CONDUCTOR / COMPOSER / DIRECTOR / PIANO
Olli Mustonen is in Slovakia this week as the main guest of the Konvergencie festival in Bratislava. For their ninth winter edition the festival looks at the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in dialogue with the compositions of Olli Mustonen. “Olli Mustonen is an exceptional personality in the world of classical music. Like Mozart, he…Read more ›
Olli Mustonen’s most recent album of his Symphonies No. 2 & 3, featuring Ian Bostridge and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Olli himself, has been selected as Recording of the Month for Australian arts magazine Limelight. Describing his composition style, Limelight writes “A masterly musical chameleon, Mustonen uses his depth of stylistic knowledge…Read more ›
Olli Mustonen is back in Lapland as principal guest conductor of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra. He is conducting some of his own works, as well as being the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.19 in F major. He finishes the week with a piano recital, continuing his cycle series of Beethoven. This is the first…Read more ›
The new album, released today, comprises two of Olli Mustonen’s Symphonies: Symphony No. 2, “Johannes Angelos” and Symphony No. 3, “Taivaanvalot” (Heavenly Lights) performed by Turku Philharmonic Orchestra with Olli Mustonen himself conducting. Composing has always formed an integral part of the artistic life of pianist-conductor Olli Mustonen, and he first emerged as a symphonist…Read more ›
As Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Olli Mustonen starts the new season with the Turku Philharmonic and long-term friend and collaborator Steven Isserlis performing Britten’s Symphony for Cello and Orchestra and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 on the 7th and 8th of September. Olli then goes on Riga to conduct and play piano with Kremerata Balica…Read more ›
Today sees the release of the third Piano Concertos of Rautavaara and Martinů on BIS records, featuring Olli Mustonen with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Dalia Stasevska. Having recorded both concertos in January 2022, they performed the Rautavaara concerto in February 2023 in Lahti. Now available to buy and stream. https://bis.se/performers/mustonen-olli/rautavaara-martin-piano-concertos-no-3
This week, Olli Mustonen is seen in recital at the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo with a programme of Beethoven and Bach; the second of a pair of recitals this season combining those composers. Following that, he appears with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra. Under the baton of Kentaro Kawase, Mustonen performs Prokofiev’s third Piano…Read more ›
This week marks Olli Mustonen’s first week as Lapland Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor. This inaugural week sees Mustonen in his triple role as conductor, pianist and composer. In Rovaniemi (30 March) and Kuusamo (1 April), Mustonen joins the Orchestra for a programme including Schubert’s String Quartet in C minor, Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1,…Read more ›
This week, Olli Mustonen marks the end to his two seasons as the first Artist-in-Residence of the Camerata Zurich. This Sunday 19th March, Mustonen appears in triple role as conductor, pianist and composer, performing Rautavaara’s Pelimannit, Mustonen’s own Piano Quintet, Nielsen’s Little Suite and, joined by trumpeter Immanuel Richter, Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and…Read more ›
This week sees Olli Mustonen’s return to Tokyo, both in recital with his all-Beethoven programme and to perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Herbert Blomstedt. The concert on Wednesday 26th October will be broadcast live on NHK-FM radio and later on NHK TV.