Antti Siirala
Antti Siirala ( born May 16, 1979 in Helsinki) is a Finnish pianist.
His parents are the violinist and pianist Merit Palas Jussi Siirala, both teach at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Already at age seven, he entered the first time as a soloist with an orchestra. In 1997 he won the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna as the youngest prize winner whose story, 2000, the London International Piano Competition, and both the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition ( 1st Prize, Gold Medal and Audience Award ) in 2003.
Siirala is considered a highly musical, intelligent artist who knows with the most differentiated culture stop to stretch large musical arches and its occurrence is characterized by a more chamber music attitude.
From winning the Beethoven competition, the performance of Beethoven 's piano works at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki for several years, and a certain Beethoven focus resulted in his repertoire.
Several spectacular stand-in for Hélène Grimaud, Emanuel Ax, Ivo Pogorelich or Yefim Bronfman helped him from 2004 to ever greater attention in the musical public. Making its debut concert in Brussels, he took over because of short-term disease of the conductors from the line of the orchestra from the piano.
The Berlin Philharmonic invited him in April 2010 to a piano recital in his own piano number one ( as one of four pianists alongside Pierre- Laurent Aimard, Lang Lang and Martin Helmchen ).
Conductors who work with Siirala, include Herbert Blomstedt, Mikko Franck, Michael Gielen, Pietari Inkinen, Kristjan Järvi, Neeme Jarvi, Sir Neville Marriner, Sakari Oramo Esa -Pekka Salonen, Karl -Heinz Steffens, Vänskä and Mario Venzago.
A selection of the orchestra, in which Siirala is a guest, includes the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Frankfurt ( HR), Freiburg / Baden -Baden ( SWR ), Cologne ( WDR), Helsinki, Stockholm, London ( BBC ), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Musicians Orchestra Vienna, the Orchestre National de Belgique, City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Hague Philharmonic Orchestra the Hague, The Swedish National Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, St. Petersburg Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Mostly Mozart Orchestra New York, San Francisco Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.
Milestones included recitals at the Lucerne Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Cologne Philharmonic, London's Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at the Tonhalle Zurich, Brussels, Milan and Detroit. For three years Siirala was Artist in Residence in the series " Young and Wild " at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
His published in NAXOS CD with Schubert transcriptions received excellent reviews. She has won Gramophone magazine 's Editor's Choice Award. His CD with works by Brahms, which is published by ONDINE, received 6 out of 6 possible points in the category of interpretation with Piano News and was again selected by Gramophone Magazine as Editor's Choice. 2010 appeared at BIS recording of the 2nd Piano Concerto by Kalevi Aho (Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä ), which was also premiered by Siirala.
His repertoire includes German classical and romantic contemporary works. He played first performances of works by Walter Gieseler, Kuldar Sink, Uljas Pulkkis and Kahlevi Aho.
Discography
- Schubert Piano Transcriptions by Liszt, Prokofiev, Busoni and Godowsky. Naxos 8.555997 (2003)
- Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F Minor; 16 Waltzes. Ondine ODE 1044-2 (2004)
- Kalevi Aho: Piano Concerto No.. 2 Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä. BIS- CD - 1316 (2010)