Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer.
24 Facts About Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Esa-Pekka Salonen is conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, and music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen's conducting classmates included Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Osmo Vanska.
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Later, Esa-Pekka Salonen studied with the composers Franco Donatoni, Niccolo Castiglioni, and Einojuhani Rautavaara.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen was principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia from 1985 to 1994.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen was principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1995.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen co-founded the Baltic Sea Festival in 2003 with Michael Tyden and Valery Gergiev.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen made his conducting debut in the United States with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1984.
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Four months later, Esa-Pekka Salonen was named the orchestra's tenth music director, officially taking the post in 1992 and holding it until 2009.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen has conducted several commercial recordings with the Philharmonia, including music of Berlioz and Schonberg.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen made his Metropolitan Opera conducting debut in November 2009 with the Patrice Chereau production of Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen serves as an advisor to The Sync Project, a global collaboration seeking to understand and harness music's effect on brain health.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen first guest-conducted the San Francisco Symphony in 2004.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen returned for guest-conducting appearances in 2012 and 2015.
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In 2014 Esa-Pekka Salonen was part of an international television and web campaign for Apple, promoting iPad Air.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen did a concert with violinist Leila Josefowicz and the Philharmonia Orchestra in an Apple store in Berlin and spoke about mixing music and technology.
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When Igor Stravinsky's former Beverly Hills residence, at 1260 North Wetherly Drive, was put up for sale, Esa-Pekka Salonen strongly considered buying it.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen stated that after visiting the house and noting that indentations from Stravinsky's piano were still visible in the carpet, he was too intimidated by the prospect of trying to compose in the same house where Stravinsky had written such works as Symphony in Three Movements, the Concerto in D for Strings, The Rake's Progress, Orpheus, Agon, the Cantata, and the Mass.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen carried the Olympic flame on 26 July 2012, as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen has stated that his time in California has helped him to be more "free" in his compositions.
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When [Esa-Pekka Salonen] arrived in Los Angeles, he still liked to consider himself a composer-conductor, but the truth was that he had stopped writing music.
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In 2001, Esa-Pekka Salonen composed Foreign Bodies, his largest work in terms of orchestration, which incorporated music from the opening movement of Dichotomie.
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World premiere details shown where available, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting unless otherwise shown.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen is renowned for his dedication to performing and recording contemporary music.