Olli Mustonen

Olli Mustonen ( born June 7, 1967 in Helsinki) is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.

Life

Olli Mustonen received at the age of five years, harpsichord, with seven years of piano lessons with Ralf Gothóni and from 1975 lessons in composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara. He continued his education to become a conductor and concert pianist studied at Eero Heinonen. In 1984, he won second place in the competition for young soloists ( Euro Vision Young Musicians ) in Geneva and gave his first concerts with various Finnish orchestras. In 1989, he assumed duties in Finnish musical life: as artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival and the Turku Music Festival (1990-1992), as co-founder and director of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra and since 2003 as conductor of the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta. As a pianist concerted Mustonen among others, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic and the conductor Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Kent Nagano, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Charles Dutoit, Myung- Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez. In 1999, Mustonen with Esa- Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which is dedicated to him, Rodion Shchedrin 's 5th piano concerto premiered. 2005 he was a composer and performer " Artist in Residence " at the Usedom Music Festival.

Work

The versatility as a pianist, conductor and composer makes Mustonen is a rare event in the musical life. His expressive interpretations are characterized by violent outbursts and sensitive restraint. His lying off from the established canon recordings are regarded as milestones in the history of interpretation. As a conductor, he has conducted many world-class orchestra and founded the Helsinki Festival Orchestra. The composer Mustonen has emerged with its own contemporary music and adaptations of earlier works, in which he takes up contrapuntally interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century and ideas of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Prizes and awards

  • For the recording of the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Dmitri Shostakovich and the 25 Preludes by Charles- Valentin Alkan Mustonen received the 1992 Edison Award and Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording.

Recordings

  • Various Piano Variations by Olli Mustonen and Ludwig van Beethoven ( Composer) by Decca ( ​​Universal) ( Audio CD - 1993)
  • Concert Transkriptonen for Piano by Mustonen, Dkp, JS Bach ( Composer), and l.V. Beethoven by Decca ( ​​Universal) ( Audio CD - 1994)
  • Piano Concertos 1/a-Moll Op.16 by O. Mustonen, Blomstedt, Sfso, and F. Chopin ( Composer) by Decca ( ​​Universal) ( Audio CD - 1995)
  • Preludes and fugues of Bach and Shostakovich by Olli Mustonen and Johann Sebastian Bach ( Composer) by Rca Red S. (Sony BMG) (Audio CD - 1999)
  • Sonata Op. 109 / Variations on Folk Tunes, Op. 107 [UK- Import] by Olli Mustonen and Ludwig van Beethoven ( Composer) by Rca Red S. (Sony BMG) (Audio CD - 2000)
  • . Triple Concerto / Petite Suite / N of Kuusisto, Tapiola Sinf, Muston, and Olli Mustonen (Composer) by Ode ( Note 1) ( Audio CD - 2001)
  • Preludes and Fugues from WTK I by Olli Mustonen, Bach ( Composer), and Shostakovich from Ode ( Note 1) ( Audio CD - 2004)

Compositions

A full list can be found on the external web link of the Finnish Music Information Centre.

  • Divertimento (1979 ) for piano and orchestra
  • Fantasia (1985 ) for piano and strings
  • Toccata (1989 ) for piano, string quartet and double bass
  • Two Nonets ( 1995, 2000 ) for two string quartets and double bass
  • Concerto for Three Violins ( 1998)
  • Sinuhe - Sonata for Solo Oboe (2005-2006)
  • Jahkin Iivana - Sonata for Guitar ( 2004) and Piano ( 2006)
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 2006)
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