Kristofer Wåhlander is a Swedish conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

, born 12th November 1974 in Loddekopinge

Löddeköpinge

Löddeköpinge is the second-largest locality in Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 5,582 inhabitants as of 2005.Löddeköpinge is about 10 km southwest of the municipal seat Kävlinge and about 5 km from Barsebäck nuclear power plant....

 in southern Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. Founded the St. Petersburg Festival Orchestra in Russia

Russia

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 in 2001 and recorded Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony on the La Forza

La Forza

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 label with the same orchestra (LFCD051).

Served as artistic director

Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 for the Nordic Music Festival in St. Petersburg from 2004-2007.

In 2008 he founded the Music at the Fort festival which turned the former military island of Flakfort into a festival of classical music.

Has also worked with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra was formed in 1882 and is Russia's oldest symphony orchestra.It was initially known as the "Imperial Music Choir" and performed privately for the court of Alexander III of Russia. By the 1900s it had started to give public performances at the...

, the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra

Icelandic Symphony Orchestra

Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands is an orchestra based in Reykjavík, Iceland. The ISO is an autonomous public institution under the auspices of the Icelandic Ministry of Education...

, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the academy of the Mariinsky Theater and others.

Kristofer Wahlander studied at the Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester and is one of four conservatories associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music...

 in Manchester

Manchester

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 and at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia.

He was the subject for the one-hour documentary film

Documentary film

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 'Music - a matter of life or death' by the filmmaker Viveca Ringmar, broadcast on Swedish national television SVT

Sveriges Television

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in 2006.