Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen: ; born June 30, 1958) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Composer-In-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, and Artistic Director and cofounder of the Baltic Sea Festival...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 June 1958
CountryFinland
nice character thinking
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
discovery joy musical
Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.
want kind these-days
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
years pleasure i-can
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.
lessons conducting i-realized
I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.
couple attitude moving
Lots of really interesting people move to U.S and decide to work here, because of this whole attitude and openness. I'm absolutely convinced that this is just the beginning. In a couple decades we will see an even more dramatic change.
flukes conducting happened
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
years creative trying
I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.
training culture asking
Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
religious thinking ideas
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.
cities differences competition
The biggest difference between U.S and most European big cities is that in a place like London, for instance, there are five orchestras, and there's a bloody competition between these five orchestras.
classic moments term
I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.
world classical-music certain
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
suits riding bikers
There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.