Niklas Willén

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Niklas Willén Born 1961 in Stockholm. He studied conducting and composition at the Royal College of Music, where his conducting teachers were Professor Jorma Panula and Kjell Ingebretsen and his composition tutors were Ingvar Karkoff and Daniel Börtz.

Niklas Willén has served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Sundsvall Chamber Orchestra and Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester. Willén has worked with major orchestras and operahouses in Scandinavia, the rest of Europe and USA. He has recorded cd:s for Naxos, BIS and Hyperion.