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Osmo Vänskä
ConductorConductor
Laureate of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he held the Music Directorship for
19 years, and Music Director of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020 to 2022,
Osmo Vänskä is recognised for his compelling interpretations of repertoire of
all ages and an energetic presence on the podium. His democratic and inclusive
style of work has been key in forging long-standing relationships with many
orchestras worldwide.
Performances
of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Minnesota Orchestra in June 2022 provided a
fitting culmination for Vänskä’s tenure as Music Director. Together they
undertook five major European tours, as well as an historic trip to Cuba in
2015 – the first visit by an American orchestra since the two countries
re-established diplomatic relations. They also made a ground-breaking tour
to South Africa in 2018 as part of worldwide celebrations of Nelson Mandela’s
Centenary – furthermore the first visit by an American orchestra - drawing
together South African and American performers in musical expressions of peace,
freedom, and reconciliation on a five-city tour. Vanska and Minnesota Orchestra
also made an acclaimed return to London’s BBC Proms in Summer 2018.
Osmo
Vänskä will conduct Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra on a major European tour in
Autumn 2022, including concerts in Vienna, Salzburg, Amsterdam, and
London. He will return to guest conduct the Seoul Philharmonic several
times in spring 2023.
He
returns this season to the Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras of Bamberg,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Israel, Houston, Montreal, and Pittsburgh
amongst others, while past guest conducting invitations include renowned
international ensembles such as Cleveland, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Symphony
Orchestras in North America, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra,
Orchestre de Paris, Iceland Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin as well as London Philharmonic
Orchestra. He is regularly invited to guest conduct in Asia including
with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and
China, Hangzhou, Hong Kong and Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestras.
Vänskä
continues to develop a visiting and touring relationship with Curtis Institute
of Music Symphony Orchestra, leading conducting seminars as well as tours in
Europe, the US and Asia. He has also been invited to guest conduct New
World Symphony in Miami, where he additionally coaches its Conducting Fellows.
A
distinguished recording artist for the BIS label, Vänskä is currently recording
all of Mahler’s symphonies with Minnesota Orchestra. The Fifth Symphony
received a Grammy nomination in 2017 for Best Orchestral Performance. Vänskä
and Minnesota have also recorded the complete symphonies of Beethoven and
Sibelius to critical acclaim, winning a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral
Performance in 2014 as well as being nominated on several occasions. In 2021
they were voted Gramophone’s ‘Orchestra of the Year’.
Vänskä
studied conducting at Finland’s Sibelius Academy and was awarded first prize in
the 1982 Besançon Competition. He began his career as a clarinetist, occupying
the co-principal chair of Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly
performs chamber music, having been invited to La Jolla Summerfest, Seattle
Chamber Music Festival, Naantali Summer Festival, Sysmä Summer Sounds and Music
in Ruovesi, to name a few. He has recorded Bernhard Henrik Crusell’s three
Clarinet Quartets and Kalevi Aho’s Clarinet Quintet for the BIS label and is in
the process of recording several duos for clarinet and violin which he has
commissioned with his wife, violinist Erin Keefe.
Vänskä
is the recipient of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award, the Finlandia
Foundation’s Arts and Letters award, the 2010 Ditson Award from Columbia
University and the Pro Finlandia medal awarded to him by the State of
Finland. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and
Minnesota and was named Musical America’s 2005 Conductor of the Year. In 2013
he received the Annual Award from the German Record Critics’ Award Association
for his involvement in BIS’s recordings of the complete works by Sibelius.