Esa-Pekka Salonen Explained

Esa-Pekka Salonen
Birth Date:30 June 1958
Birth Place:Helsinki, Finland
Years Active:1979–present
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    Esa-Pekka Salonen (in Finnish pronounced as /ˈesɑˌpekːɑ ˈsɑlonen/; born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the music director of the San Francisco Symphony and conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, he announced his resignation from the San Francisco Symphony upon the expiration of his contract in 2025.

    Life and career

    Early work

    Born in Helsinki, Finland, Salonen graduated from Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu (SYK), one of the top high schools in Finland, in 1977[1] and then went to study horn and composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, as well as conducting with Jorma Panula. His conducting classmates included Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Osmo Vänskä.Another classmate on the composition side was the composer Magnus Lindberg and together they formed the new-music appreciation group Korvat auki ("Ears open" in the Finnish language) and the experimental ensemble Toimii (lit. "It works"). Later, Salonen studied with the composers Franco Donatoni, Niccolò Castiglioni, and Einojuhani Rautavaara.

    His first experience with conducting came in 1979 with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, though he still thought of himself principally as a composer; in fact, Salonen has said that he took up conducting primarily to ensure that someone would conduct his own compositions. In 1983, however, he replaced an indisposed Michael Tilson Thomas to conduct a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London on very short notice, without ever having studied the score, and it launched his career as a conductor.[2] He was subsequently principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia from 1985 to 1994.

    Salonen was principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1995. He co-founded the Baltic Sea Festival in 2003 with and Valery Gergiev. This summer music festival presents new classical music and aims to bring the countries around the Baltic Sea together and to raise awareness of environmental deterioration of the Baltic. It continues to be held annually in one of the region's countries.[3]

    Los Angeles Philharmonic

    Salonen made his conducting debut in the United States with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1984. He said:

    In 1989, he was offered the title of Principal Guest Conductor by Executive VP Ernest Fleischmann and was to take the orchestra on a tour of Japan; however, controversy ensued when André Previn, the orchestra's music director at the time, was not consulted on either the Principal Guest appointment or the tour, and objected to both. Continued friction between Fleischmann and Previn led to Previn's resignation in April 1989.[4] Four months later, Salonen was named the orchestra's tenth music director, officially taking the post in 1992 and holding it until 2009.

    Salonen's tenure with the orchestra began with a residency at the 1992 Salzburg Festival in concert performances and as the pit orchestra in a production of the opera Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen; it was the first time an American orchestra was given that opportunity. Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts to complete construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

    Under Salonen's leadership, the Philharmonic became an extremely progressive and well-regarded orchestra. Alex Ross of The New Yorker said this:

    In 2007, Salonen and the orchestra announced the conclusion of his music directorship in 2009, with Gustavo Dudamel taking his place.[5] [6] [7] [8]

    Before Salonen's last concert as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 19 April 2009, the orchestra announced his appointment as its first Conductor Laureate.[9] In addition, the LA Philharmonic created the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund "for the express purpose of supporting the commissioning and performance of new works" as a way to honor his support of contemporary classical music during his tenure as music director. At its inception, it was endowed with $1.5 million.[10] [11]

    During Salonen's tenure as music director, the orchestra gave 120 pieces their world or American debuts and commissioned over 54 new works. By the time he stepped down, he had served as music director longer than anyone else in the orchestra's history, leading the orchestra in 973 concerts and 23 tours.[12] [13]

    Philharmonia and subsequent career

    In November 2006, the Philharmonia Orchestra announced the appointment of Salonen as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor at the beginning of the 2008–2009 season.[14] His initial contract was for 3 years. Salonen has conducted several commercial recordings with the Philharmonia, including music of Berlioz and Schönberg.[15] In November 2010, the Philharmonia announced the extension of Salonen's contract to 2014.[16] In September 2013 the orchestra announced the further extension of Salonen's contract through the 2016–2017 season.[17] In December 2018 the Philharmonia announced that Salonen would conclude his principal conductorship of the orchestra after the 2020–2021 season.[18]

    Salonen made his Metropolitan Opera conducting debut in November 2009 with the Patrice Chéreau production of Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead.[19]

