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The Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala (UAK) will enter a new era with a new conductor starting autumn of 2023.
UAK has a tradition of renewal and has since its inception in 1957 taken on both the modern a cappella music as well as the early music and everything in between. The choir was initiated by Folke Bohlin and was the first mixed choir with a higher level of ambition in academic choral life in Uppsala – Allmänna Sången was then still a male choir.
During its first years the choir was led by the legendary Eric Ericson and after him other renowned conductors have been its artistic directors, in turn Dan-Olof Stenlund, Anders Eby, and Stefan Parkman. The latter will make his final season with UAK in the spring of 2023 after a very successful forty-year collaboration.
From autumn 2023, Rebecka Gustafsson will take over as conductor and artistic director of UAK. She is already a well-known name to the Uppsala audience as conductor of Västgöta Nations Male Choir Korgossarna since 2015, and as guest conductor of the Uppsala-based Verano Vokalensemble. Rebecka Gustafsson is a trained singing teacher at the Academy of Music in Örebro, has a bachelor's degree in choral conducting from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and has studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she received her master's degree in choral conducting in May 2019. Rebecka Gustafsson is based in Stockholm where she is employed as a choir leader at Immanuel Church.