Olli Mustonen Brief biography of young pianist from Finland. 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"
Extractions: The QEH has, mercifully, abandoned its experiment with video 'enhancement' trained onto the keyboard, but even if your seats were not at the preferred keyboard side (where the sound of a piano is often inferior!) there was no problem about 'seeing the hands' of this pianist. Olli Mustonen offered a visual show of unique self-indulgence - one wondered if a choreographer should have been listed in his CV credits. For a quiet note, his right hand may descend from above head height; describe arabesques in the air, and sometimes he flutters his fingers. Significant moments are brought to our attention by attacking the keyboard from the back of his head, at others from a bizarre gesture at the back of his neck, as if he had to brush away an irritating insect. One could only guess that all this was based upon some alternative-medicine notion of relaxation, a world away from the unostentatious poise of Sokolov for whom such antics would be anathema.
Olli Mustonen olli mustonen has established himself as one of the most exciting pianists of his time. His brilliant technique and startling interpretations have challenged and fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America. olli mustonen as a conductor and as a composer. This new contract extends to several brandnew projects featuring the multi-talented mustonen as a pianist. http://www.hoertnagel.com/olli.htm
Extractions: Germany Olli Mustonen has established himself as one of the most exciting pianists of his time. His brilliant technique and startling interpretations have challenged and fascinated audiences throughout Europe and America. Born in Helsinki he began his studies in piano, harpsichord and composition at the age of five. His first piano teacher was Ralf Gothóni and he subsequently studied piano with Eero Heinonen and composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara. In recital Olli Mustonen frequently plays in the major music centres and appears at leading festivals and collaborates with distinguished partners like Steven Isserlis, Pekka Kuusisto and Joshua Bell. He performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic and gave recitals in Munich, Paris, Brussels and New York and chamber music cycle in Helsinki. Preludes by Shostakovitch and Alkan on Decca he received the Edison Award and the Gramophone Award for the Best Instrumental Recording in 1992.
RONDO-Archiv: Beethoven, Klaviersonate Op. 109, Mustonen Variationen über Volksweisen op. 107, Klaviersonate Nr. olli mustonen (Klavier) RCA/BMG 74321 63282 2 (59 Min., aufgenommen 10/98) Der pianist olli mustonen besticht durch seine herausragende Technik sowie durch die intelligente und außergewöhnliche http://www.rondomagazin.de/klassik/b/beethoven/lvb22.htm
Extractions: (59 Min., aufgenommen 10/98) Der Pianist Olli Mustonen besticht durch seine herausragende Technik sowie durch die intelligente und außergewöhnliche Repertoireauswahl. So überraschte er vor ungefähr einem Jahr mit seiner letzten Beethoven-Einspielung: Neben dem Monolith der Diabelli-Variationen standen viele kleinere, unbekannte Stücke auf dem Programm. Nun erweitert Mustonen seine Kombinationskunst und verbindet die Sonate op. 109 mit den Variationen über Volksweisen op. 107. Während die Sonate Nr. 30 einen festen Platz im Pantheon der Klavierliteratur einnimmt, siechen die Variationen über Jahrzehnte dahin, von den Pianisten so gut wie ignoriert und von den Musikwissenschaftlern der albernen Spielerei beschuldigt. Mustonen befreit die zehn witzigen, eine knappe Dreiviertelstunde dauernden Variationen vom Klischee der biederen Volkstümlichkeit mit nüchternem, aber äußerst sensiblem Anschlag, fernab von romantisierender Dramatik und Rubato-Effekten. Übrig bleiben die feinen Strukturen und die humorvollen Wendungen von Beethovens Variationskunst. Kleopatra Sofroniou, 11.5.2000
Yet No Title Der finnische pianist olli mustonen Er wurde am 7. Juni 1967 in Helsinki geboren und begann mit fünf Jahren Klavierunterricht zu nehmen. http://inderwahnsinn.de/akr/portraits/olli_mustonen.html
RONDO-Archiv: Schostakowitsch, Bach, Präludien Und Fugen, Mustonen Präludien und Fugen olli mustonen (Klavier) RCA/BMG 74321 61446 2 (2 CDs, 111 Min., aufgenommen 6/97) Der junge finnische pianist olli mustonen hat die Hälfte des Zyklus mit der Hälfte des ersten Buches von Bachs http://www.rondomagazin.de/klassik/s/schostakowitsch/ds08.htm
Extractions: (2 CDs, 111 Min., aufgenommen 6/97) Als Juror des Bach-Wettbewerbs 1950 in Leipzig hatte Schostakowitsch sich jede Menge Präludien und Fugen anzuhören - genug Inspiration für 24 eigene Versuche im Genre, sein Opus 87. Der junge finnische Pianist Olli Mustonen hat die Hälfte des Zyklus mit der Hälfte des ersten Buches von Bachs Wohltemperiertem Klavier originell verwoben. Beide Größen erscheinen in dieser ungewohnten Nachbarschaft in reizvoll neuem Licht. Zwar versöhnt der Kontrapunkt des 20. Jahrhunderts die Stimmen nicht immer bruchlos, stellt sie vielmehr auch häufig genug dissonant gegeneinander. Und doch gewinnt man tiefe Hochachtung vor Schostakowitsch, spricht doch die Dissonanz hier die Wahrheit unseres Jahrhunderts aus. Die pianistische Aufgabe besteht für Mustonen hier darin, das Groteske, Scharfe, zwar kenntlich zu machen, es aber nicht zu übertreiben - schließlich soll Bach von seinem russischen Bruder im Geiste nicht erschlagen werden. Umgekehrt muß Bach sich aber auch aus eigener Kraft gegenüber der Modernität von Schostakowitsch behaupten können. Hier zeigt Mustonen, was für ein begabter Pianist er ist. Er arbeitet mit allen Mitteln des modernen Konzertflügels, pedalisiert hauchzart, zaubert dann wieder irisierendes Farbenspiel aus allen Registern - und doch wohnt man nie einer Romantisierung der barocken Klänge bei. Vielmehr bleibt Mustonen immer ganz nah am polyphonen Gefüge, das uns dadurch auf einmal erschreckend heutig vorkommt - am beklemmendsten vielleicht in der das erste Buch (und diese Aufnahme) beschließenden h-Moll-Fuge BWV 869.
