Music in the Garden Festival

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  • Location: Botaniska trädgården The Orangery Linneanum's inner courtyard, Villavägen 6
  • Website
  • Organiser: Uppsala International Guitar Festival in collaboration with the Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala and a number of other partners.
  • Contact person: Mats Block
  • Kulturevenemang, Konsert

Series of concerts with classical music in the spirit of chamber music.

Music in the Garden offers a summery musical feast! Join us in experiencing surprises and exciting artists from the classical music sphere across the world. This year, the event takes place during three festival days.

Note: The programme is released during the spring of 2022.

Buy your tickets from the festival website at Tickster. Gates will open from 14.30 on each concert day.

Program (2022)

Wednesday 29 June

14:30–22:00 Photo exhibition 'Midsummer Magic', by Pattie Boyd och Henry Diltz.

16:00 Ellen Nisbeth, viola, & Marcin Tjernbäck, piano.

18:00 Victoria Birchner song & Julieta Lizzoli, piano, Argentina.

20:00 Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, & Christian Karlsen, cnductor.

Thursday 30 June

17:00 Gabriel Escudero, consert pianist, Cartagena, Spain

20:00 'Lycklig resa' – tribute to Jan Johansson with Jan Lundgren, Georg Riedel, Mattias Svensson & JELA String Quartet. Sweden.

Friday 1 July

17:00 Gitarrduo Siqueira Lima, guitar. Brasilian virtuosity!

20:00 Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, & Christian Karlsen, conductor.

Exercise – recreation – culture

Ride your bike to Linnaeus' Hammarby or wander in the cultural reserve there.Give Qi Gong, Yoga, Taiji or boules a try in the Botanical Garden.

Buy tickets for a theatre performance or concert. Enjoy art works, beautiful flower beds and silence. Study, read a book or enjoya tea or coffee break. In our gardens there is room for both rest and exercise!

Workout in the gardens in 2023

For current information, contact the organizers.

Boules greens in the baroque garden: Singelklubben and Upsala Pétanque Club practice boule in the Botanical Garden Sundays May–September, and Mondays and Thursdays May–August, respecively. Contact them if you want to try your hand at pétanque. 

Qigong at Sorbusplan (corner Norbyvägen-Villavägen, at the Nordic Africa Institute):  Mondays 12 June – 31 July, 17:30–18:30. For up-to-date information see the website of the organizer Biyunföreningen Gröna Draken.

Summer yoga in the Botanical garden: usually Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, May – August. For more information, on the Facebook page Sommaryoga i Uppsala.

Utställningar Uppsala linneanska trädgårdar

Last modified: 2023-09-15