The young Finnish conductor Emilia Hoving will lead the orchestra at the Nobel celebrations in Stockholm. Hoving is especially happy about the commissioned work dedicated to the Nobel Prize winners of the corona years 2020-21.
STOCKHOLM Emilia Hoving is a 28-year-old Finnish conductor whose career is on the rise.
Still, the invitation to conduct Stockholm’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony came as a surprise.
– This is a very different occasion than the concerts I usually do, and I think I will definitely remember this always.
– The situation when I got the invitation asking if I would like to lead in this ceremony, it was quite an unreal feeling. That wow! After all, the Nobel Prize celebration is precisely a large, worldwide celebration. It is truly a great honor to be part of this special celebration.
Hoving suspects that the orchestra has had a hand in the choice of conductor. Hoving has conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra before and appreciates it.
Nobel celebrations are always shrouded in mystery, and even Emilia Hoving is not allowed to talk about, for example, the songs that will be presented at the award ceremony.
Custom work makes me happy
However, it has been reported in advance about the commissioned work that the Nobel Foundation has ordered in honor of the Nobel laureates of the corona years 2020-21. Then the corona restrictions prevented big celebrations. They have now been invited to Stockholm, and that’s why no fewer than 37 Nobel laureates will be present in Stockholm on Saturday.
The commissioned work is by a Swedish composer By Andrea Tarrod composition Laus Canticum or praise or hymn.
Conducting its first performance is particularly wonderful of Hoving.
– It’s very fanfare-like to me, it has exactly this kind of festive feeling. Ceremonial, that’s how I’d describe it.
Values his education
After the Nobel celebrations, Hoving has scheduled concerts in various parts of Europe. In March, he became a manager for the first time in Australia.
The question about the Finnish conductor prodigy makes Hoving laugh sincerely. He doesn’t consider himself to be part of a miracle, but emphasizes that Aalto University’s conducting education is only of an extremely high standard, both in terms of teachers and resources.
According to Hoving, the music world has become more equal and she herself has not experienced discrimination, but she knows that many other female conductors have.
He mentions, for example, conductors as role models Susanna Mälkin, Anna-Maria Helsinki and Eve Ollikainen. But he adds that role models are not only female cellists, but also many teachers at the Sibelius Academy.
Pääbo and Arnaux featured the most
Among this year’s Nobel laureates, the Swedes have been featured the most in advance Svante Pääbo and French Annie Arnaux.
Pääbo received the Nobel Prize in medicine and physics from his evolutionary studies (you switch to another service). This week, Pääbo told SVT’s evening news with common sense how each of us still has a small part of the Neanderthal person in our inheritance and it has been noticed that it affects, for example, how Corona has manifested itself in different people.
Pääbo is already a “second-generation Nobelist”, because his father Sune Bergström received the same award in 1982.
Nobel prizes are awarded by the King of Sweden Charles XVI Gustav and the royal family will attend both the awards ceremony and the gala dinners, which are traditionally held in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall.
Only on Saturday will it be decided whether the crown princess will also be seen at the festivities Victoriabecause he has had a cold this week.