Petter Sundkvist Chamber Music Master Class at the Liszt Academy

Dates and venues:

Monday, 23rd of March, 2026, 9-13, Room XXIII., Liszt tér Main building

Tuesday, 24th of March, 2026, 14-21, Room XXIII., Liszt tér Main building

Participation options & application:

Active participants:

Registrated chamber music groups of the Liszt Academy may apply with the members’ names, their instruments, and pieces to be performed at the master class. You can apply using the online form below (on the form, fill in the names in the first two blocks). If the applications are more than the number of classes, the Head of Department will choose the performing groups with the supervision of guest professor.

Application deadline: Friday, March 20, 2026, 12:00

Passive participants:

 The master class is open to all students of Liszt Academy and Bartók Conservatory as passive participants free of charge, with no prior registration. Others must register at detari.alexandra@zeneakademia.hu email address. 

Petter Sundkvist started in early years as a trumpeter in his father’s Wind Band. After studies in cello and piano he went on with conducting studies with Jorma Panula, Kjell Ingebretsen and Eric Ericsson at the Stockholm Royal College of Music. In 1993 he studied contemporary music with Peter Eötvös. In the 90s Sundkvist rapidly achieved a leading position on the Swedish musical scene and is today among the most sought after of Swedish conductors. He co-founded and served as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra, the contemporary music ensemble Norrbotten NEO and Piteå Chamber Opera, ensembles with which he has toured USA, Portugal and the Nordic Countries.

He was Principal Conductor of the chamber orchestra Musica Vitae until 2006, an orchestra with which he has toured Spain and the United States. He held position as First Guest Conductor with the Gavle Symphony Orchestra 2002-2007, and up until 2004 he had a similar position with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, where he collaborated on numerous CD-recordings.

Petter Sundkvist has created for himself a broad and eclectic range of repertoire and styles stretching from the great classics to the composers of the 21st century. He has conducted more than 100 debut performances of contemporary music and nearly 30 opera productions in a variety of venues including all the major Opera houses in Sweden. A regular guest with all the major Swedish orchestras, he has also appeared with major symphony orchestras throughout Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, Iceland, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Great Britain. With a background in his internationally acclaimed recordings of Kraus, Petter Sundkvist has gained a reputation as an expert in the performance of eighteenth and early nineteenth century music.

Among the artists Petter Sundkvist has collaborated throughout the years are Janine Jensen, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Peter Mattei, Anna Larsson, Truls Mørk, Nina Stemme, Ronald Bräutigam, Andreas Blau, Gordon Hunt, Martin Fröst, Karen Gomyo, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Christian Lindberg and Dame Evelyn Glennie.

His strong commitment to contemporary music has given opportunities to close collaborations and premiered works by many important composers. Among them are Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Anders Eliasson, Bent Sørensen, Ingvar Lidholm, Per Nørgård, David Felder and Jan Sandström.

In 2003, Petter Sundkvist was appointed Professor in Orchestra Conducting at the Luleå University of Technology – School of Music in Piteå. One of his first tasks was to be chairman of the workgroup that was formed at the University, to envision and realize Studio Acusticum – a high end concert hall and studio with great acoustics. Currently he is programme faculty director for the programmes on advanced level and examiner for classical instrumentalists.

Petter Sundkvist is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.