Young Concert Artists Alumni HUNGKUAN CHEN, pianist; RINA DOKSHINSKY, pianist; olli mustonen, pianist. top of page http://www.yca.org/alumni.html
Extractions: - THE NEW YORK TIMES YCA Alumni have had a pervasive impact on virtually all facets of classical music with alumni all over the world active in composing, conducting, performing, teaching, and founding of music institutions and festivals. They have thriving solo and chamber music careers in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Young Concert Artists Alumni have founded more than twenty-five music festivals and chamber groups, including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; TASHI; Speculum Musicae; Chamber Music Society of Boston; and the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. They have served as the conductors and artistic directors of such music institutions and festivals as The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; Mostly Mozart; Bravo! Colorado Music Festival in Vail; Dallas Symphony International Summer Music Festival; Bard College Chamber Music Festival; and Music from Angel Fire. The alumni can currently be heard on more than a thousand recordings on such major labels as Sony, RCA, and Denon, and have won nine Grammy Awards. Young Concert Artists are also professors at twenty-four major institutions, including Harvard, Yale, M.I.T., Seoul University in Korea, New England Conservatory, The Juilliard School, the Detmold Conservatory, and the Hochschule fur Musik in Leipzig, Germany.
Olli Mustonen: Mannerism Over Music The young Finnish pianist olli mustonen is one of the classical piano world's newbrat pack who seem to be trying to redefine classical pianism through willful http://www.scena.org/columns/anson/010112-PA-Mustonen.html
Extractions: Jan. 12, 2001 The young Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen is one of the classical piano world's new brat pack who seem to be trying to redefine classical pianism through willful "derangement of the senses", to use a Rimbaudesque phrase. Listening to these technically impeccable performers, one wonders if their experimentation is motivated by boredom with the old or fascination with the new. Along with the provocative Croation Ivo Pogorelich and the flamboyant Russian Arcadi Volodos, Mustonen uses the score as a springboard for his own aleatory experiments with tempo, phrasing, and dynamics. I guess Glenn Gould is the father of this eccentric school of young rebels who wilfully alienate conservative listeners, while building a small but vociferous following among the cognoscenti. Pogorelich's slow tempos and weird silences turn his concerts into sessions of mental torture or sublime zen meditation, depending on your expectations. Volodos is the idiot savant of the Steinway, performing astounding digital acrobatics that verge on a circus act.
Olli Mustonen: Mannerism Over Music The young Finnish pianist olli mustonen is one of the classical piano world's new brat pack who seem to be trying to http://www.classicalmusicnews.org/columns/anson/010112-PA-Mustonen.html
Extractions: Jan. 12, 2001 The young Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen is one of the classical piano world's new brat pack who seem to be trying to redefine classical pianism through willful "derangement of the senses", to use a Rimbaudesque phrase. Listening to these technically impeccable performers, one wonders if their experimentation is motivated by boredom with the old or fascination with the new. Along with the provocative Croation Ivo Pogorelich and the flamboyant Russian Arcadi Volodos, Mustonen uses the score as a springboard for his own aleatory experiments with tempo, phrasing, and dynamics. I guess Glenn Gould is the father of this eccentric school of young rebels who wilfully alienate conservative listeners, while building a small but vociferous following among the cognoscenti. Pogorelich's slow tempos and weird silences turn his concerts into sessions of mental torture or sublime zen meditation, depending on your expectations. Volodos is the idiot savant of the Steinway, performing astounding digital acrobatics that verge on a circus act.
