FAST-FIN-1 (TRENPP2C) Finnish Institutions Papers There are also great solo artists, such as the opera singer Karita Mattila andthe pianist ralf gothoni, who is also a conductor and a chamber musician. http://www.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/CULT/ks-sibel.html
Extractions: Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere "On the world map, Finland is a tiny country; but on the world map of contemporary music, Finland is a superpower. Thanks to Jean Sibelius, music occupies a central position in Finnish society. Over the past 30 years Finnish music life has enjoyed a unique boom. New operas, orchestral works and chamber music works are being commissioned and performed continuously." ( Contemporary Music 1. The Roots of the Musical Success of the Finns 1.1 A Brief History of the Finnish Art Song: Pacius, Collan and Fabritius Sibelius (1865-1957) Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (Janne for the family, Jean used as a professional name from 1886) is the most famous Finnish composer - and one could also say one of the most famous Finns - of all times. Not only in Finland but also in the history of music as a whole, he is one of the most important writers of symphonies and tone poems. Sibelius' role as the national composer was especially important because he had the ability to express Finnish legends, history and landscape in a unique way through his music. His position as a Finnish national romanticist is what he has for long been best known for in many countries. He was indeed a very important figure in Finland's strive towards independence, but he was also a modernist and a pioneer in the forms and textures of orchestral and piano music (Murtomäki). But was there also some good fortune involved with his becoming such a great figure in the field of contemporary music? Notwithstanding his genius, one can say that he was definitely born in the right place at the right time. At the time of Sibelius' birth, the centuries-long connection between Finland and Sweden had been broken for nearly 40 years, and Finland had started to seek its own national identity as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire (Murtomäki).
ICMF PROJECT PROFILE 2003 Hankinson, Pops Mohamed, Bruce Cassidy, Meki Nzewi (Nigerian composer and currentPASMAE President), ralf gothoni (world acclaimed pianist and principal http://www.icmf.co.za/Profile 2003.htm
Extractions: "uniting the power of indigenous, traditional, jazz and Western classical music through education and performance" PROJECT PROFILE 2003 The International Classical Music Festival of South Africa is a cross-cultural initiative combining education with an international festival of music. Besides its many immediate beneficial effects locally, this internationally recognised event helps to make South Africa attractive to the rest of the world, bringing visitors and reinforcing investor confidence in our country. The Festival, now in its third year, is an annual event with ongoing activities from Festival to Festival. Patrons: Dr B. S. Ngubane, South African Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, and Mr Martti Ahtisaari , former president of Finland and current peace-facilitator, have both offered the Festival their continuous support in years to come. The Department of Arts and Culture and the ICMF are currently negotiating a plan for the Departments and the Ministers extended involvement. Communication through music between people of culturally diverse backgrounds is one of the ways to peaceful coexistence Cultural communities come together to create and innovate. It is in the interest of the entire world to support culture as an absolute imperative, especially in countries with severe social problems.
פסטיבלי קלאס&# Georges Pludermacher, Lars Vogt, Mikhaïl Pletnev, Kenneth Weiss, ralf gothoni, FrankBraley JeanPaul Fouchécourt and the gifted French pianist Alain Planès http://www.klassi.net/new_reviews/opus7/
Extractions: no photo Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts, for the first time, Verdi's Messa da Requiem . The music reflecting this year's theme, "...transported to a better world" include works by Josquin and Messiaen, Bach and Handel, music from the courts in Sanssouci and Mannheim, pieces by Mozart and Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Viktor Ullmann and Karl Schiske. Klezmer and film music, a recital of Schnitzler works by and with Senta Berger, a musical journey from Spain to the New World presented by Jordi Savall and the characteristic sound of the American independence movement complete the programme of the styriarte 2002. Cecilia Bartoli, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra , Il Giardino Armonico, Concerto Koeln, French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, vocal soloists Luba Orgonasova, Marjana Lipovsek, Ramón Vargas and Mati Salminen, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir are among the musicians featured this year.
