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Choir brings with it on tour beautiful music and,
with its presence, amessage of international peace,
brotherhood, and the vitality of life itself. This is
why UNESCO has named the project “Artists for
Peace” in honour of its social and artistic mission.
The diversity of the World Youth Choir repertoire
reflects the cultural diversity of its members. Over
the past 23 years, the choir has had the privilege
of performing beneath the baton of a number of
world renowned conductors. Its annual sessions
have thus far taken the choir to more than 30
countries around the globe, including 16 European
countries, South Africa, the Far East, the USA,
Canada and Latin America. The choir performed
at the Olympic Gala in Barcelona in 1992, at the
opening ceremonies of the Olympic Equestrian
Games in Hong Kong in 2008, and at the Nobel
Peace Prize award ceremony on 10 December
2011. On 11 December 2011, the choir performed
at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, the an-
nual musical tribute to the year’s Nobel Peace
Prize laureate.
Cecilia RydingerAlin – Conductor
Cecilia Rydinger Alin is a leading figure in Swed-
ish musical life. Her wide range of activities en-
compasses orchestral concerts, opera, choral con-
ducting and teaching, in addition to her regular
appearances with Swedish and other Scandinavian
symphony orchestras. She was the principal con-
ductor of the Wermland Opera in Karlstad from
1994 until 1998; she has also conducted opera
productions at the Royal Swedish Opera and at
Denmark’s Jyske Opera, as well as highly regard-
ed Wagner productions at the Dalhalla limestone
quarry.
From 1988 until 2009, Cecilia Rydinger Alin was
the artistic director of the mixed choir Allmänna
Sången. She won a number of international choral
competitions while at the helm of Allmänna Sån-
gen, including the 2005 European Choral Grand
Prix in Varna, Bulgaria. In the autumn of 2008
she was elected conductor and artistic director of
male-voice choir Orphei Drängar in Uppsala. Ms.
Rydinger Alin is Professor of Orchestral Conduct-
ing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm,
and during the 2012-2013 academic year she will
serve as deputy Principal at the Royal College of
Music.
Cecilia Rydinger Alin has been a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Music since 2004.
She was awarded the medal ‘Litteriset Artibus’
by King Carl Gustaf XVI for her contribution to
Swedish musical life in 2005, and she received the
Swedish Choral Society’s Choral Conductor of the
Year award in 2009.