Tonight!! Harmonium with John Adams conducting the Hallé and Hallé Choir - will be epic!
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October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Tonight!! Harmonium with John Adams conducting the Hallé and Hallé Choir - will be epic!
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Looking forward to launching my weekend with the most stunning soloist entry (and orchestral build-up) in the repertoire - performed tonight by Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson! 💙❤️
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October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Looking forward to launching my weekend with the most stunning soloist entry (and orchestral build-up) in the repertoire - performed tonight by Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson! 💙❤️
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One of the (many) things I love about Leipzig is that your hotel room view is also one of J.S. Bach’s offices.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
One of the (many) things I love about Leipzig is that your hotel room view is also one of J.S. Bach’s offices.
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Having loved and listened to Sir Simon Rattle’s @thecbso.bsky.social recording of John Adams’s astounding symphony-but-name Harmonielehre (1985) for over 30 years, I can’t wait to FINALLY hear him conduct it live with the Berlin Phil on Saturday!!
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October 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Having loved and listened to Sir Simon Rattle’s @thecbso.bsky.social recording of John Adams’s astounding symphony-but-name Harmonielehre (1985) for over 30 years, I can’t wait to FINALLY hear him conduct it live with the Berlin Phil on Saturday!!
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Happy 89 Steve Reich!!! 🫶🏼
[pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]
[pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Happy 89 Steve Reich!!! 🫶🏼
[pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]
[pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]
From Paris to Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble Fab Four at Café Barock - an afternoon well spent in great company. Splendid playlist featuring noble tombeaux and absolute bangers alike. ☕️🎶
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September 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
From Paris to Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble Fab Four at Café Barock - an afternoon well spent in great company. Splendid playlist featuring noble tombeaux and absolute bangers alike. ☕️🎶
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Off to Gothenburg for my 3rd live encounter with John Adams’s ’After the Fall’ (2024) featuring its dedicatee Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist, joined by the Gothenburg Symphony under the composer!
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September 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Off to Gothenburg for my 3rd live encounter with John Adams’s ’After the Fall’ (2024) featuring its dedicatee Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist, joined by the Gothenburg Symphony under the composer!
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Arvo Pärt is ninety years old!!
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September 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Arvo Pärt is ninety years old!!
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Ives Symphony No. 2 (1897-1902/1910) with the Finnish Radio SO and Susanna Mälkki tonight at the Helsinki Festival!!
🎺🎺🎺🥁
🎺🎺🎺🥁
August 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Ives Symphony No. 2 (1897-1902/1910) with the Finnish Radio SO and Susanna Mälkki tonight at the Helsinki Festival!!
🎺🎺🎺🥁
🎺🎺🎺🥁
Outdoors with the hometown band. 💚
August 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Outdoors with the hometown band. 💚
One month to go for the world premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Horn Concerto (2023-25) for Stefan Dohr with Orchestre de Paris at Lucerne Festival!! 📯
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July 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One month to go for the world premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Horn Concerto (2023-25) for Stefan Dohr with Orchestre de Paris at Lucerne Festival!! 📯
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John Williams Piano Concerto world premiere with Emanuel Ax, the BSO and Andris Nelsons at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social tonight!! Full coverage for #adventuresinmusic coming up!
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
John Williams Piano Concerto world premiere with Emanuel Ax, the BSO and Andris Nelsons at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social tonight!! Full coverage for #adventuresinmusic coming up!
Re-reading the fabulous Steve Reich Conversations book.
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Re-reading the fabulous Steve Reich Conversations book.
A fond memory from 2018, Harrison Birtwistle in rehearsal with the LSO and Simon Rattle for the world premiere of Donum Simoni MMXVIII for woodwind, brass and percussion.
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A fond memory from 2018, Harrison Birtwistle in rehearsal with the LSO and Simon Rattle for the world premiere of Donum Simoni MMXVIII for woodwind, brass and percussion.
