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The Swedish soprano, Sofia Niklasson, was born and lived her first ten years of life in Uppsala. Two church musicians parents made the music from the beginning a natural part of her life. The family then moved to Kalmar and in 1995 to Växjö where she shea was student in the science program at Växjö Katedralskola (Växjö Cathedral School) in 1997. During high school she studied singing with Lawrence Johnson and piano with Boiana Müller. In the autumn of 1997, she began studying at Vadstena Folkhögskola's musical line with piano as a major. Anders Peterson and Ingrid Haking Raaby were teachers in piano playing and interpretation respectively. The emphasis during the studies there was romance accompaniment. She also had singing lessons during the two years in Vadstena, with Karin Westberg.
In the autumn of 1999, Sofia Niklasson started her studies at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (Royal College of Music in Stockholm), when she entered the piano pedagogy education with Rolf Lindblom as a piano teacher. From the very beginning she chose to put all optional points on singing lessons, among others with Susanne Rydén and Britta Sundberg and the singing came to have more and more space, now also solistically after many years in various choirs, all from the parents' children's choirs to Allmänna Sången and Mikaeli Kammarkör. In the spring of 2004, she finished her education and since then she has been freelance especially as a soprano soloist and chorister but also as accompanist and piano educator, albeit to a lesser and lesser extent.
Sofia Niklasson has been consulted as a soloist in Sweden's Radio P2 and at concerts around the country. It is Baroque music and contemporary music that lies most warmly to her, but other genres also occur. She is often used as a soloist in the performance of the usual church musical works, such as W.A. Mozart's Requeim, J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) and George Frideric Handel's Messiah, but also in the performance of newly written works, such as the spring of 2014, when Sven-David Sandström's Matteuspassion was performed at the Berlin Philharmonie. She was then a soprano in the Evangelistkvartetten who had a very prominent role in the work. In the autumn of 2007, she sang the soprano part in Mattias Sköld's newly written Requiem, which was premiered by Mikaeli Kammarkör with Anders Eby as conductor. The work was also recorded on the album in the spring of 2009 and in December 2011 the same composer Juloratorium was performed, then with the soprano solo part written for hewra.
Sofia Niklasson has performed with orchestras such as REbaroque, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, Musica Vitae and Gävle Symfoniorkester. She regularly collaborates with Kroumata in Steve Reich's piece Drumming, which they performed in Reykjavik in the spring of 2011 and earlier in Paris and Rome. In the summer of 2009, she participated in the Confidencen's setting of Gluck's opera Orfeus and Eurydike under the direction of Arnold Östman and in the spring of 2006 she was one of the singers in the performance "Tusen år hos Gud- en sekund på jorden' (Thousand years with God - one second on earth). She has sung music by composer John Adams under his direction at the Concert Hall in autumn 2005.
In February 2012, Sofia Niklasson participated as guest artist at Ola Salo's concerts with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Berwaldhalle and with Gävle Symfoniorkester at Gävle Konserthus, where she among other things sang the solo part in a choir and orchestral work written by Ola Salo herself. On September 8, 2016, the CD was released with the Johannespassionen by Fredrik Sixten where she sang the three beautiful soprano aria. In autumn 2016 and spring 2017, she participates in the Folkoperans and Cirkus Cirkörs seting of Philip Glass's Satyagraha directed by Tilde Björfors.
Sofia Niklasson is also a dedicated ensemble singer and is a member of the Swedish Radio Choir (since 2010) and Svenska Vokalharmonin and has a past in Eric Ericson Chamber Choir. She also sings , J.S. Bach's cantatas with Stockholm Bachsällskap.
Her sisters Elin Skorup and Sara Niklasson are also singers and together they have the project "Tre systrar" (Three sisters) that they tour with in the summers. |
