The history of the choir

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It was when their time in a high school choir was nearing its inevitable end that a group of friends decided that they were not yet finished with neither club activities nor choir singing. Because of this they gathered a group of talented people from the choir's graduates and began to look for someone who could lead the new project musically.

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Two years earlier, the high school choir's conductor at the time, Martin Hellberg, had the same idea - an unrealized vision of a continued choir with the singers he himself met during his high school years. Therefore he was not difficult to convince when he was asked to participate in the choir as its leader and conductor.

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This is how the idea of the nation choir was created, which  became Sönerna in the spring of 2021. The choir then had its first concert that fall, and was met with a packed audience and a standing ovation. In February 2022, Sönerna was formally recognized as an association at Snerike's nation, and thus began its journey as an official nation choir in Uppsala.