The Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir from Sweden will perform at the HCM City Opera House on March 2 to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Vietnam (Photo courtesy of HBSO)

The 33-member choir will open the night with a sequence of Swedish contemporary compositions. The highlighted work will be Forkladd Gud (A God Disguised) suite composed in 1940 by Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson to lyrics by Swedish writer and poet Hjalmar Gullberg. The Gustav Sjokvist Chamber Choir was founded by Gustav Sjokvist in Stockholm in 1994. The choir specializes in contemporary music, but will also perform works by Bach, Mozart and Brahms.