    In 2012 his violin concerto written for Leila Josefowicz won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.[20] In March 2014 he was awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition by the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. The award includes a $100,000 cash prize, a residency of four nonconsecutive weeks at the school over the next two years, and a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[21] In the same spring he was also awarded the first creative chair at the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich for the 2014–2015 season. This post included lectures, workshops, but, most significantly, the commissioning of Karawane, a new piece for orchestra and chorus based on Hugo Ball's dada poetry and the performance of nine other Salonen pieces throughout the season.[22]

    In autumn 2015 Salonen began a three-season appointment as composer-in-residence of the New York Philharmonic.[23] He serves as an advisor to The Sync Project, a global collaboration seeking to understand and harness music's effect on brain health.[24] In August 2016 Salonen was named the first artist in association with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.[25]

    Salonen first guest-conducted the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in 2004. He returned for guest-conducting appearances in 2012 and 2015. In December 2018 the SFS announced the appointment of Salonen as its next music director, effective with the 2020–2021 season, with an initial contract of five seasons.[26] [27]

    In March 2024, Salonen announced that he would be leaving the San Francisco Symphony when his contract expires in 2025, stating that "I do not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the Board of Governors does."[28] [29] Some SFS patrons expressed support for Salonen and displeasure with the board's direction.[30]

    Digital projects

    Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra have worked on multi-disciplinary festivals together, including Woven Words: Music begins where words end to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Witold Lutosławski, Salonen's mentor.[31] They also created the award-winning RE-RITE installation, which was first exhibited in London in 2009 and has since travelled to Portugal, China, Turkey, Germany, and Austria. The digital residency allows members of the public to conduct, play and step inside the Philharmonia Orchestra with Salonen through audio and video projections of musicians performing The Rite of Spring.[32] They followed-up with another installation, Universe of Sound, which was based on Gustav Holst's The Planets, debuted at London's Science Museum,[33] and won the 2012 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement.[34] Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, in partnership with Music Sales Group, Rite Digital, and Touch Press, released a successful iPad app, "The Orchestra". Slate called the interactive tour through orchestral history "the perfect classical music app."[35] In the autumn of 2016 the Philharmonia Orchestra launched a digital takeover of the Southbank Centre, featuring the first major virtual-reality production from a UK symphony orchestra.[36]

    Apple campaign

    In 2014 Salonen was part of an international television and web campaign for Apple, promoting iPad Air.[37] The campaign included not only the ad itself,[38] but also discussions with Salonen on classical music,[39] inspiration,[40] and composing.[41] Apple also offered a new and, for a limited time, free recording of Salonen's Grawemeyer prize-winning violin concerto, featuring the violinist Leila Josefowicz and the Philharmonia Orchestra, 20 of Salonen's classical music picks on the iTunes Store classical music page, 15 of Salonen's iPad app picks in the app store, and a guest DJ station on iTunes Radio.

    The ad was noted for "the novelty of seeing a contemporary classical composer in a piece of mainstream advertising,"[42] for the synchronisation of the video editing with the score, and for the positive portrayal of classical music as compared to its typical pop cultural image.[43] Salonen also led a concert with violinist Leila Josefowicz and the Philharmonia Orchestra in an Apple store in Berlin and spoke about mixing music and technology. It was the first time that a full orchestra had performed in an Apple store.[44]

    In the summer of 2015 Salonen spoke on the uses of technology in music education to a group of Apple Distinguished Educators.[45]

    Personal life

    Salonen married Kaarina Gould in 2021.[46] Salonen was previously married to Jane Price, a former musician with the Philharmonia Orchestra, with who he had three children: daughters Ella Aneira and Anja Sofia, and son Oliver.[47] [48] The couple separated in 2017[27] and filed for divorce in June 2018 after 26 years of marriage.[49] [50]

    When Igor Stravinsky's former Beverly Hills residence, at 1260 North Wetherly Drive, was put up for sale, Salonen strongly considered buying it. He stated, however, 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.[51] [52]

    Honours and awards

    In April 2010, Salonen was elected a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[53] In May 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, and later the same day spoke at the graduation ceremony for the USC Thornton School of Music.[54] Salonen carried the Olympic flame on 26 July 2012, as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.[55] In December 2020, he was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), for services to music and UK-Finland relations.[56] He was the conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2023 Nobel Prize Concert.[57] In 2024, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize alongside Nile Rodgers.[58]

    Career highlights

    Composing

    Salonen's compositions include his Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (auf den ersten Blick und ohne zu wissen) (1980, with a title taken from Franz Kafka's The Trial), Floof for soprano and ensemble (1982, on texts by Stanisław Lem) and the orchestral L.A. Variations (1996).

