Lyckå Chamber Music Festival 2026
An international festival in Blekinge, from June 28 to July 5. With music and people at the centre, the festival is aiming for its 43rd consecutive festival.
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Re-Creation revolves around creation, recreation, and innovation—drawing from the classics but also extending into cross-genre realms such as folk music and jazz/improvisational music.
Keywords: Life stages – change.
Mozart—the universal composer—is one of the sources of inspiration.
The Lyckå Chamber Music Festival – Blekinge International Festival is a festival that, with its profile and proven quality, serves as a musical flagship for Karlskrona and Blekinge
with vibrant programs—international guest performances, chamber music, symphony orchestra, classical, contemporary—all at a high international level.
The Lyckå Chamber Music Festival is one of Sweden’s oldest chamber music festivals.
A cultural achievement!
“It is important to promote this type of classical music and ensure it is accessible. There needs to be continuity in classical music events so they receive attention and to foster greater interest. It’s not just the music, but also reflections on art and culture that are so clearly linked to the Lyckå Chamber Music Festival—completely unique in Blekinge!
Program for venues in Karlskrona:
Monday, June 29: Music and Reflection—by the Sea
1:00 PM Båtsmanskasernen, Stumholmen, Karlskrona
Composer Torbjörn Nilsson and Berth Nilsson, the festival’s artistic director, reflect on music and creativity, and The Halifax Rättvik Trio takes you on a musical journey between Rättvik, Sweden, and Halifax, Canada.
Peter Rousu, guitar/bass, Jennifer Publicover, flutes, Stefan Ekedahl, cello/flutes/bagpipes
Monday, June 29: Dissonances – Fragments – Facets
7:00 p.m. Naval Museum, Karlskrona
Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, String Quartet No. 3 “Facets”
New work by Torbjörn Nilsson and My Desert, My Rose
Presented by the Malva Quartet
Tuesday, June 30 Thoughts by the Sea
1:00 p.m. The Sloop and Barge Shed, next to the Naval Museum, Karlskrona
What does music mean to us, and how can cultural associations span time and
become a source of comfort in a difficult situation here and now?
Author Niklas Rådström on words and music.
Tuesday, July 30 From Darkness to Light
9:00 PM Fredrikskyrkan, Karlskrona
Experience a unique organ concert celebrating light and warmth with organist Hans Davidsson,
dancers Natalie Ogonek and Gabriel Davidsson, and soprano Maria Forsström.
In collaboration with the Gothenburg International Organ Festival.
Wednesday, July 1 Lux aeterna – Mozart, the Divine
6:00 p.m. Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Requiem – transformation, sound, light, and movement, and a story by and featuring author Niklas Rådström.
Re-Creation Voices and Lyckå Re-Creation Orchestra. Berth Nilsson, conductor
Thursday, July 2: Thoughts by the Sea
1:00 p.m. The rowboat and barge shed, next to the Naval Museum, Karlskrona
This event explores the transformative and healing potential of art and the aesthetic experience.
Professor Max Liljefors brings together knowledge from art history and
philosophy with findings from medicine and neuroscience.
Thursday, July 2: Britten, Brahms, and Mozart – In the Flow of Life
7:00 p.m., Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Mozart’s wonderful Kegelstatt Trio, Britten’s “Lachrymae,” and Brahms’s Trio—masterpieces that combine divine beauty, rhythms, and harmonies, becoming an exploration of timelessness and reflection.
Re-Creation Chamber Music Group: Martin Johansson, clarinet; Ingegerd Kierkegaard, viola; Filip Lundberg, cello; Gunnel Lundberg, piano.
Saturday, July 4 Summer Music at Fredrikskyrkan
Saturday, July 4 Connecting Art!
7:00 p.m. Båtsmanskasernen, Stumholmen, Karlskrona
Music and Life via Life Drawing - crossover!
The flute quartet 40F meets visual artist Jenny Soep, a documentary artist and illustrator who visualizes live performances into dynamic images of movement, atmosphere, and energy. Music and art forms, creative technologies document live events on site, becoming vibrant images of spontaneous moments.
The encounter with the ensemble 40F takes on an extra dimension. A must-see!
Sunday, July 5: Mozart – Grand Jeté – The Great Leap!
6:00 PM, Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Arias that make the soul want to sing and a church filled with music from the opera Idomeneo—making you want to dance!
Lyckå Re-Creation Orchestra. Jennie Lomm, soprano. Berth Nilsson, conductor.
Subject to program changes.
For a detailed program and other venues in Blekinge, see the link below.
Tickets go on sale June 15.