Olli Mustonen Brief biography of young pianist from Finland.Category Arts Music Instruments Keyboard Piano pianists Mpianist, composer born 7.6.1967 Vantaa, Finland. studied piano underRalf gothoni and composition under Einojuhani Rautavaara. artistic http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/mustonen.html
Extractions: Pianist, composer born 7.6.1967 Vantaa, Finland studied piano under Ralf Gothoni and composition under Einojuhani Rautavaara artistic director of the Korsholma music festivals in 1989 at the age of 21 and held the same post at the Turku Music Festival (1990-92) has toured extensively around the world working with several major orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the London Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw in the Netherlands. In addition, he has worked with many leading conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Klaus Tennstedt. winner of numerous prizes, among them the Gramophone Award for the Best Instrumental Recording of 1992 "Burning hands point towards the next millenium"
Classical Music Calendar NORTHWEST CHAMBER ORCHESTRA 230 pm Violinist Mark Lubotsky, pianist ralf Gothoniin Russian to Finnish, works by Mozart, Shostakovich, Schnittke. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/classical/classiccalendar.shtml
Extractions: Jump to Weather Traffic Mariners Seahawks ... Forums NEWS Local Neighborhoods Sports Nation/World ... Special Reports COMMENTARY Opinion Columnists Letters David Horsey ... Forums COFFEE BREAK Mike Mailway TV Listings SHOPPING Archives NWclassifieds Jobs Autos ... Online Shop P-I ANYWHERE E-mail Newsletters News Alerts PDA Cell Phones ... Desktop Friday, March 28, 2003 Classical music calendar A check mark indicates a recommendation by the P-I's R.M. Campbell. DALE KAVANAGH: 7:30 p.m. Seattle Classic Guitar Society closes its 2002-03 Benaroya Concert Series with the Canadian guitarist. Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall. Tickets: $28, $22 students/seniors/members; 206-297-8788. JO ANN STREMLER: 7:30 p.m. The organist performs works by Bach, Dupre, Vierne and Liszt. University Presbyterian Church, 4540 15th Ave. N.E. Donation: $10; 206-524-7301 Ext. 62. JOHN LANGSTAFF AND JEROME EPSTEIN: 7:30 p.m. The duo performs traditional British and American songs. First United Methodist Church of Tacoma, 423 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma. Tickets: $15; 253-756-1804. SEATTLE COMPOSERS' SALON: 8 p.m. The semi-monthly, information presentation of new music by Seattle composers returns with the premiere of David Mesler's "The Book of Carols." Soundbridge Seattle Symphony Music Discovery Center, Benaroya Hall. Donation: $5.
BBC - Proms - Reviews The Finnish conductor/pianist ralf Gothóni leapt up and swept the English Chamber ralfGothoni conducted with style and spirit, not least in the Haydn piano http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/you/reviews/1008.shtml
Books From Finland 1/2000 Essays on travelling in music', Ajatus, 1998), translated by Hildi Hawkins Thepianist ralf gothoni has made more than 80 recordings, some as a conductor http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/bff/100/100.html
Lipsanen Art Collection | Collector's Profile life. Especially the cooperation with the pianist, conductor and composerRalf gothoni has proved out to be very fruitful. In 1986 http://www.kolumbus.fi/lipsanengroup/gallery/collector.html
Extractions: Collecting is a way to pass on information and knowledge. Juhani Lipsanen's first objects of collecting were antique weapons and peasant utensils. It was the ability of craftsmen to bring esthetics into everyday life and to create objects that were both functional and beautiful in a timeless way that intrigued the young man. Guns and swords, tools of destruction, removed from their violent purpose of being spoke of different cultures and of the strangeness of human beings to include a sliver of esthetics not only to living but to dying as well. The stark beauty of peasant handicrafts evoked the presence of personal history - in the grooves and indentations the thumbprints of the makers and the users of the everyday objects could be felt. It was then when one of the main reasons for collecting crystallized in Juhani Lipsanen's mind: collecting was a way to remember and preserve. Collecting enables one to stand in the intersection of the international, the national and the personal. Collecting art is a thought process, a way to learn from life by assembling and reassembling esthetic objects, an avenue to striking visions and endless questions.
Elina Vähälä, Violinist to Elina Vähälä perform the third movement of the Debussy Sonata (with pianistMinna Kivilä) (1 ralf gothoni, Concerto Grosso for Violin, Piano and Strings. http://www.yca.org/vahala.html
Extractions: "The Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä gave a decisive and spirited debut. A thoughtful musician, she has all the technical accomplishment and confidence she needs to project her thoughts. Her intonation is sure and her tone fine, going all the way from a grainy, almost reedy insistence, but perfectly formed, to soft dabs of sounds. This range of color was especially useful in the Debussy Sonata - she made musical poetry with a nice robust edge to it. In her performance of the Brahms Sonata in D Minor, her delicacy of sound and rhythm in the third movement was marvelous. In the highly musical reading of this work, she breathed each movement, and even the whole sonata, as one." "Elina Vähälä is a very good violinist with a solid technique and a pure, focused tone. Her reading of the Debussy Sonata was flexible and colorful. In the Brahms Sonata, she produced a lovely, warm, sustained tone in the slow movement, and the third movement was very driven and virtuosic. She really came into her own with a very striking, convincing performance of Preludes from Op. 34 by Shostakovich, arranged by Tsyganov. Vähälä's strong affinity for the music gave her tone resonance and variety and her playing had spontaneity, fire and expressiveness."
