VOCAL ENSEMBLE

CONDUCTOR ERIK WESTBERG

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THE VOCAL ENSEMBLE

The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble was formed in 1993 and consists of 16–20 singers. The members of the Ensemble work as soloists, church musicians and music teachers and come from northern Sweden and Finland. The Ensemble has commissioned and premiered about 70 works by composers such as Gunnar Eriksson, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Susanna Lindmark, Jan Sandström, Sven-David Sandström, Carl Unander Scharin and Arvo Pärt.

The choir's song Across the Bridge of Hope with the ensemble opened the peace message and was seen by more than 500 million TV viewers around the world.

Several recordings have been made in collaboration with Swedish Radio and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The ensemble is represented on about twenty phonograms on Opus3, Naxos and Studio Acusticum Records.

The composer portrait Choral Works with music by Staffan Storm, was published in 2025.

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The Erik Westberg's vocalensembles meeting with the artist / composer Frode Fjellheim makes me think "more, more, more." The Sami artist - who made the success of the festival Pitepeople together with, among others, Katarina Barruk - participates with all three works and it is a joy to hear His marvelous natural splendor meets the finesse of the vocalensemble, suggestive and powerful are no exaggeration words for what we get to hear when chanting chorus floats forward over Daniel Saur's frame drum and Fjellheim's sleepy synonyms in "A sister from the north". that this composer delivers music to Disney is fully logical.

Anders Sandlund Piteå-tidningen

On all previous records that I have heard with the Swedish Erik Westberg's vocal ensemble, I have always been impressed by the healthy sound, the statute of the voices and the purity of the presentation of the mighty demanding repertoire. The latest record, Chorus Gloriosus, with an even more niche repertoire than before - contemporary church music - is no exception. Occasionally, the choir has a more obscure role than before (in favor of the organ and the soloists), but everything that is sung is done with impressive high quality and the selected pieces consistently have a high standard.

Wilhelm Kvist HBL
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