- Orquesta de Cámara Avanti!
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The Avanti! Chamber Orchestra is a Finn ensemble that focuses on contemporary music, the ensemble itself varies in size from a solo player to a symphony orchestra. Avanti! Chamber Orchestra won the Gramophone Prize with their first recording. Avanti! Chamber Orchestra helds also a music festival of its own each summer.
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The organization
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1983 at the initiative of conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste and flautist Olli Pohjola. It is an ensemble that varies in size from a solo player to a symphony orchestra. It does not specialize in a particular genre, but they have a special veneration for contemporary music.[1][2] As an example of this, HumppAvanti!, was a collaboration with the musician Timo Hietala, which has a result a mix of popular and folk music elements.[2]
Their first recording won them the Gramophone Prize of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE).[2]
The orchestra frequently works with leading Finnish conductors and with internationally renowned soloists and conductors like Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, Ralf Gothoni, Gidon Kremer and Charles Neidich.[2]
Since the late 1990s the festival has invited a different Artistic Director each year, such as Cellist Anssi Karttunen,Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kari Kriikku, John Storgårds, Magnus Lindberg, Jouni Kaipainen, Hannu Lintu, Kaija Saariaho, Oliver Knussen, Kirmo Lintinen and Seppo Kimanen.[1]
Since 1998 the artistic director of Avanti! has been the remarkable Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku, himself nominated for the Nordic Council’s Music Prize in 2001.[1]
Summer Sounds Festival
Since 1986, the orchestra has held a music festival of its own every summer in Porvoo named Summer Sounds. For the earliest festivals, various ideas were pooled. There are still traces of the original unfettered vision in the unexpected twists in the repertoire.[1][2]
The festival presents chamber music and orchestral concerts, events for children with and international soloists and conductors. The artistic director of the festival invites every year a foreign Guest Composer to present his or her work to the Finnish audience.[3]
Discography
Kriikku, Luoma, Mälkki, Avanti!
Avanti! presents Humppavanti!
Wennäkoski, Avanti!
Kriikku, Avanti!
Kriikku, Saraste, FRSO, Avanti!
Oramo, Avanti!
Avanti! Quartet CD
Saraste, Avanti!, Bavarian RSO
Saraste, Avanti!
Kriikku, Avanti!
Angervo, Saraste, Salonen, Avanti!
Saraste, Avanti!
Waltari, Niemi, Avanti!
Lintu, Komsi, Avanti!
Kriikku, Karttunen, Avanti! Kvartetti (eng. Avanti! Quartet) [4]
References
- ^ a b c d "Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras". http://www.sinfoniaorkesterit.fi/en/index.php?trg=member&id=55&q=&ord=cat. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Avanti Chamber Orchestra". http://www.norden.org/en/nordic-council/the-nordic-council-prizes/music-prize/previous-prize-winners-and-nominees/nominations-2005/avanti-chamber-orchestra. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
- ^ "KadmusArts". http://kadmusarts.com/festivals/842.html. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
- ^ "Discography". http://www.avantimusic.fi/index.php?id=41#levy3. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
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