Rundetaarn - Koncerter Competition. He has studied with Timo Korhonen and chamber music with thepianist ralf gothoni at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Further http://www.rundetaarn.dk/engelsk/cgfprogrammer/11augustismocurr.html
New Page 1 since, he had enjoyed a manysided career as solo pianist, chamber musician ralf Gothoniwas named the Principal Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, in http://www.manasterly.com/fourth_concert_w2.htm
Extractions: 12 January 2003 Ralph Gothony Finland Ralph Gothoni (born in Finland) began his studies on the violin at age three and on piano at age five. At 15 he debuted as an orchestra soloist and in 1967, he appeared at the Jyväskyla Summer Festival as the "debutant of the year". In the thirty-three years since, he had enjoyed a many-sided career as solo pianist, chamber musician and conductor all over the world. His performances include appearances at prestigious music festivals-Salzburg, Berlin, Prague, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, La Roque de Antheron, Ravinia, Tanglewood and more- and performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Japan Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, among others. Mr. Gothoni has recorded some 80 albums for several labels, including BIS, Decea, DGG, EMI and Ondine, with whom he has produced more than twenty CD's in recent years. One of them is Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto, which includes the composer's original third movement. His latest recording is piano concerto (Choros XI) by Villa Lobos together with Sakarr Oramo and the Finnish Radio Orchestra. Ralf Gothoni was named the Principal Conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra, in 2001 he was named also the Music Director of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra Seattle.
Yet No Title Translate this page nahm Kompositionsunterricht. Sein ersten Klavierlehrer war der renomiertePianist und Liedbegleiter ralf gothoni. Später studierte http://inderwahnsinn.de/akr/portraits/olli_mustonen.html
Josephine Knight Biography Future highlights will include a Wigmore Hall Recital with the distinguished pianistand conductor ralf gothoni, a solo appearance at the Barbican Centre in http://www.purplepatchmusic.com/Josephine Knight biography.htm
Schloss Grafenegg - Konzerte pianist´spianist . Hat man ihn gehört, weiß man, wie Schubert geht. http://www.grafenegg.at/kultur/ku_va1910_gothoni.htm
Extractions: Wenn er spielt, werden Kollegen zu Hörenden. Er ist "a pianist´s pianist". Hat man ihn gehört, weiß man, wie Schubert geht. Der Komponist, Verfasser von Schriften über Musik und kongeniale Partner am Klavier (Anne Sophie von Otters) ist seit 2001 Chefdirigent des English Chamber Orchestra. 1994 erhielt Gothoni den Gilmore Prize. Diesen mit "einigen Millionen Euros" dotierten, sagenhaften Preis erringt, nach dem letzten Willen eines exzentrischen Dollarmillionärs, ein "reifer, etablierter Pianist, der größere Reputation" verdient. Die Jury ist geheim, Kandidaten werden, ohne zu wissen, überhaupt in der Auswahl zu sein, über einen langen Zeitraum beobachtet.
Www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol26/vol26n22/8.txt 3 pm Free. Mr. Furminger is a student of Prof. Jan Williams. Piano Recital RalfGothoni, pianist. Slee Concert Hall. North Campus. 7 pm $7. 50, $15. http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol26/vol26n22/8.txt
Untitled Translate this page den Weltklasse-Liedbegleitern Irwin Gage, Dalton Baldwin, Wolfram Rieger und RalfGothoni. Fabian Schubert (pianist) Fabian Schubert wurde 1970 in Kiel geboren http://www.gesangskurse.de/bio.htm
Extractions: Nach ihrem mit "sehr gut" bestandenen PädagogInnen-Diplom arbeitete sie weiterhin neben ihrer Bühnentätigkeit mit SängerInnen und bildete sich auch in anderen Bereichen weiter, die in ihren Unterricht einfließen (z.B. Tai Chi, Yoga, Meditation, Atemtypen nach Romeo A. Kia). Noch während ihres Studiums wurde sie als Gast für zwei Produktionen an die Bremer Oper engagiert. Nach ihrem Diplom wurde die junge Mezzosopranistin sofort als Solistin an die Städtischen Bühnen Münster verpflichtet. Dort verkörperte sie zahlreiche Partien auf der Bühne. Um nur einige zu nennen: Hänsel in "Hänsel und Gretel", Cherubino in "Hochzeit des Figaro", Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus", Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady", Maria in "WestSideStory". Sie war nebenbei in den letzten Jahren ein gern gesehener Gast an den Opernhäusern in Köln, Kassel, Bremen, Kiel und Lübeck. Seit dem Sommer 2001 ist sie fest an der Oper in Bremen engagiert und stand dort u.a. in der vielbeachteten Uraufführung "Noach", als Dorabella in "Così fan tutte" und als Polina in "Pique Dame" auf der Bühne.
