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WEDNESDAY SERIES 6 Young Soloists Concert Helsinki Music Centre at 19.00

Hannu Lintu, conductor Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor II Allegro scherzando Alicia Ibañez-Resjan, piano

6 min

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 I Vorspiel Amanda Ernesaks, violin

9 min

Giovanni Bottesini: Fantasia on a Theme from Bellini’s La sonnambula Pauli Pappinen, double bass

9 min

Arild Plau: Concerto for Tuba and String Orchestra II Canzone I Prolog Ilkka Marttila, tuba

12 min

Daniel Schnyder: Subzero Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra II Sama'i Thaqil III Zoom out Danna Collette Nelson, bass trombone

11 min

INTERVAL

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Sergei Prokofiev: Sinfonia concertante I Andante Artturi Aalto, cello

11 min

Carl Maria von Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings 12 min in B-flat Major J. 182, Op. 34 II Fantasia. Adagio IV Rondo. Allegro giocoso Hanna Hujanen, clarinet Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 III Finale, Allegro energico – Presto Iidamari Ahonen, violin Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor III Allegro scherzando Tarmo Peltokoski, piano

Interval at about 20:05. The concert ends at about 21:40. Broadcast live on Yle Radio 1 and online at yle.fi/rso.

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7 min

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ALICIA IBAÑEZ-RESJAN

the soloist with several orchestras and appeared in chamber ensembles at many festivals. This year, Amanda won the first prize in the J. Heino Violin Competition in Jyväskylä, having previously won the third prize in the Young Musician competition in Tallinn in 2013 and 2015. She has also distinguished herself in the Crescere con la musica competition in San Remo. In autumn 2015, Amanda and friends formed the Seele Quartet that took part in the VI national Erkki Melartin Chamber Music Competition in January 2016 and won the first prize in its age group. With the Seele Quartet, Amanda has appeared at several festivals and attended a masterclass with Mikhail Kopelman, leader of the illustrious Borodin Quartet.

Born into a musical family in 2000, Alicia Ibañez-Resjan began taking piano lessons from Meri Louhos at the age of four. She is now studying in the Junior Sibelius Academy, as a pupil of Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris, and at the Helsinki Conservatory under her mother, Valeria Resjan. Alicia won the first prize in the international Stockholm Competition in 2014 and the second prize in the Steinway Competition in Finland in 2016. In 2013, she played the first movement from the Grieg Piano Concerto as the soloist with the Concordia Orchestra conducted by Jukka Perkasalo in Turku and Helsinki. She has several times taken part in national Chopin events and appeared at the In Corpore chamber music festival in Tallinn, at the Gradus festival in Denmark (2014) and at the Mänttä Music Festival in Finland (2015). This year the Finnish-Polish Society invited her to play music by Chopin at Temppeliaukio Church in honour of Poland’s Independence Day.

PAULI PAPPINEN Pauli Pappinen (b. 1997) was seven when he began taking double-bass lessons at the Central Ostrobothnian Conservatory in his home town, Kokkola. His teacher was Jorma Lappalainen and later Oskari Hannula. In 2016, after graduating from the Conservatory, he continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy in the class of Aapo Juutilainen. He has also attended masterclasses with Niek de Groot, Zoran Markovich, Mette Hanskov, Jiri Parviainen and others. Pauli has been the soloist with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. He plays in the Jean Sibelius Orchestra and the Orkester Norden, acting as

AMANDA ERNESAKS Amanda Ernesaks (b. 2002) has been a violin pupil of Grazyna Zeranska-Gebert at the Espoo Music Institute since 2007. In spring 2014, she was admitted to the Junior Sibelius Academy, where her teachers have been Päivyt Meller, Laura Vikman and nowadays Pekka Kauppinen. She has also attended masterclasses with Ivi Tivik, Jan Repko, Gia Jashvili, Mi-kyung Lee and others, been

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soloist with the Jalas Chamber Strings in Italy in summer 2016. Any time left over from playing the tuba he dedicates to hunting and his two dogs.

section leader with the latter on its tour of the Nordic countries this year. He has worked with many conductors, including Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, Sir Mark Elder, Lawrence Foster, Markus Stenz, Anna-Maria Helsingin and Juha Kangas. In autumn 2016, he was selected for the Helsinki Music Centre’s Orchestra Academy, through which he was able to work for three weeks with the FRSO. In 2016, Pauli was awarded the second prize and a special mention in the national competition run by the Finnish Double Bass Club. He has honed his chamber music skills with Minna Pensola, Veli Kujala, Lauri Pulakka and others.

DANNA NELSON Danna Nelson comes from Minnesota, where she studied the trombone with Finnish Kari Sundström. Inspired by him, she decided to continue her studies at the Sibelius Academy in Finland, where she is now in her second year as a pupil of Niklas Larsson. Danna realised at an early age that she enjoyed playing the bass trombone but thought it was too late to change from the tenor to the bass instrument. The idea of switching to bass trombone nevertheless haunted her, and at the beginning of this year she decided to concentrate entirely on this. She was therefore absolutely delighted and surprised when the FRSO invited her to be one of its young soloists – on the bass trombone. When not playing her trombone, Danna can be found doing outdoor exercise and listening to Shostakovich.