Extractions: Its quite something for Griegs Piano Concerto to overshadow a bracing recent work and Strausss extravagant Alpine Symphony but Olli Mustonen managed it! He did so not by shedding new light on the piece or by suggesting he had undertaken a microscopic re-evaluation of it, but by eccentrically making it up as he went along. Individuality is fine, usually welcome, but there has to be the perception that the performer has lived with the music, contemplated it, and developed his interpretation from the music itself. From within is not a description that one could use for Mustonens immature playing at this concert. Should Mr Mustonen read his biography, he might like to reflect on the following: "For Mustonen to follow traditional interpretations unthinkingly is uncreative, but every bit as uncreative is the performance that seeks only to be different." In this concert, Mustonen did exactly the second half of that sentence; his crassness irked throughout as he displayed a breathtaking lack of musicianship. While it is true that earlier generations of musicians play with more freedom than we are used to today as conveyed by so-called historic recordings it is rare not to appreciate an individual viewpoint even if one does not agree with it. With Mustonen, nothing was thought through or related.
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Calendar Live - Stravinsky's 'Firebird' Ignites With Philharmonic, Pianist Musto Stravinsky's 'Firebird' Ignites With Philharmonic, pianist mustonen. By MARK SWED, Times Music Critic would not have approved of olli mustonen's performances of the three Stravinsky http://events.calendarlive.com/top/1%2C1419%2CL-LATimes-Print-X!ArticleDetail-24
Calendar Live - Stravinsky's 'Firebird' Ignites With Philharmonic, Pianist Musto Stravinsky's 'Firebird' Ignites With Philharmonic, pianist mustonen. By MARK SWED, Times Music Critic would not have approved of olli mustonen's performances of the three Stravinsky http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1%2C1419%2CL-LATimes-Music-X!ArticleDetail-24644
VWM mustonen, Piano / Conductor 'olli mustonen is a wonderful pianist, and a maddeningone to pretty much the same extent and for pretty much the same reasons. http://www.vanwalsum.co.uk/amd/artists/om.htm
Extractions: 'Olli Mustonen is a wonderful pianist, and a maddening one - to pretty much the same extent and for pretty much the same reasons. He is, as he showed all through his Carnegie Hall recital on Friday night, a master of delicate touch. His playing is always light, achieving force by insistent attack rather than weight. But the lightness can be vastly varied in colour and tone, often with spectacular control, so that, for instance, he can leap down the keyboard in octaves giving each note the same nuance, even at extreme pianissimo.'
VWM Hagner Mark Steinberg VIOLA Yuri Bashmet PIANO FrançoisFrédéric Guy StephenKovacevich olli mustonen Mitsuko Uchida Ashley Wass pianist/BROADCASTER Iain http://www.vanwalsum.co.uk/amd/amdlist.htm
Extractions: Dear Friends, The Celebrity Series is an international showcase featuring distinguished soloists and visiting orchestras from around the world. We begin in November with the return of violin virtuoso Joshua Bell as he is joined - for the first time - by the acclaimed Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Another first will be an appearance of the Hungarian National Orchestra with their Music Director Zoltán Kocsis . This all-Hungarian program promises to be a highlight of the season. Continuing our tradition of welcoming back San Diego's favorite artists and orchestras in new programs, we have secured dates with: pianist Louis Lortie , violinist Sarah Chang , the Czech Philharmonic with Vladimir Ashkenazy , and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Olli Mustonen With all our great music - plus an entire weekend of world-class dance featuring the renowned Stuttgart Ballet - we know you will want to secure your seats today for a season of unsurpassed excitement and beauty!
ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network a strenuous Alpine climb. olli mustonen is a young Finnish pianist witha growing reputation on CD. Perhaps he is better appreciated http://www.concertonet.com/Exec/review.asp?IndexReview=976
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Report On Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 1996 olli mustonen (pianist and conductor), Virtuosi di Kuhmo. mustonen's emotionallystrong style was a positive experience. Mon, 15.7. 11.00 http://www.cis.hut.fi/~tho/classic/kuhmo96.html
Extractions: Impressions of the First Week I was happy to win one week ticket for Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in the lottery organized by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Appreciation Society. In the following, I quote the festival leaflet. The phrases are not "just marketing" - they are real at least as experienced by myself during the five personal visits. "The Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival is highly democratic. Not even the brightest megastar gets an easier deal. He spends the mornings teaching, the afternoons and evenings in concert, and the nights practising." "The artists usually come for the duration, spending the entire two weeks living in humble accommodation (the local school hostels), teaching and practising in the classrooms, giving concerts in the school gym, and freshening up at the sauna evenings laid on by local families. Gone is all the external glitter and glamour." The ticket permitted me to go to almost all concerts in the first week between 14th and 21st of July. This year the chamber music by Haydn and Mozart was in a central position. I'll describe now briefly some of the experiences I had during the week. I am not going to give full details. I'll rather concentrate on the impressions and the anecdotal remarks based on my personal likings. All the visited concerts are listed to serve as a personal diary and to give a general idea of the contents. Sun, 14.7. 19.00
