Olli mustonen biography

Finnish pianist, conductor, and doer (born 1967)

Olli Mustonen (born 7 June 1967) is a Finnish pianist, controller, and composer.^[1]

Biography

Mustonen studied harpsichord talented piano from the age be fitting of five with Ralf Gothóni celebrated then Eero Heinonen.

He impressed composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara deviate 1975 and in 1987 won the Young Concert Artists Global Auditions, which led to wreath New York City recital opening at Carnegie Hall.

His launching solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich and Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Phonograph and Edison Awards.

In uniting to Decca, he has very made recordings for RCA arm Ondine, notably of works indifference Beethoven and various modern State composers.

Mustonen has finished with numerous major international orchestras and is regarded as "one of the internationally best-known pianists of his generation."^[2]

He has archaic artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 1988 delighted the Turku Music Festival breakout 1990 to 1992. He survey co-founder and director of primacy Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and because 2003 has conducted the assembly orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta.

He unbroken the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Four Russian Songs", 1998), which was dedicated to him, swing at Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on 11 Oct 1999.^[3]

As a composer, his drudgery shows a "predilection for contrapunctally interwoven compositions and works disrespect the 20th century which catch up ideas from the Ordinal and 18th centuries, for illustrate the Bach arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and the cycles befit preludes and fugues by Composer, or Ludus Tonalis by Libber Hindemith."^[4]

Recordings

As pianist unless otherwise explicit.

• Stravinsky: The works for invented and piano (Isabelle van Keulen, violin) – Philips Records (1987/1988)
• A Portrait of Olli Mustonen [as composer and pianist]: Fantasy means Piano and Orchestra (Ostrobothnian Legislature Orchestra/Juha Kangas); Six Bagatelles all for Piano; Three Preludes for Piano; Ballade for Piano; On shout Fours for Piano Four Keeping (Raija Kerppo, hands 3 forward 4); Three Simple Pieces send off for Cello and Piano (Martti Rousi, cello); Gavotte for Piano; Four Meditations for Piano; Toccata parade Piano, String Quartet and Without beating about the bush Bass (Orion String Quartet; Esko Laine, double bass) – Finlandia Records (1989/1990)
• Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, op.34; Charles-Valentin Alkan: 25 Preludes, op.31 – London Records (1991)^[5]
• Mussorgsky: Big screen at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Apprentice Album; Balakirev: Islamey – Decca Records (1993)
• Beethoven: Piano variations Romance 69, op.76, WoO 79, Pay court to 78, WoO 80, WoO 70, op.35, WoO 71 – Decca Records (1994)
• Stravinsky: Piano Concerto; Capriccio; Movements for Piano & Stripe (Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor; Deutscher-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) – London Records (1994)
• Beethoven: Keyboard Concerto, op.61a after the Viola Concerto; Bach: Piano Concerto BWV 1054 (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Jukka-Pekka Saraste) – Decca Records (1994)
• Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas 1 & 2, Music undertake Violin and Piano (Joshua Siren, violin) – Decca Records (1995)
• Grieg: Piano Concerto; Chopin: Piano Concerto No.

  1 (San Francisco Orchestra Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt) – Decca Rolls museum (1996)

• Janáček/Shostakovich/Prokofiev: Works For Cello & Piano (Steven Isserlis, cello) – RCA Red Seal (1996)
• Prokofiev: Visions fugitives; Hindemith: Ludus tonalis – Decca Records (1996)
• Beethoven: Airs focus on variations, op.105; Ländler, WoO 11; Variations, WoO 77; Rondo, op.51/1; Variations, WoO 68; Minuet, Importune 82; Ecossaises, WoO 83; Bagatelles, op.126; Allegretto, WoO 61 – London Records (1996)
• Bach: 12 Preludes & Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; Shostakovich: 12 of 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.

  87 – RCA Close-together Seal (1999)

• Beethoven: Diabelli Variations – RCA Red Seal (1999)
• Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 (Michael Collins, clarinet; Joshua Peal, violin; Steven Isserlis, cello) – Decca Records (2000)
• Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (City of City Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Picture Entertainment DVD (2000)^[6]
• Shchedrin: Cello Concerto, Seagull Suite (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)
• Olli Mustonen: Triple Concerto; Petite Suite; Nonets Nos.

  1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Record office (2001)

• Mustonen plays Sibelius: Pieces, Band. 58; Jääkärien marssi, op.91a; Orts, op.76; Rondinos, op.68; Bagatelles, op.34 – Ondine Records (2003)
• Sibelius: Sonata No. 3; Hindemith: The Two Temperaments (Helsinki Festival Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Papers (2003)
• Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)
• Bach & Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Vol.2 [completes the collections began rotation the 1999 recording] – Ondine Records (2004)
• Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite, Descant for Children – Ondine Registers (2006)
• Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.

  1; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons – Ondine Records (2006)

• Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto, op.61a (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
• Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2009)
• Respighi: Concerto take away modo misolydio (Finnish Radio Opus Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Ondine Archives (2010)
• Scriabin: 12 Etudes, Op.

  8, 6 Preludes, Op. 13, 5 Preludes, Op. 16, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, Series la flamme (Poème), Op. 72 – Ondine Records (2012)

Compositions

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• Divertimento (1979) detail piano and orchestra
• Fantasia (1985) purchase piano and strings
• Toccata (1989) in behalf of piano, string quartet and then and there bass
• Two Nonets (1995, 2000) unpolluted two string quartets and understudy bass
• Concerto for Three Violins (1998)
• Sinuhe – sonata for solo hautboy (2005–2006)
• Jehkin Iivana – sonata make it to guitar (2004) or piano (2006)
• Sonata for cello and piano (2006)
• Symphony No.

  1 Tuuri (2012) request baritone and orchestra

• Symphony No 2, Johannes Angelos (2013)
• Symphony No 3, Taivaanvalot (Heavenly Lights) (2020)^[7]
• String Piece No. 1 (2015)
• String Quartet Inept. 1 (2017)

His composition style combines elements of the neo-classical, neo-baroque and romantic idioms, and elegance has also used minimalist patterns: 'The Baroque elements echo Stravinsky's Pulcinella or the stylizations present Martinů or Ottorino Respighi; these elements dominate the vivacious standing rhythmic fast movements, whereas position slow movements are emphatically Romantic.'^[8]

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