ILKKA MARTTILA When he was six, Ilkka Marttila (b. 1998) enrolled at the Jalasjärvi Music Institute to start learning the violin. He later added the euphonium to his repertoire, but soon turned to the tuba instead. The reason was possibly that his older brothers both played low instruments (the tuba and double bass). At the Music Institute, Ilkka’s teachers were Petri Salo, Tanja and Elina Karjalainen. Since 2013, he has been studying the tuba in the Junior Sibelius Academy with Petri Keskitalo. He has also taken a number of masterclasses. Ilkka has acquired chamber music experience with the national Youth Brass Academy and ensembles at the Jalasjärvi Music Institute. He was the

HANNA HUJANEN Hanna Hujanen (b. 1998) took up the clarinet when she was nine. From the ages of 10 to 16 she studied with Risto Vilkko at the Käpylä Music Institute, and since 2014 she has been at the Junior Sibelius Academy, first with Olli Leppäniemi and for the past year or so Asko Heiskanen.

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Pensola, Antti Tikkanen, Sergey Malov and Jerome Pernoo. Artturi has been the soloist with, among others, the Tapiola Young Symphonists under Jan Söderblom, the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Pekka Kuusisto and the orchestra of the Turku Philharmonic Society under Klaus Mäkelä. He was a finalist in the Janne Competition for soloists in 2015.

Masterclasses since 2012 (such as at the Crusell Music Festival) have been a major source of inspiration and an aid to greater technical proficiency. Hanna was playing chamber music weekly while still at Käpylä. In the past few years, she has received tuition from both Finnish and foreign top musicians. In 2013, she came second in the under-15 category of the Hullu Puhallus competition in Huittinen, a category reported by the jury (chaired by Jukka Perko) as being of an extremely high standard. Her development as a musician has been well supported by her subsidiary studies on the viola (teacher since 2014 Teemu Kupiainen). In 2015, Hanna was awarded the scholarship of the ProMusica Foundation. She has also received financial support for her studies from the Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music and the Sibelius Academy Foundation.

IIDAMARI AHONEN Iidamari Ahonen (b. 2003) was five when she began taking violin lessons with Nikolai Fadeev at the Tampere Conservatory. Her present teacher is Petri Aarnio. She took part in the MusicAlp masterclasses at Tignes in France, where her teacher was Jan Repko, in 2013–2015, and she is also a pupil at the Violin Academy. Iidamari was one of the young soloists in the Tampere Philharmonic concert in spring 2014 and the soloist with the Tampere Academic Symphony Orchestra in October 2016. She has reaped success in many competitions: first prize in the strings category of the Kaunas Sonorum competition in Lithuania in 2013 and the Giovanni Musicisti Violin Competition in Treviso in 2014, second prize in the Juhani Heinonen Violin Competition in Jyväskylä, Finland in 2016 and third prize in the NoorMuusik Violin Competition in Tallinn, Estonia in 2013 and the Concours Grumiaux Violin Competition in Namur, Belgium.

ARTTURI AALTO Artturi Aalto (b. 1999) entered the Espoo Music Institute in 2006 to study the cello with Jan Cibulka, later continuing with Tuija Vainio. Since 2013, he has been studying with Timo Hanhinen in the Junior Sibelius Academy. He has attended many masterclasses, with such teachers as Ivan Monighetti, Marko Ylönen and Andreas Brantelid, and has received tuition in chamber music from Paavo Pohjola, Paavali Jumppanen, Konstantin Bogino, Menahem Pressler, Ivry Gitlis and others. Among the artists with whom he has played chamber music are Minna

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TARMO PELTOKOSKI

THE FINNISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Tarmo Peltokoski (b. 2000) is a piano student of Antti Hotti at the Helsinki Conservatory. He spent 2008–2016 studying with Tuulikki Laitinen and Kristiina Junttu at the Kuula Institute in Vaasa. Other major mentors have included Henri Sigfridsson and Konstantin Bogino. Tarmo has been a member of the national Young Piano Academy since it was founded in 2013. Tarmo has won prizes in the Leevi Madetoja Piano Competition, the Lakeus soi competition and the Steinway Piano Festival competition in 2016. He has been the soloist with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra and the Vaasa City Orchestra and has appeared at the Mänttä and Korsholm Music Festivals. Tarmo is also studying conducting in the class of Jorma Panula and has conducted compositions of his own in concerts given by the Vaasa and Kuopio orchestras.

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) is the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). Its mission is to produce and promote Finnish musical culture and its Chief Conductor as of autumn 2013 has been Hannu Lintu. The FRSO has two Honorary Conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Sakari Oramo. The Radio Orchestra of ten players founded in 1927 grew to symphony orchestra strength in the 1960s. Hannu Lintu was preceded as Chief Conductor by Toivo Haapanen, NilsEric Fougstedt, Paavo Berglund, Okko Kamu, Leif Segerstam, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Sakari Oramo. In addition to the great ClassicalRomantic masterpieces, the latest contemporary music is a major item in the repertoire of the FRSO, which each year premieres a number of Yle commissions. Another of the orchestra’s tasks is to record all Finnish orchestral music for the Yle archive. uring the 2016/2017 season the FRSO will premiere five Finnish works commissioned by Yle and feature such pioneers of Finnish Modernism as Väinö Raitio and Uuno Klami. The programme will also include orchestral works by Stravinsky, symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner, Haydn’s The Seasons oratorio and concertos by contemporary composers. Among its guest artists will be soprano Karita Mattila and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung,

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