the term is a well-known expression in the world of choral music, ever since the book with the same name by Richard Sparks was published).
In 2008 the school created a number of
classes with a focus on choral singing
and instrumental music, in addition to the
normal academic curriculum in 70 schools
around Sweden. At least 5% of the Swedish population are members of and sing in choirs weekly. In 1999 Per-Åke Byström and Bo Johansson published the Swedish language
book Tidernas körklang: en bok om Adolf Fredriks musikklasser, Stockholms musikgymnasium och mycket annat about the choral sound and tradition of Adolf Fredrik’s Music School and Stockholms Musikgymnasium.
Barnsley Youth Choir Adolf Fredriks Concert Weekend 2016 P7