Tickets are available online at www.lyckafestival.com (see link below) and at the Karlskrona Tourist Center.
Keywords: Life stages – change.
Mozart—the universal composer—is one of the sources of inspiration.
The Lyckå Chamber Music Festival – Blekinge International Festival is a festival that, with its profile and proven quality, serves as a musical flagship for Karlskrona and Blekinge
with vibrant programs—international guest performances, chamber music, symphony orchestra, classical, contemporary—all at a high international level.
The Lyckå Chamber Music Festival is one of Sweden’s oldest chamber music festivals.
A cultural achievement!
“It is important to promote this type of classical music and ensure it is accessible. There needs to be continuity in classical music events so they receive attention and to foster greater interest. It’s not just the music, but also reflections on art and culture that are so clearly linked to the Lyckå Chamber Music Festival—completely unique in Blekinge!
Program for venues in Karlskrona:
Monday, June 29: Music and Reflection—by the Sea
1:00 PM Båtsmanskasernen, Stumholmen, Karlskrona
Composer Torbjörn Nilsson and Berth Nilsson, the festival’s artistic director, reflect on music and creativity, and The Halifax Rättvik Trio takes you on a musical journey between Rättvik, Sweden, and Halifax, Canada.
Peter Rousu, guitar/bass, Jennifer Publicover, flutes, Stefan Ekedahl, cello/flutes/bagpipes
Monday, June 29: Dissonances – Fragments – Facets
7:00 p.m. Naval Museum, Karlskrona
Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, String Quartet No. 3 “Facets”
New work by Torbjörn Nilsson and My Desert, My Rose
Presented by the Malva Quartet
Tuesday, June 30 Thoughts by the Sea
1:00 p.m. The Sloop and Barge Shed, next to the Naval Museum, Karlskrona
What does music mean to us, and how can cultural associations span time and
become a source of comfort in a difficult situation here and now?
Author Niklas Rådström on words and music.
Tuesday, July 30 From Darkness to Light
9:00 PM Fredrikskyrkan, Karlskrona
Experience a unique organ concert celebrating light and warmth with organist Hans Davidsson,
dancers Natalie Ogonek and Gabriel Davidsson, and soprano Maria Forsström.
In collaboration with the Gothenburg International Organ Festival.
Wednesday, July 1 Lux aeterna – Mozart, the Divine
6:00 p.m. Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Requiem – transformation, sound, light, and movement, and a story by and featuring author Niklas Rådström.
Re-Creation Voices and Lyckå Re-Creation Orchestra. Berth Nilsson, conductor
Thursday, July 2: Thoughts by the Sea
1:00 p.m. The rowboat and barge shed, next to the Naval Museum, Karlskrona
This event explores the transformative and healing potential of art and the aesthetic experience.
Professor Max Liljefors brings together knowledge from art history and
philosophy with findings from medicine and neuroscience.
Thursday, July 2: Britten, Brahms, and Mozart – In the Flow of Life
7:00 p.m., Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Mozart’s wonderful Kegelstatt Trio, Britten’s “Lachrymae,” and Brahms’s Trio—masterpieces that combine divine beauty, rhythms, and harmonies, becoming an exploration of timelessness and reflection.
Re-Creation Chamber Music Group: Martin Johansson, clarinet; Ingegerd Kierkegaard, viola; Filip Lundberg, cello; Gunnel Lundberg, piano.
Saturday, July 4 Summer Music at Fredrikskyrkan
Saturday, July 4 Connecting Art!
7:00 p.m. Båtsmanskasernen, Stumholmen, Karlskrona
Music and Life via Life Drawing - crossover!
The flute quartet 40F meets visual artist Jenny Soep, a documentary artist and illustrator who visualizes live performances into dynamic images of movement, atmosphere, and energy. Music and art forms, creative technologies document live events on site, becoming vibrant images of spontaneous moments.
The encounter with the ensemble 40F takes on an extra dimension. A must-see!
Sunday, July 5: Mozart – Grand Jeté – The Great Leap!
6:00 PM, Lösens Church, Lyckeby
Arias that make the soul want to sing and a church filled with music from the opera Idomeneo—making you want to dance!
Lyckå Re-Creation Orchestra. Jennie Lomm, soprano. Berth Nilsson, conductor.
Subject to program changes.
For a detailed program and other venues in Blekinge, see the link below.
Tickets go on sale June 15.
Tickets are available online at www.lyckafestival.com (see link below) and at the Karlskrona Tourist Center.
Information
- Web page www.lyckafestival.com
- Bookings URL www.lyckafestival.com
- Event link https://www.lyckafestival.com/summer%25252520academy.html