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WEDNESDAY SERIES 14 Helsinki Music Centre at 19:00 YOUNG SOLOISTS CONCERT Dalia Stasevska, conductor Bernhard Henrik Crusell: Clarinet Concerto no. 2 in F minor, 1st movement 12 min Jussi Uuksulainen, clarinet Lars Erik Larsson: Concertino Op. 45/11, 3rd movement 5 min Severi Huhdanpää, double bass Max Bruch: Concerto for Violin and Viola in E minor, 1st movement 7 min Pippa Sieppala, violin and Charlotta Westerback, viola Väinö Hannikainen: Morceau de Concert Op. 7. 12 min Hilda Kunnola, harp Jean Sibelius: Humoresques no. 1 in D minor Op. 87/1 & no. 2 in D major Op. 87/2 7 min Lotus Tinat, violin INTERVAL 20 MIN 1 Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante no. 1 in D major Op. 4 6 min Emil Hartikainen, violin Carl Maria von Weber: Andante e Rondo ungarese Op. 35 9 min Áron Mojzer, bassoon Jules Demersseman: Fantaisie sur un thème original 7 min Juho Palonen, saxophone John Williams: Tuba Concerto, 1st movemen 7 min Joel Wendelin, tuba Paul Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher, 1st movement 8 min Kristian Sallinen, viola Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 47, 3rd movement 8 min Lina Leikola, violin Interval at about 19:55. The concert will end at about 21:10. Broadcast live on Yle Radio 1 and streamed at yle.fi/areena. A recording of the concert will be shown in the programme “RSO Musiikkitalossa” (The FRSO at the Helsinki Music Centre) on Yle Teema on 5.5. and 12.5. and on Yle TV 1 on 12.5. and 18.5. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR MOBILE PHONE IS SWITCHED OFF! Photographing, video and sound recording are prohibited during the concert. 2 DALIA STASEVSKA JUSSI UUKSULAINEN Born in Ukraine, Dalia Stasevska is one (b. 2000) has been playing the clari- of the young conductors most in de- net since he was nine and is nowadays mand at the moment. She will short- studying at the Sibelius Academy’s ly begin her term as Principal Guest Junior Academy with Christoffer Conductor of the BBC Symphony Sundqvist. He has attended many Orchestra and will be making her de- masterclasses, with Yehuda Gilad, but with the orchestra in her new role Björn Nyman, Emil Jonason and others. at the Proms in July. He plays as much chamber music as In addition to the orchestras in possible, and in several orchestras. His Finland, where she has lived since ensemble won third prize in the Erkki she was five, Dalia Stasevska has con- Melartin Chamber Music Competition ducted many of the Nordic orchestras in 2016 and he was awarded a grant (Oslo, Stockholm and Gothenburg, for from the Pro Musica Foundation in example), the BBC Symphony, the or- spring 2018. chestra of Opera North, the Strasbourg Philharmonic and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. This season’s de- SEVERI HUHDANPÄÄ buts include appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre is 12 and a pupil at the East Helsinki National de Lyon and the Adelaide Music Institute. He has been playing Symphony Orchestra. In December the double bass since 2013, is in grade 2018 she conducted the Royal 6 at the musically-oriented Porolahti Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at School and plays with the Helsinki the Nobel Prize Ceremony. She has a Children’s Strings. In addition to tradi- particular liking for 20th-century and tional classical music he enjoys impro- contemporary music and has been in- vising. He has attended classes in im- volved in many projects spanning tra- provisation with Matthew Barley and ditional musical genres. in Baroque improvisation with David Also an active opera conductor, Dalia Dolan. In 2017, he was one of the so- Stasevska has conducted Janáček’s loists in the Helsinki Philharmonic The Cunning Little Vixen at the Orchestra’s junior concert. In his free Finnish National Opera and Lucia di time he likes drawing, cycling, tennis Lammermoor at Norske Opera. At the and playing the electric bass. Music is, end of March she made her debut at for him, not just a hobby; it’s a way of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm life. (Don Giovanni), to be followed by the Toulon Opera (Eugene Onegin) in May. 3 PIPPA SIEPPALA Strings and the Youth Academy of the Finnish Chamber Orchestra. In (b. 2001) was five when she was 2018, she took part in the Amsterdam first taught the violin by her moth- Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Side er. She has been a student at the by Side project. She has also been a Violin Academy since 2010, at the member of the Helsinki Philharmonic Turku Conservatory 2010–2015 and Orchestra’s master-apprentice train- the Helsinki Conservatory since 2015. ing scheme since the beginning of She has also attended masterclass- this year. She has played chamber mu- es with Tero Latvala, Barbara Doll, sic in the Luminoso String Quartet Yair Kless and Philippe Honoré. Pippa since 2009 and has been the soloist was a Young Soloist with the Turku in the Young Soloists concert of the Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013 and Wegelius Chamber Strings and Jorma 2015, a finalist in the Jyväskylä Violin Panula’s Voluntas Chamber Orchestra. Competition in 2016, won the third prize in the same competition in 2019, has been a soloist with the Jyväskylä HILDA KUNNOLA Sinfonia and was a Young Soloist with the Wegelius Chamber Strings (b. 2000) began taking harp lessons at in 2017. She was awarded the Oleg the Turku Conservatory when she was Kagan memorial prize at the 2017 nine. She has been studying at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and Sibelius Academy’s Junior Academy was Young Musician at the British Isles since 2014 and in masterclasses with Music Festival in 2018. Pippa has been Gabriella Bosio, Letizia Belmondo, a member of the Luminoso Quartet Gwyneth Wentink, Sivan Magen and since 2016. others. She has played chamber music under the guidance of leading Finnish musicians and in 2017 of Catherine CHARLOT TA Michel at the Musica Mundi festival. WESTERBACK Orchestral playing is also close to her heart, and she has played with the (b. 1999) has been playing the vio- Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola la since she was seven, entered the Sinfonietta and the Norwegian Young Sibelius Academy’s Junior Academy Philharmonic. In 2017, she won third in 2016 and proceeded to profession- prize in the Stockholm International al studies in 2018. Her teachers in Music Competition and early this year masterclasses have included Tabea she was nominated for young instru- Zimmerman, Yuval Gotlibovich, Garth mentalist of the year in the finals of Knox and others. She began play- the Tempo Prize. She has received ing in her Music Institute orchestra a grant from the Finnish Cultural at an early age and has also been a Foundation for the purchase of a Lyon member of the Wegelius Chamber & Healy 23 harp. 4 LOTUS TINAT rience both in Finland and abroad (the FRSO, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (b. 2000) had been playing the violin Orchestra and the Finnish National for two years when, aged seven, she Opera Orchestra), actively attends in- entered the Helsinki Conservatory. She ternational festivals and is the founder is now studying in the class of Kaija of the Balder Quartet accepted for the Saarikettu at the Sibelius Academy Kuhmo Quartet Academy. Emil plays a and has received master tuition from Gaillard violin of 1867 owned by the OP Hagai Shaham, Lucie Robert, Jari Valo Art Foundation. and others. She was a finalist in the Juhani Heinonen Violin Competition in 2012 and won third prize in the in- ÁRON MOJZER ternational Young Musician competi- tion in Tallinn in 2013. Lotus has been was born in Rovaniemi in Finnish the soloist with Helsinki Concordia, Lapland in 1997 and has been playing the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra the bassoon since he was 12. Only two and the Sibelius Academy Conductors’ years later, he appeared in the ranks Orchestra and has experience of both of the Vivo Youth Orchestra. He has chamber music and orchestral playing. played in orchestras under such ce- Among other things, she took part lebrated Finnish conductors as John in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Storgårds, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Hannu Orchestra’s Side by Side project in au- Lintu, Susanna Mälkki, Jukka-Pekka tumn 2018. Saraste and Leif Segerstam and furt- hered his studies in masterclasses with Dag Jensen, Mathias Racz, Ole-Kristian EMIL HARTIKAINEN Dahl, Jaakko Luoma, Carlo Colombo and Gustavo Núñez. He has given (b. 2003) comes from Espoo and has solo recitals, mostly in Finland and been a pupil of Réka Szilvay at the Hungary. In autumn 2018, Áron was Sibelius Academy’s Junior Academy the soloist with the Sibelius Academy since 2016. He has also attended Chamber Orchestra conducted by many masterclasses and reaped suc- Gérald Korsten. He is at present stu- cess in international competitions in dying in the bassoon class of Jussi Finland, Estonia, Russia, Belgium and Särkkä at the Sibelius Academy. the United States. During the pres- ent season he has been the soloist at such prestigious venues as Kuhmo JUHO PALONEN Chamber Music, La Fenice in Venice, the Carnegie and Lincoln Halls in the is 16 and has been playing the saxo- United States and at the opening of phone for eight years. He has been the Black and White festival in Imatra, studying in the Sibelius Academy’s Finland. He has gained orchestral expe- Junior Academy since autumn 2018 5 and has attended masterclasses with has conducted several symphony or- Christian Wirth and Simon Diricq. He chestras in Finland and other parts of has twice been the soloist with the wind Europe. Kristian won third prize in the orchestra in his home town, Hyvinkää, Tampere National Viola Competition in playing Demersseman’s Fantasia and 2017, along with the prize for a talent- other works, and has twice won the ed young participant and the best per- Partaharju solo competition.