A Triumph to Exist

La Capella is a multi-faceted choir which boasts many different genres in its repertoire; it has worked with everything from complex women’s choral music to jazz, traditional classical music and Swedish folksongs.

The conductor, Karin Eklundh, has received her education in choral conducting and vocal pedagogy at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and she has developed La Capella’s repertoire to include folk music from other ethnic cultures as well as the Swedish contemporary music. Karin has been a choral conductor at the Uppsala Music School since 1996 and as a freelance, teaches courses in singing and conducting.

The choir has diverse concert activities that consist of both sacred and profane works. La Capella has done several recordings for the radio and TV and participated in choral singing competitions, both nationally and internationally, which has resulted in several prizes. The juries have praised La Capella for being “a skillful and interesting choir on a exceptionally high technical and musical level” which “combines beautiful choral singing, elegant presence quality and renewal in a stimulating way for the choral singing.” On this CD, La Capella sings Nordic choral music; we hear songs by many of our foremost Nordic composers and lyricists on 16 tracks, of which 3 are by Karin Rehnqvist.