Ragnar Bohlin is currently Director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. He holds a master’s degree in organ and conducting and a postgraduate degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Stockholm. Bohlin studied with the legendary choir director Eric Ericson and studied piano with Peter Feuchtwanger in London on a British Council scholarship. He studied singing with the great Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda and has also appeared as an oratory tenor. With his Swedish choirs, Bohlin has won numerous prizes in international competitions. He has appeared regularly on Swedish radio with the Swedish Radio Choir and has also worked with The Ericson Chamber Choir and the Opera Choir of Stockholm. He has taught at the Conservatory in Stockholm and has been a visiting professor at Indiana University. In October 2008 he made a CD recording with the Swedish Radio Choir and in 2010 he will tour the U.S. with the same choir. Bohlin has been awarded with the prestigious Johannes Norrby-medalion for expanding the frontiers of Swedish choral music making.
