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Story of a friendship; talking about the cello pieces of Kaija Saariaho

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The Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen leads a busy career as a soloist and chamber-music player, performing extensively with many of the leading orchestras and musicians.

Anssi Karttunen performs all the standard cello works, has discovered many forgotten masterpieces and transcribed numerous pieces for cello, or chamber ensembles. He is a passionate advocate of contemporary music and his collaboration with composers has led him to give over 210 world premieres of works by composers as diverse as Magnus Lindberg, Kaija Saariaho, Pascal Dusapin, Luca Francesconi and Tan Dun.

Karttunen has premiered 31 works for cello and orchestra, among them: Magnus Lindberg's 2 Cello Concertos, Esa-Pekka Salonen's Concerto "Mania", Tan Dun's Cello Concerto "Yi1", Luca Francesconi's Cello Concerto "Rest" or Jukka Tiensuu's "Oire". Kaija Saariaho's Concerto "Notes on Light" was a Boston Symphony Orchestra commission for Anssi Karttunen. In October 2018 he gave the premiere of Betsy Jolas's "Side Roads" with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Read more...

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