Klara Ek

Klara Ek has a voice of remarkable clarity and beauty - qualities recognized by many of the world’s leading conductors and orchestras. Recent notable debuts include Die Schöpfung with Washington's National Symphony Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling, Bach’s Magnificat with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Ton Koopman, Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Christopher Hogwood, Mahler’s Symphonies Nos.2 and 4 with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, as well as The Creation with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, all under Bernard Haitink. She made her debuts with the NHK Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras under Vladimir Ashkenazy and has sung Handel’s Messiah with the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä. More recently she gave her first performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Hallé under Nikolaj Znaider.

This season she makes her debut with both the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (under music director Peter Oundjian) performing Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem and with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.4 (Andrés Orozco-Estrada). She also sings Die Jahreszeiten with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg (Adám Fischer); and returns to the Swedish Chamber Orchestra for Fauré’s Requiem (Thomas Dausgaard) and the Classical Opera Company for a recording of Mitridate, re di Ponto (Ian Page).