In 1997, Allmänna Sången won first prize in the mixed choir category at the Grand Prix Competition in Tolosa, Spain.
Allmänna Sången, the Uppsala University Choir, was founded in 1830 and is the oldest university choir in Scandinavia.
Cecilia Rydinger Alin, the conductor, won first prize in a major conducting competition arranged by the Royal Opera in Stockholm in 1991.
Cecilia Rydinger Alin has been the chief conductor at Musikteatern in Karlstad since 1994.
Cecilia Rydinger Alin, the conductor of this album, was elected conductor of Allmänna Sången in 1988.
Allmänna Sången was originally an all-male choir but became a mixed choir in 1963.
Allmänna Sången was declared 'Choir of the World' in 1992 at an international competition in Llangollen, Wales.