    Salonen has stated that his time in California has helped him to be more "free" in his compositions. Mark Swed, chief music critic of the Los Angeles Times, described it this way:

    When [Salonen] arrived in Los Angeles, he still liked to consider himself a composer-conductor, but the truth was that he had stopped writing music. "The obvious and easy explanation for me to give to people when they were asking why there hadn't been any new pieces for a while was that I had been conducting so much, I had no time," he said. "But that was only half the explanation."

    As a European Modernist, Salonen said, he had been inculcated with negatives, such as to avoid melody, harmonic identity and rhythmic pulse. Secretly, though, he was attracted to John Adams, who was then dismissed overseas as being simplistic. "Only after a couple of years here did I begin to see that the European canon I blindly accepted was not the only truth," he said. "Over here, I was able to think about this rule that forbids melody. It's madness. Madness!"

    Without a European musical elite looking over his shoulder, Salonen began to feel that it was fine to have his own ideas. "My focus moved from an ideological principle to a pleasure principle" is how he described the composition of his breakthrough piece, "LA Variations," which the Philharmonic premiered in 1997.

    Although a work of great intricacy and virtuosity that doesn't ignore Salonen's Modernist training, "LA Variations" builds on rhythmic innovations closer to Adams. The piece proved an immediate hit, so much so that Salonen was stunned by the reaction and then by the score's continuing success – it has been taken up by several other conductors and had more than 80 performances worldwide.

    In order to devote more time to composition, Salonen took a year's sabbatical from conducting in 2000, during which time he wrote a work for solo horn (Concert Étude, the competition piece for Lieksa Brass Week), Dichotomie for pianist Gloria Cheng, Mania for the cellist Anssi Karttunen and sinfonietta, and Gambit, an orchestral piece that was a birthday present for fellow composer and friend Magnus Lindberg.

    In 2001, Salonen composed Foreign Bodies, his largest work in terms of orchestration, which incorporated music from the opening movement of Dichotomie. Another orchestral piece, Insomnia, followed in 2002, and another, Wing on Wing, in 2004. Wing on Wing includes parts for two sopranos and distorted samples of architect Frank Gehry's voice as well as a fish.

    As is apparent with his interpretations of such avant-garde works as Jan Sandström's Motorbike Odyssey, Salonen voices a distaste for ideological and dogmatic approaches to composition and sees music creation as deeply physical. In the liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon's release of Wing On Wing, he is quoted saying "Musical expression is bodily expression, there is no abstract cerebral expression in my opinion. It all comes out of the body." A recurring theme in his music is the fusion of or relationship between the mechanical and the organic.[63]

    Salonen has among his intended composing projects a proposed opera based on the novel The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg.

    Compositions

    World premiere details shown where available, Salonen conducting unless otherwise shown[64]

    Orchestral

    Concertante

    Choral/Vocal

    Chamber/Instrumental

    Selected world premiere performances

    In addition to conducting his own compositions, Salonen has actively championed other composers' music, most notably Anders Hillborg, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, and Steven Stucky. Many noteworthy compositions have even been dedicated to Salonen. Below is a list of some of the world premieres that he has conducted:

    John Adams
    Samuel Adams
    Louis Andriessen
    Anna Clyne
    John Corigliano
    Franco Donatoni
    Anders Hillborg
    William Kraft
    Peter Lieberson
    Magnus Lindberg
    Larry Lipkis
    Steven Mackey
    Colin Matthews
    David Newman
    Gabriela Ortiz
    Arvo Pärt
    Joseph Phibbs
    Bernard Rands
    Roger Reynolds
    Kaija Saariaho
    Rodion Shchedrin
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Roberto Sierra
    Steven Stucky
    Augusta Read Thomas
    Mark-Anthony Turnage

    Recordings

    Salonen is renowned for his dedication to performing and recording contemporary music. His 1985 recording of Witold Lutosławski's Symphony No. 3 won the 1985 Gramophone Award, the Grammy Award, and a Caecilia Prize for Best Contemporary Recording. He later recorded Lutosławski's Symphony No. 4 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, once for Sony Classical, and later in a live recording at Walt Disney Concert Hall for Deutsche Grammophon. He also worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra to record the complete works of György Ligeti for Sony Classical, but the project was left unfinished due to lack of funding.

