Music at LiU has three ensembles (three choirs) that hold about 20 concerts per year, individually, together or in collaboration with others (for example, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra). They consist of students, alumni and other singers and musicians who want to make high-level music under the guidance of professional conductors and join a collaboration and network that brings both joy and benefit to many. Entire ensembles, or parts of them, can be booked for entertainment at various events.
Jakob Grubbström is director musices. Rehearsals take place in Musicum at Campus Valla in Linköping. If you want to sing, you are welcome to contact us for a singing audition.
More than singing and music
For LiU students (and others), the actual performance of music is an opportunity to train in key competences, such as collaboration, leadership, communication and listening. Also, the work around an ensemble provides training in association activities and organisation.
For many, the choir means a break from studying where they can be part of a whole and focus on something completely different. Especially for those who move here from another place, the choir can be the context where they find new friends and network across the study disciplines. It is not uncommon for people to meet their special friend/life partner in one of our ensembles. You have fun, travel together and grow together here. You will also make valuable contacts for future placements and jobs.
The opportunity to sing in a choir attracts some, particularly international, students to LiU. For exchange students, it is in the choir they meet Swedish friends and learn about the culture here.
Another task that Music at LiU's choirs have is to raise the profile of LiU in society in places where LiU is otherwise not visible, for example through concerts. The ensembles also represent LiU when they are on tour, participate in competitions and are heard on recordings and seen in film clips.
A societal role
LiU plays an important societal role by having under its aegis the Linköping University Chamber Choir, which engages competent and experienced amateur musicians and professionals – both inside and outside LiU. LiU's collaboration with Linköping University Male Voice Choir and Linköping University Women's Choir also guarantees stability for a women's and a men's choir in Linköping. There are thus three choirs offering high-quality music experiences at a time when publicly funded support for music activities for non-professionals is declining.
Music at LiU is also an important employer for freelance musicians who are hired both as teachers and for concerts.
