Olli Mustonen |

Olli Mustonen

ʻO Olli Mustonen he mea hoʻokani pila o ko mākou manawa: haku mele, piano, alakaʻi. Hānau ʻia i ka makahiki 1967 ma Helsinki. I ka makahiki 5, ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia e aʻo i nā haʻawina piano a me nā harpsichord, a me ka haku mele. Ua aʻo ʻo ia me Ralph Gotoni, a laila hoʻomau i kāna mau haʻawina piano me Eero Heinonen a me ka haku mele me Einoyuhani Rautavaara. I ka makahiki 1984, ua lilo 'o ia i laureate o ka ho'okûkû no ka po'e 'ōpio o ke mele ho'ona'auao "Eurovision" ma Geneva.

Ma ke ʻano he soloist, ua hoʻokani ʻo ia me nā orkestra o Berlin, Munich, New York, Prague, Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Melbourne, ka Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ka BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, ka Australian Chamber Orchestra a me nā alakaʻi e like me Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel. Barenboim, Herbert Bloomstedt, Martin Brabbins, Pierre Boulez, Myung Wun Chung, Charles Duthoit, Christophe Eschenbach, Nikolaus Arnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Kent Nagano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yukka-Pekka Saraste, Paavo Järvi, Yuri Bashmet a me na mea e ae. Ua alakaʻi i ka hapa nui o nā orchestras ma Finland, ka German Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra ma Bremen, ka Weimar Staatskapelle, ka West German Radio Orchestras ma Cologne, ka Salzburg Camerata, ka Northern Symphony (Great Britain), ka Scottish Chamber Orchestra, ka Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, ka ʻO Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, ka Japanese NHK a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu i ka Helsinki Festival Orchestra.

No nā makahiki he nui, ua hui pū ʻia ma waena o Mustonen a me ka Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra a me Valery Gergiev. I ka makahiki 2011, ua komo ka piano i ka ʻaha mele hope o ka 70th Moscow Easter Festival. Hoʻopili pū ʻo Mustonen me Rodion Shchedrin, nāna i hoʻolaʻa i ka Concerto Piano ʻelima i ka mea hoʻokani piano a kono iā ia e hana i kēia hana ma kāna mau ʻahamele makahiki 75th, 80th a me 2013th anniversary. I ʻAukake 4, hoʻokani ʻo Mustonen i ka Concerto No. XNUMX o Shchedrin ma ka Baltic Sea Festival ma Stockholm me ka Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. Ma lalo o ka baton o Mustonen, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia kahi disiki o nā haku mele a Shchedrin – he leo mele Sotto cello a me kahi hui mai ka ballet The Seagull.

ʻO nā haku mele a Mustonen he ʻelua symphonies a me nā hana hoʻokani ʻē aʻe, nā concerto no ka piano a no ʻekolu violins a me ka hoʻokani pila, nā hana keʻena he nui, a me kahi pōʻai leo i hoʻokumu ʻia i nā mele a Eino Leino. Loaʻa iā ia nā orchestration a me nā kope o nā hana a Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Prokofiev. Ma 2012, ua alakaʻi ʻo Mustonen i ka mua o kāna First Tuuri Symphony no ka baritone a me ka orchestra i kauoha ʻia e ka Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. ʻO ka symphony ʻelua, ʻo Johannes Angelos, ua kauoha ʻia e ka Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra a ua hana mua ʻia ma lalo o ka baton o ka mea kākau ma 2014.

Loaʻa i nā mele a Mustonen nā preludes na Shostakovich a me Alkan (Edison Award a me Gramophone Magazine's Best Instrumental Recording Award). I ka makahiki 2002, ua kau inoa ka mea hookani pila i ka palapala kuikahi me ka Ondine label, i kakau ia Preludes a me Fugues na Bach a me Shostakovich, na hana a Sibelius a me Prokofiev, Rachmaninov's Sonata No. Sinfonietta orchestra. ʻO nā hoʻopaʻa hoʻopaʻa hoʻopaʻa ʻana i kēia manawa ʻo Respighi's Mixolydian Concerto me ka Finnish Radio Orchestra i alakaʻi ʻia e Sakari Oramo a me kahi disc o nā haku mele na Scriabin. Ma 1, hoʻopaʻa ʻo Mustonen i kāna Sonata no Cello a me Piano ma ke ʻano he duet me Steven Isserlis.

I ka makahiki 2015, ua hoʻomaka mua ʻia ʻo Mustonen's Piano Quintet ma ka Spannungen Festival ma Heimbach, Kelemānia. Ua hana koke ʻia ʻo Quintet premieres ma Stockholm a me Lākana. Ma ka lā 15 o Nowemapa, 2015, i ka lā wehe o Valery Gergiev's 360 Degrees Festival ma Munich, ua komo ʻo Mustonen i kahi marathon kūʻokoʻa - kahi hana o nā concerto piano a pau a Prokofiev me ka Munich Philharmonic Orchestra i alakaʻi ʻia e ka maestro Gergiev, e hoʻokani ana i ka Concerto No. 5. Hana i ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana i kahi pōʻai piha o nā concerto piano a Prokofiev. Hāʻawi ʻia me ka makana mokuʻāina kiʻekiʻe loa o Finland no nā mea pena - ka mekala Pro Finlandia.