Bengt Ollén (born 17 August 1950 in Lidköping, Sweden) is a Swedish choral conductor, music teacher, adjudicator and lecturer.
[citation needed] After studying mechanical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Ollén received his Master's Degree in 1976.
After briefly working at Swedish ball-bearing company SKF in Gothenburg he decided that he loved music more than mechanics.
[1] In 2015 Sveriges Radio, the Swedish public-broadcasting system, appointed Sofia Vokalensemble under Bengt Ollén as Sweden's representative in Let the Peoples Sing (LTPS), an international choir competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Stockholms Musikgymnasium accepts students based on a combination of grade point average, singing auditions and tests in music theory.