The 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremony will be a specially designed event at the Stockholm City Hall. Anne Sofie von Otter and Kiralina Salandy will sing, Bengan Janson will play accordion and Karin Hammar will play trombone. The master of ceremonies will be actress Lena Olin.
This year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm will take place on the Nobel Day, 10 December, in the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall. It will pay tribute to this year’s laureates and include speeches by Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman of the Nobel Foundation, and members of the prize awarding institutions, woven together with video recordings from the ceremonial presentations that have occurred earlier in the week in the laureates’ respective home countries. Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia, as well as Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, will attend the event at the Blue Hall along with about 300 guests.
Actress Lena Olin has just finished filming a second season of the American TV series Hunters and is in Sweden to shoot the feature film Hilma, where she plays the role of artist Hilma af Klint, directed by Lasse Hallström. While in Stockholm, she will guide the guests through the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Cathrine Winnes, will provide the music. Performing as soloists will be world-famous mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and acclaimed Canadian-Swedish jazz vocalist Kiralina Salandy. Bengt Åke “Bengan” Jansson, recipient of the 2020 Karamelodikt award, will play accordion and Karin Hammar – one of Sweden’s most sought-after instrumental soloists and big band musicians − will play trombone. The programme was put together by stage director Linus Fellbom along with Fredrik Andersson , programme director of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
“Based on our experience from last year, but now with the wonderful addition of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, we have tried to build further on a balance between tradition and innovation. We cover a fantastic range – from Mozart’s 18th century, to Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s 19th century, to the timelessness of folk music, to Quincy Jones and Richard Galliano’s 20th century, and finally singer-songwriter goddess Joni Mitchell’s eternal message,” says Linus Fellbom.
Linus Fellbom is highly active as a lighting and set designer and as a stage director for theatrical and operatic productions worldwide. He directed the divertissement during the 2016 Nobel Prize banquet and was also in charge of the artistic special design of the 2020 ceremony at the Stockholm City Hall.
The 2021 award ceremony in Stockholm, which begins at 16.15 CET, will be broadcast on Swedish Television (SVT) and can also be watched on the official website of the Nobel Prize.
Only still photographers and reporters will be allowed inside the Stockholm City Hall – no TV/video recording. Media accreditation is required: press@nobelprize.org
Some video recording may take place outside as the guests arrive.
Media accreditation is required: press@nobelprize.org
The peace prize laureates have been invited in person to an award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway at 13.00 CET, 10 December.
Further information and images
Programme of the award ceremony in Stockholm
The programme of the award ceremony will be posted on 10 December at nobelprize.org
Images from the ceremonial presentations
The 2021 Nobel Prize medals and diplomas will be presented to the laureates at ceremonies in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy during the period 6–8 December. This year’s peace prize laureates have been invited in person to Oslo on 10 December.
Images from the ceremonial presentations in the laureates’ home countries will be available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/press-images-2021-laureates
Images of this year’s diplomas will be available on the same website.
The Nobel Prize diplomas
Each Nobel Prize laureate receives a diploma and a medal delivered in a case. The Nobel Prize medals were made by Svenska Medalj in Eskilstuna. The Nobel Prize diplomas and the medal cases were made by Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi in Stockholm. Kristine Bekkevold v/Julius & Ørenberg Bokbinderi crafted the diplomas and medal cases for the peace prize.
The calligraphy for this year’s physics, chemistry and economic sciences diplomas was created by Marianne Pettersson Soold and Marie A Györi. The calligrapher for the physiology or medicine and literature diplomas was Susan Duvnäs. The calligrapher for the peace diplomas was Christopher Haanes.
Some of the diplomas include original art works. The art work on the 2021 physics diplomas was created by Gunnel Moheim and the art work on the chemistry diplomas by Anja Richardt Krabbe. The artist for the economic sciences diplomas was Stanislaw Zoladz, and for the peace diplomas the artist was Håkon Bleken.