Dan-Olof Stenlund

Dan -Olof Stenlund ( born October 25, 1937 in Skellefteå as Dan Olof Stenlund Bertil ) is a Swedish university professor and choral conductor.

Life and work

Dan -Olof Stenlund, was born in 1937 in Skellefteå, the son of a cantor Bertil Stenlund and his wife Esther Vikström.

He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, piano, organ, cello and vocals and graduated as a church musician, accompanist and music educator. Furthermore followed studies in conducting with Eric Ericson, Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache.

Stenlund took over the post of professor of choral conducting at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen at the age of 36 years. He is also a teacher of choral conducting at the Music Academy in Malmö, and a member of the Royal Academy of Music.

From 1961 to 1974, Dan -Olof Stenlund church musician in Engelbrektskyrkan in Stockholm.

As an internationally sought-after conductor and choir director taught Dan -Olof Stenlund at the State Academy of Music in Malmö and directs the local Chamber Choir, the Malmö Chamber Choir, beyond the Landesjugendchor Baden- Württemberg, where he repeatedly seeks dialogue with students and supports talented young musicians.

Awards

Conducting activities

• KFUM: Chamber Choir 1957-1974
• Sangesgruppe spiral Erna 1961-1965
• Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir 1961-1974
• KFUM Choir in Stockholm 1965-1974
• Malmö Chamber Choir 1975 -
• Malmö Symfonieorchester Choir 1975-1993