ABOUT MOGENS DAHL CHAMBER CHOIR
Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir is a professional chamber choir based in Copenhagen. It is one of Scandinavia’s leading vocal ensembles and was founded by conductor Mogens Dahl in 2005. The choir comprises a core group of around 40 professional singers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
Rooted in the Nordic a cappella tradition, the choir is dedicated to performing both classical choral repertoire and newly composed works, while also engaging in interdisciplinary artistic collaborations. The ensemble is renowned for its distinctive Nordic sound, international outlook, and ambition to shape the future of vocal music through concerts, tours, and recordings.
NORDIC CHORAL SOUND AND NEW MUSIC
Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir is actively engaged in developing and renewing Nordic vocal music through commissioned works, world premieres, and artistic collaborations across genres and national borders.
Over the years, the ensemble has worked with a number of the most distinguished composers of our time. It enjoyed a particularly close relationship with the Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström, who served as the choir’s Composer in Residence until his death in 2019. He dedicated several major works to the ensemble. Today, this tradition continues through the choir’s collaboration with the Swedish composer Per Gunnar Petersson.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Other collaborators include the renowned period-instrument orchestra Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, the vocal ensemble The King's Singers, and jazz trombonist Nils Landgren, reflecting the ensemble’s artistic versatility and international outlook.
In Denmark, the choir performs regularly at events such as the Golden Days Festival and has sung the opening concert of The Copenhagen Light Festival every year since 2023. In addition, for the past ten years the choir has enjoyed a close collaboration with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, presenting annual performances of Messiah at Holmens Church in Copenhagen.
MOGENS DAHL - CONDUCTOR AND MUSICAL INNOVATOR
Since 2005, Mogens Dahl has served as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir. Drawing on his studies at the Department of Musicology at Aarhus University and the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, as well as further studies with distinguished conductors including Eric Ericson and Jorma Panula, he has built an ensemble that is now regarded as one of Scandinavia’s leading vocal groups.
In 2005, he also founded Mogens Dahl Concert Hall with the ambition of creating a venue where quality, aesthetics, and culture take centre stage. Each year, the concert hall presents around ten concerts featuring classical chamber music and vocal music, offering audiences the opportunity to experience internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles in the unique and intimate surroundings of Islands Brygge in Copenhagen.