About

Joachim Saxenborn is an internationally experienced conductor and baritone from Sweden, educated at the Musikhochschule für Musik in Wien.

 

He is the founder and artistic director of Saxenborn Singers – an innovative choir with emphasis on the twentieth-century and contemporary music.

 

He has performed at several international festivals such as Lund International choir festival and Malmö Sommarscen in Sweden, Wienerbezirkfestwochen in Austria, Festival Csillags Zene in Hungary, Gracelands festival in Ireland, and Festival Alfonso Ortíz Tirado in Mexico. 
Mr. Saxenborn has also been invited to perform at the Swedish Embassy and Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and Hungary. He has appeared on radio and television.

 

He has collaborated with the german performance-artist Ulla von Brandenburg as an arranger and conductor, which resulted in the work and film, “Chorspiel”, and recently he has initiated a collaboration with the swedish composer and sound artist, Stefan Klaverdal.
 

He is also the leader of Tonoptimisterna – a choir which developed out of a choral program involving hundreds of singers, with the purpose to spread knowledge of choral singing in his country.

 

Mr.Saxenborn is a sought after pedagog.