Katarina Karnéus was educated at Trinity College of Music and the National Opera Studio in London. She has performed on the world’s largest opera and concert stages and has been engaged with the Gothenburg Opera since 2012. In 2018, Katarina Karnéus was appointed court singer.
She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, she has performed at venues including Wigmore Hall in London, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, at royal events at Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street, and at several of HM Queen Silvia’s Childhood Concerts and the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 2010.
Her recordings include songs by Sibelius, Grieg, R. Strauss, and Mahler, orchestral songs by Szymanowski with Simon Rattle, and orchestral songs by Mahler with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki. On DVD, she has recorded the role of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with Nina Stemme as Isolde.
In 2010, Karnéus won two Grammys for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and in 2015, she received the medal Litteris et Artibus from H.M. The King of Sweden.
Frontside has existed since 2019 and is largely driven by volunteer efforts, but we are highly dependent on additional financial sponsors and fundings. All contributions are used to engage fantastic musicians, rents of venues and all other things that make the festival a magical experience.
Welcome as a member of the Frontside Chamber Music Association.
As a member, you will continuously receive our newsletters and advance information about tickets.
If you wish to donate some extra money, it would be greatly appreciated! You will then belong to our Tone-donating members and will continuously receive our newsletters and advance information about tickets, as well as be offered a glass of sparkling wine in a unique meeting with our artists during the festival days.
If you wish to sponsor the festival with larger amounts, we are extremely grateful. You will continuously receive our newsletters and advance information about tickets, as well as be offered a glass of sparkling wine in a unique meeting with our artists during the festival days, and your name will be published (upon agreement) on our website.
Our membership register contains information about names and addresses, in some cases also phone numbers and/or email addresses. The register is used only for sending out membership information. The association will not sell or otherwise share personal information with any other party. Upon leaving the association, the information will be deleted and will only remain in the records that we are required to keep for seven years according to accounting laws. For further information or if you wish to be removed from the register, please contact our treasurer, Catrin Bernsro: catrin@bernsro.se