Every once in a while, it’s nice to get to do something for a print edition - such as this little Rondo Classic interview with Bryce Dessner ahead of his appearances at the Helsinki Festival in August.
Extended English version available here: jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/l...
Extended English version available here: jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/l...
July 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Every once in a while, it’s nice to get to do something for a print edition - such as this little Rondo Classic interview with Bryce Dessner ahead of his appearances at the Helsinki Festival in August.
Extended English version available here: jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/l...
Extended English version available here: jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/l...
Here we go again! Sebastian Fagerlund’s Clarinet Concerto (2006) in rehearsal with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds ahead of the 40th Summer Sounds festival.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Here we go again! Sebastian Fagerlund’s Clarinet Concerto (2006) in rehearsal with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds ahead of the 40th Summer Sounds festival.
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The UK premiere the Helen Grime Violin Concerto (2015-16) tonight with Leila Josefowicz, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at Aldeburgh Festival! 🎻
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June 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The UK premiere the Helen Grime Violin Concerto (2015-16) tonight with Leila Josefowicz, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at Aldeburgh Festival! 🎻
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A night at the Dramatick Opera ahead!! King Arthur (1691) by Henry Purcell & John Dryden with Gabrieli Consort and Players & Paul McCreesh coming up tonight at Aldeburgh Festival!! #adventuresinmusic
June 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A night at the Dramatick Opera ahead!! King Arthur (1691) by Henry Purcell & John Dryden with Gabrieli Consort and Players & Paul McCreesh coming up tonight at Aldeburgh Festival!! #adventuresinmusic
Getting my Aldeburgh Festival Midsummer started. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Refugee (2018) yesterday, Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) tonight & Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto (2015-16) tomorrow, plus some Kidane, Berio, Boulez, Saariaho, Salonen, Britten, Matthews and whatnot. World premieres too.
June 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Getting my Aldeburgh Festival Midsummer started. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Refugee (2018) yesterday, Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) tonight & Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto (2015-16) tomorrow, plus some Kidane, Berio, Boulez, Saariaho, Salonen, Britten, Matthews and whatnot. World premieres too.
If George Lucas had a pub.
June 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If George Lucas had a pub.
Whenever at Trafalgar Square, I’m always reminded of two things: Monty Python’s splendid - and historically ever so accurate - re-enactment of the famous death of admiral Horatio Nelson as well as Rowan Atkinson’s Freudian interpretation of Nelson’s Column.
June 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Whenever at Trafalgar Square, I’m always reminded of two things: Monty Python’s splendid - and historically ever so accurate - re-enactment of the famous death of admiral Horatio Nelson as well as Rowan Atkinson’s Freudian interpretation of Nelson’s Column.
4:21 am Berio & ☕️
Sequenzas and more with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival on Fri & Sat!
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Sequenzas and more with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival on Fri & Sat!
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June 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
4:21 am Berio & ☕️
Sequenzas and more with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival on Fri & Sat!
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Sequenzas and more with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival on Fri & Sat!
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June 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This Friday at @elbphilharmonie.de!!
The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass with Timo Andres, Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Daniela Liebman, Jenny Lin,
Maki Namekawa, Sofi Paez, Christian Sands & Kai Schumacher!
🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
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The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass with Timo Andres, Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Daniela Liebman, Jenny Lin,
Maki Namekawa, Sofi Paez, Christian Sands & Kai Schumacher!
🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
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June 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This Friday at @elbphilharmonie.de!!
The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass with Timo Andres, Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Daniela Liebman, Jenny Lin,
Maki Namekawa, Sofi Paez, Christian Sands & Kai Schumacher!
🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
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The Complete Piano Etudes by Philip Glass with Timo Andres, Anton Batagov, Aaron Diehl, Daniela Liebman, Jenny Lin,
Maki Namekawa, Sofi Paez, Christian Sands & Kai Schumacher!
🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
#adventuresinmusic