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
functions los people
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
barely hall quietly scary seats
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
composer very-happy feels
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
ravel ive-learned masters
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
firsts hills higher
Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
live-concerts understanding progress
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
problem conducting composing
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
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.
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.
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.
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.