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Georg Lidström Free Music

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Georg Lidström Free Music

Georg Lidström

Real name: Per Georg Erik Lidström

Swedish organist, conductor, musical director and choir conductor, born on 24 October 1952, born and raised in Stockholm.

He has a past as a church musician. During the years 1982-88, he studied at the Stockholm Academy of Music with Jorma Panula and Kjell Ingebretsen as well as choral conducting with Eric Ericson. After his degree, he has i.a. toured with the Riksteatern as an opera conductor and guest conducted at Norrlandsoperan in Umeå. He has also premiered some contemporary Swedish music, i.a. "The White Castle" by Sven David Sandström and a large cantata for the city of Norrköping's 600th anniversary.


Georg has also been leader of the Cantuskören in Stockholm, the Stockholm Chamber Choir and led concerts with the Stockholm Motet Choir. He has been the musical director of the Saltsjöbaden orchestra association and the Eskilstuna symphony orchestra and was the first guest conductor in Falun. In 2002 he conducted the Prokofiev Philharmonic in Ukraine and performed symphonies by Mahler and Sibelius.

During the years 2004-2007, Georg conducted all the performances at Opera på skäret - Sweden's largest opera festival, which is performed in a sawmill community outside Kopparberg by lake Ljusnaren. Among other things, La Traviata, Rigoletto and Aida were performed there. According to the reviews, Georg was regarded as an exceptional Verdi interpreter.

He worked as Täby Symfoniorkesters musical director since the fall of 1985. Through his contacts with both older and younger musicians and artists, he has also successfully participated in the more practical preparations for the Täby Symphony Orchestra's concerts.

He then worked with Södertälje symfoniorkester in the nineties and returned there in 2022.