    Best-known recordings

    Violin Concerto in D Minor, Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto – Hilary Hahn, solo violin; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Deutsche Grammophon B0011WMWUW – Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)[75]

    With Los Angeles Philharmonic

    Deutsche Grammophon

    Suite, The Miraculous Mandarin

    St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (original version)

    The Rite of Spring

    DG Concerts — recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Symphony No. 5

    La mer

    El amor brujo

    Eleven Gates (world premiere recording)

    Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber

    Music for Prague 1968

    Concert românesc

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Iron Foundry

    Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles" (world premiere recording)

    Suite from Romeo & Juliet

    Ma mère l'Oye

    Symphony No. 2 in D major for orchestra, Op. 43

    Music from Lady Macbeth of Mtensk District

    The Firebird

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prelude

    ECM

    Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"

    Nonesuch

    Naïve and Sentimental Music

    Ondine

    Du cristal ...

    ... à la fumée (Petri Alanko, alto flute; Anssi Karttunen, cello)

    Philips Classics

    Violin Concerto No. 2 (Viktoria Mullova, violin)

    Violin Concerto (Viktoria Mullova, violin)

    Sony Classical

    Transcriptions (by Elgar, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stokowski, Webern)

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Symphony No. 4, "Romantic"

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Janet Ferguson, flute)

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Joshua Bell, violin)

    Excerpts, Torn Curtain

    Mathis der Maler (symphony)

    Symphony No. 1

    Symphony No. 3 (Anna Larsson, contralto; Ralph Sauer, trombone; Donald Green, posthorn; Martin Chalifour, violin; Paulist Boy Choristers of California, Women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale)

    All Rise (Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; Paul Smith Singers; Northridge Singers of California State University; Morgan State University Choir)

    Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Cho-Liang Lin, violin)

    Homenaje a Federico García Lorca

    Piano Concerto No. 1 (Yefim Bronfman, piano; Thomas Stevens, trumpet)

    Finlandia

    Violin Concerto (Cho-Liang Lin, violin)

    Other orchestras

    Philharmonia recordings

    Prologue to "Orango" (World Premiere Recording) and Symphony No 4

    Symphony No 9

    Symphonie Fantastique, Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture

    Gurrelieder

    Piano Concertos 1 & 2 and Sonata in B minor (Emanuel Ax, piano)

    Piano Concertos 2 & 3 (Yefim Bronfman, piano)

    Cantigas, Cello Concerto, Parada, & Fresco (Anssi Karttunen, cello)

    The Firebird & The Rite of Spring

    Le Grand Macabre

    Piano Concerto, Op. 42, Franz Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Emanuel Ax, piano)

    Petrouchka & Orpheus

    Concerto No 2 for trumpet & Concertino for trumpet, string orchestra & piano, Henri Tomasi: Concerto for trumpet & orchestra (Wynton Marsalis, trumpet)

    Turangalîla-Symphonie, Witold Lutosławski: Symphony No 3 (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Crossley, piano, John Shirley-Quirk, baritone)

    Symphony No 5, Op, 82 and Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49

    San Francisco Symphony recordings

    Piano Concerto No. 1 (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano)

    Kongsgaard Variations

    Clocks and Clouds

    Sleep & Unremembrance

    Pines of Rome

    Symphony No. 5

    The Rite of Spring

    Oslo Philharmonic recordings

    Peer Gynt, with Barbara Hendricks, Sony Classical Masters, SK 44528, 1993

    Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra recordings

    Romeo & Juliet

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra recordings

    La Passion de Simone (Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Tapiola Chamber Choir)

    Piano Concerto & Kraft (Toimii Ensemble)

    Château de l'âme, Graal Théâtre & Amers (BBC Symphony Orchestra, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Gidon Kremer, violin, Anssi Karttunen, cello)

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra recordings

    The Rake's Progress (Barbara Hendricks, soprano, Håkan Hagegård, actor, Greg Fedderly, tenor)

    Violin Concerto, Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Philharmonia Orchestra, Cho-Liang Lin, violin)

    Credo (Hélène Grimaud, piano)

    Clarinet Concerto, Liquid Marble, & Violin Concerto (Martin Fröst, clarinet, Anna Lindal, violin)

    Il Prigioniero & Canti di Prigiona

    Action, Situation, Signification, & Kraft (Toimii Ensemble)

