Gary Graden is a frequent guest as conductor, teacher and adjudicator throughout the world.
With his trio WÅG (Wager Åstrand Graden) he is developing and exploring improvisational music for voice and instruments. With the Stockholm Cathedral Vocal Ensemble he performs repertoire from all periods for solo and small ensemble. Graden has commissioned and premiered more than 90 works, and performed such larger works as Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in c-minor, Bach’s passions and Mass in b-minor, as well as the Requiems of Brahms, Duruflé, Fauré and Michael Haydn.
His work as conductor and singer is documented on many radio and more than 30 CD recordings (BIS, Carus, Proprius, Caprice, Phono Svecia, Gehrmans, nosag, Camerata Tokyo, a.o.), including recordings of the Bach Motets and St. John Passion, and Handel’s Messiah.
Graden is the recipient of the 1998 “Johannes Norrby medal” for his contribution to Swedish choral music, and was elected Sweden’s Choral Conductor of the Year in 2005. In 2009 he was awarded the Guidoneum Award from the Fondazione Guido D’Arezzo in Italy, in 2015 the S:ta Cecilia Prize awarded by the Stockholm diocese of the Swedish Church, and in 2020 the medal Litteris et Artibus awarded by the king of Sweden.