Joseph Swensen @SwensenJoseph

Nothing beats Mahler 9 conducting the most exciting and fascinating orchestra on EARTH! Really!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings from one of my favorite places on Earth, Wroclaw, Poland where my glorious Leopoldinum Orchestra and NFM Choir joined me in an extraordinary performance of Haydn 7 Last Words (which we dedicated to the people of Ukraine.)

One of the most meaningful and memorable experiences of my professional life was made possible by the gorgeous and insane Berg Chamber Concerto with my beloved Scottish Chamber Orchestra and dearest friends Kolja Blacher and Roman Rabinovich. Thank you all so much

Joseph Swensen will be on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 17:00 UK time, you can listen online at bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Greetings from Granada! This is the view from my apartment balcony of the 13th century moorish palace, The Alahambra! What a magical place even after returning annually for 20 years! (But here’s the secret: The orchestra here is AT LEAST as beautiful as the city itself!!!)

Sending JOY from beautiful Porto! Sibelius and Grieg in one of the world's most iconic concert halls and with my glorious British first desk of Violins (Martyn Jackson and Jenny Sacha)

Like my Leopoldinum Orchestra, Wroclaw is one of Europe’s best kept secrets. Such a beautiful city!

The view this morning of our wonderful concert hall from the balcony of my place in Wroclaw.  Last nights Leopoldinum Orchestra’s 9/11 memorial concert (Shostakovich Symphony #14) was UNFORGETTABLE! Thank you all! What a way to start the season!

Greetings from gorgeous Wroclaw here with my dear friend Kolja Blacher who played a magical Prokofiev 2 with me and the amazing Leopoldinum Orchestra. (The first time Koljya and I made music together was back in 1979!!…Schubert C major Quintet❤️)

Greetings from outside the Estonia Concert Hall where the National Orchestra and I just had an absolutely gorgeous Schumann 1 together. “Spring” is in the air!.....and as you see, the big beard is GONE FOREVER

Violinist Tom Bowes and I had a fab time with the lovely BBC National Orchestra of Wales last week. Eleanor Alberga’s 2 Concertos, my new Nielsen orchestration “Four Movements for Orchestra” and lots more! The broadcast is still available on the BBC Website if you're curious!

My concerts in Granada were cancelled just hours before the first performance due to a positive Corona test in the orchestra. Loved the rehearsals! Two free weeks on the Med now before I go to the BBC. Making tremendous progress on a big new tone poem called “Song of Infinity”!

WISHING YOU ALL HAPPY HOLIDAYS and a FANTASTIC 2021! 🥳 This photo from a 1968 New Year celebration concert in NYC was my first experience as Concertmaster of an orchestra. (My beloved first violin teacher Shirley Givens is seen behind me helping out!)

Alter lovely weeks in Mulhouse and Barcelona, I send Greetings from atop a Cornwall Cliff! Came here to write music...very inspiring place...rewrote that insane and UNPLAYABLE Cadenza for SAGA (Cello Concerto)... still quite difficult however... (sorry!😊).

Just had a week with one of the most WONDERFUL orchestras I’ve ever made music with! Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse!!!! (Near Basel and Freiburg) Here celebrating with brilliant Trumpet soloist and old friend Marc Geujon

Hello All My new Barcelona Apartment is on this gorgeous little street!!!! (Dont worry Vicki and I are still together❤️) Love to all Rage against the Virus!😊🥊