    God in Disguise, Pastoral Suite, & Violin Concerto (Arve Tellefsen, violin, Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano, Håkan Hagegård, baritone)

    Symphonies 3 & 4 (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra)

    Serenade, Op. 31, Midwinter, Op. 24, Chitra, Op. 43

    Avanti! Chamber Orchestra recordings

    De Tartuffe, Je crois, Linea d'ombra, Zona, & Ritratto

    10 Pieces for Orchestra, Paavo Heininen: Musique d'été, Op. 11, Magnus Lindberg: Rittrato (other conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Ari Angervo)

    London Sinfonietta recordings

    Away, Amanhacendo Liberdade, Circle Wind, Deusa, Sky Dance, Asa Delta, Rapaziada, Nightflower, Save the Earth (Endymion (ensemble))

    Kammermusik No. 3, Op. 36, No. 2, Aarre Merikanto: Konzertstück, Magnus Lindberg: Zona, Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Canto di Speranza (Anssi Karttunen, cello)

    To the Edge of Dream, Toward the Sea, Vers, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Palma, & Folios for Guitar

    Pulcinella, Octet, Renard, & Ragtime

    Des canyons aux étoiles, Couleurs de la cité céleste, & Oiseaux exotiques (Paul Crossley, piano)

    Stockholm Chamber Orchestra recordings

    Transfigured Night, Op. 4 & String Quartet No. 2 (Faye Robinson, soprano)

    Fragments of a Circle, Bowijaw, Shadows that in the Darkness Dwell, & Guggi-guggi for trombone & tape

    Apollon Musagète, Concerto in D, & Cantata (London Sinfonietta, (orchestra & chorus), Ulf Forsberg, violin, Yvonne Kenny, soprano, John Aler, tenor)

    Symphonies 22, 78 & 82

    Prelude to Capriccio, Op. 85, Concertino for clarinet, bassoon & string orchestra, & Metamorphosen (Paul Meyer (clarinetist), Knut Sonstevold, bassoon)

    Stockholm Sinfonietta recordings
    Staatskapelle Dresden recordings

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, Clara Schumann: 3 Lieder, Op. 12 & Am Strande, Johannes Brahms: Sonata for cello & piano, No. 1, Op. 38 & 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79 (Hélène Grimaud, piano)

    Finnish National Opera recordings

    L'Amour de loin (Peter Sellers, director, Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano, Gerald Finley, baritone)

