Anton Holmer

Highly sought after as an emerging and dedicated talent, Anton Holmer is widely recognised for his natural leadership, meticulous work and stylistic sensibility. This has quickly earned him professional recognition both in his native Sweden and internationally.

Highlights of the 2024-2025 season include debuts with the Royal Swedish Opera, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Malmö Symphony Orchestra.

Holmer maintains a close relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, both of whom he conducted on several occasions during the last seasons. His previous engagements have also included performances with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Metz, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, Jönköpings Sinfonietta, and Dalasinfoniettan.

Passionate about historically informed performance practice on modern instruments, he has been praised for his interpretations of late eighteenth-century repertoire.

Holmer has assisted his compatriot and legendary conductor Herbert Blomstedt on several occasions. From 2021 to 2023, he served as the Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conducting a wide range of repertoire.

He has been awarded numerous scholarships from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and received the Crusell Scholarship for promising young conductors in 2021. Holmer was a semi-finalist in the Nicolai Malko Competition with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in 2021, as well as in the London Symphony Orchestra Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2018.

Holmer studied conducting at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart under Prof. Per Borin. He further honed his skills through masterclasses with Bernard Haitink and Jorma Panula. Before fully dedicating himself to conducting, Holmer studied organ, piano, and choral conducting at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon. He also holds a master’s degree in organ performance from the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

Proficient in six languages, Holmer is also a passionate craftsman who makes his own conducting batons.