Choral Art

As a conductor and artistic director, Lone Larsen has led numerous recordings and musical projects, each reflecting a unique artistic vision. This page presents a selection of significant works and collaborations – from inspiring community art projects to productions with professional choirs on the highest musical level.

  • Larsen is a highly energetic and focused conductor, acting as a force field that elevates and unites everyone in the room.

    — Review by Jürgen T. Widmer, Kirchenmusik-festival, Germany

  • It was clear that Lone Larsen controlled every tiny detail of this remarkable choir’s expression with her precise conducting and vivid facial expressions. Yet in this context, she had deliberately chosen not to make herself a central figure in the performance.

    — Review Tore Mortensen, Nordjyske Stiftstidende

  • …Lone Larsen is a genius conductor with grand, clear gestures that motivate every single tone... Her conducting is both powerful and liberal, and her impulses create room for each soloist to express themselves.

    — Review Rainer Wiese - GMünder Tagespost, Germany
    European Choral Music Festival, Schwäbisch - GMünd

Choral Art

The Calls

A choir performing on a dimly lit stage with red lighting, surrounded by a seated audience in a large hall. The choir members are standing in a line, some raising their arms.

The Calls is a collaboration between composer Niels Rosing-Schow, Canadian visual artist Brendan Fernandes, curator Catherine Lefebvre, designer Henrik Vibskov and conductor Lone Larsen.

In The Calls, the alluring calls of sirens from Greek mythology merge with the urgent sound of modern-day police sirens—partly inspired by the recent years' Black Lives Matter protests.

Niels Rosing-Schow's music is composed for DR Vokalensemblet and written for 18 individual vocal parts. The piece is structured as a series of sonic scenarios, where the singers move in different formations throughout the performance. The performers have certain freedom to shape parts of the piece themselves, including the ending, which takes the form of a collective improvisation.

This recording extracts from the piece with a total durata of approx. 24 min.

A group of performers in matching costumes and hats, holding music sheets on a stage with warm lighting, during a performance directed by Lone Larsen.
Five people wearing padded costumes and hats stand on a stage under blue lighting, with some holding music stands.

Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and VoNo

Since 2012, Lone has collaborated annually with the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and VoNo, engaging in projects where tradition meets innovation. Together, they explore new concert formats that blend historical authenticity with fresh artistic expressions, creating unique and including musical experiences for audiences.

Drottningholms Barockensemble
Lone Larsen

Community Art

"What Does Life Do to Us?" – A collaboration together with Fisksätra Museum that collected stories of migration and life in Sweden from residents of a marginalized area in Stockholm. The music and performance were built on their stories, with 30 participants taking part in the project alongside VoNo and professional musicians. Film by Josef Sjöblom.

In the project "Having a Voice" at Folkoperan in Stockholm participation and accessibility to the art form of opera were increased through choir singing and the opportunity was created for different voices and stories to be heard on the opera stage. This included the project "Disguised God," where Roma EU citizens and professional choir singers worked together on stage, and "Calling Home," where musicians from Syria shared their stories through music and song.

Music videos

Music videos created in collaboration with VoNo and the video artist Josef Sjöblom as a way to make newly composed choral music accessible to a wider audience.

Recordings

and broadcast

Discography


Footprint Records 2024.” I am like Many”
VoNo. Conductor: Lone Larsen

Euridice Records 2016” Miserere” and ”Requiem”
Composer: Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Platum Integrum, Vokal Nord. Conductor: Lone Larsen

 Songs of the Moment 2013.” Realm of Play- A Pentecost Oratorium”.
Composer: Kristian Skårhøj
Featured on soundtrack 4: Voces Nordicae. Conductor: Lone Larsen

Euridice Records 2012 ”Mannu”
Vokal Nord. Conductor: Lone Larsen

Footprint Records 2011 “The magic Paint Brush”
Composer: John Höybye
Voces Nordicae. Conductor: Lone Larsen

 Footprint Records 2011” What is Life?”
Voces Nordicae. Conductor: Lone Larsen

 Footprint Records 2006 “Time is Now”
Voces Nordicae. Conductor: Lone Larsen

 Footprint Records 2003 “Nordic Voices”
Voces Nordicae. Conductor: Lone Larsen

Radio

A Selection of Live Recordings and Interviews

2024 Swedish National Radio “A Winter´s Tale”
The Vocal Ensemble VoNo and Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble.
Conductor: Lone Larsen 

2024 German National Radio. “Earth Call” live-concert and interviews at Chor.com, Hannover, in "Konzert für Deutschlandfunk Kultur.”
The Vocal Ensemble VoNo.
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2023 Danish National Radio “The Calls”
The Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2023: Südwestrundfunk (SWR Germany) “Make Peace”
The Vocal Ensemble VoNo.
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2020: Swedish National Radio - Concert and interview. SR P2 Live.
The Swedish Radio Choir.
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2019 Swedish National Radio "The Mysteries of Christmas Night"
The Vocal Ensemble VoNo and Drottningholms Baroque Ensemble.
Conductor: Lone larsen

2019: Interview for the “Choir Podcast” – The Swedish Choral Association

2016: Swedish National Radion “Soundscape - The Music of the Voice” interview with conductor Lone Larsen

2016 Swedish National Radio “Classical morning – The Audience Wishing Concert”.
The Swedish Radio Choir
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2015 Ålands Radio and Television, Finland. Live recording - Katarina Chamber Music Festival, Voces Nordicae
Conductor: Lone Larsen

2014 “Christmas in Swedish National Radio”. Live concert
Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble and Voces Nordicae
Conductor: Lone Larsen.

2014: Swedish National Radio: Baltic Sea Festival. Music by Alice Tegnér.
Conductor: Lone Larsen.

2011: Live EBU broadcast (i.e., aired across Europe) in collaboration with Swedish National Radio.
Voces Nordicae
Conductor: Lone Larsen.

2009: BBC Radio – “The Choir” Interview and musical excerpts from a choir project in Jordan.
Voces Nordicae and Lone Larsen

2004: Danish National Radio “People and Music.” Personal interview with Lone Larsen by Henrik Thorngård