    Other recordings of Salonen works

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Kapellimestari Esa-Pekka Salosen salainen ase on taito säveltää – Musiikin syntymäpäiväkalenteri. yle.fi. 30 June 2019 .
    2. News: LA Variation. The Guardian. Nicholas Wroe. 27 January 2007. 13 April 2007.
    3. Web site: Festival: Baltic Sea Festival. Bachtrack. 15 August 2014.
    4. News: The Tyrant of Philharmonic . Los Angeles Times . Martin Bernheimer . 8 October 1989.
    5. News: From the Archives: Maestro will pass baton to up-and-comer in '09 . Los Angeles Times . Mark Swed . 8 April 2007 . 30 June 2024 .
    6. News: Gustavo Dudamel to Replace Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009. Playbill Arts. Matthew Westphal. 8 April 2007. 13 April 2007.
    7. News: L.A. Philharmonic warms to Gustavo Dudamel . Los Angeles Times . Diane Haithman . 9 April 2007 . 13 April 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090422044841/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-phil9apr09%2C1%2C1890308.story . 22 April 2009 .
    8. News: Salonen passing L.A. Phil baton to Dudamel. Los Angeles Daily News. David Mermelstein. 9 April 2007. 13 April 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201533/http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_5627646. 30 September 2007.
    9. Web site: Los Angeles Philharmonic creates new honor for Esa-Pekka Salonen. Los Angeles Philharmonic. 19 April 2009. 26 August 2009.
    10. Web site: Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund. Los Angeles Philharmonic. 26 August 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091004011440/http://www.laphil.com/support/salonenfund.cfm. 4 October 2009.
    11. News: Adieu: Esa-Pekka Salonen ends his reign at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The New Yorker. Alex Ross. Alex Ross (music critic). 4 May 2009. 26 August 2009.
    12. Web site: The Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates Salonen as he concludes his tenure as Music Director with five world premieres, including his own violin concerto, and a final weekend of works by Stravinsky. Los Angeles Philharmonic. 7 April 2009. 26 August 2009.
    13. News: Esa-Pekka Salonen exits on a high note . Los Angeles Times . Timothy Rutten . 20 April 2009 . 26 August 2009.
    14. Web site: Philharmonia Orchestra Announces Salonen As Principal Conductor . 17 June 2007.
    15. News: Schoenberg: Gurrelieder: Isokoski/Groop/Sukowa/Andersen/CBSO Chorus/Philharmonia Voices/Philharmonia/Salonen . The Guardian . Tim Ashley . 9 October 2009 . 6 November 2010.
    16. News: Esa-Pekka Salonen: 'Start again. That was disgusting' . The Guardian . Martin Kettle . 2 November 2010 . 6 November 2010.
    17. Esa-Pekka Salonen: Contract Marks 30th Anniversary with Philharmonia Orchestra . Philharmonia Orchestra . 26 September 2013 . 30 September 2013 . 25 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025134955/http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/assets/files/1693/2013_salonen_contract_extension.pdf . dead .
    18. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra announce 2020/21 as Salonen's final season as Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor . Philharmonia Orchestra . 4 December 2018 . 5 December 2018.
    19. News: Two Debuts, Overdue and Overwhelming. The New York Times. Anthony Tommasini. Anthony Tommasini. 13 November 2009. 2 May 2010.
    20. Web site: Salonen's Violin Concerto wins Grawemeyer music award. The Grawemeyer Awards. 12 August 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141018232415/http://grawemeyer.org/news-updates/salonen2019s-2018violin-concerto2019-wins-grawemeyer-music-award. 18 October 2014.
    21. News: Esa-Pekka Salonen Wins $100,000 Composition Prize. The New York Times. Allan Kozinn. Allan Kozinn. 10 March 2014. 14 May 2014.
    22. News: Salonen Will Hear Lots of His Own Music in New Zurich Post. The New York Times. Allan Kozinn. Allan Kozinn. 1 April 2014. 14 May 2014.
    23. Web site: Salonen Residency Kicks Off with LA Variations Sept. 25–26. New York Philharmonic. 27 October 2021.
    24. Web site: The Sync Project Added 4 Musicians to Its Board – Including Peter Gabriel. BostInno. 28 September 2016.
    25. Web site: Finnish National Opera and Ballet appoints Salonen as artist-in-association – Rhinegold. en-US. 28 September 2016.
    26. Esa-Pekka Salonen named next Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony . San Francisco Symphony . 5 December 2018 . 5 December 2018 .
    27. News: Esa-Pekka Salonen to succeed Michael Tilson Thomas as SF Symphony music director . San Francisco Chronicle . Joshua Kosman . 5 December 2018 . 5 December 2018.
    28. News: Hernández . Javier C. . 2024-03-14 . San Francisco Symphony’s Maestro to Step Down, Citing Split With Board . 2024-03-14 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
    29. Web site: Veltman . Chloe . March 14, 2024 . San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen resigns . https://web.archive.org/web/20240314232234/https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238678686/san-francisco-symphony-music-director-esa-pekka-salonen-resigns . March 14, 2024 . May 22, 2024.
    30. News: Kukura . Joe . SF Symphony Audience Member Threatened With Ban From Concert Hall for Holding Up Vulgar Sign (in Finnish) . 2 July 2024 . . 2 July 2024.
    31. Web site: Woven Words. Philharmonia Orchestra. 15 August 2014.
    32. News: Pering. Emma. iOrchestra Presents….. re-rite. 15 August 2014. What's On. 1 June 2014.
    33. News: Coates. Anne. Science Museum hosts Universe of Sound: a virtual Philharmonia Ochestra. 15 August 2014. Parenting Without Tears. 2 June 2012.
    34. Web site: 2012: Audiences and Engagement. Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. 15 August 2014.
    35. News: Walls. Seth Colter. The Perfect Classical Music App. 15 August 2014. Slate. 21 December 2012.
    36. News: Tilden. Imogen. Life, the universe and virtual reality: Southbank unveils classical season. 15 July 2016. The Guardian. 28 January 2016.
    37. Web site: Esa-Pekka Salonen orchestrates a new sound.. Apple. 30 June 2014.
    38. Web site: Esa Pekka's Verse. YouTube. 30 June 2014.
    39. Web site: Esa-Pekka on classical music. YouTube. 30 June 2014.
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