Ralf Gothóni

Gothóni can be an authentic music polymath who’s active being a concert and single pianist noted for his profound and private interpretations, so that as a Lied accompanist, composer, conductor, instructor, and writer (he published a provocative assortment of essays entitled The Creative Minute). His early formal musical education was on the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (1962-1965), with further research in Switzerland (1964) and in Western world Germany (1965-1968). Since 1963, he provides appeared being a single and concert pianist in the vast majority of the Europe, as well such as Russia, Mexico, Canada, Japan, China, and South Korea. He provides performed the Salzburg, Berlin, and Edinburgh celebrations and performed being a soloist using the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and several additional leading ensembles. From 1969 to 1970, Gothóni was the pianist in the Royal Swedish Opera and through the ’70s, he became called an excellent accompanist to such renowned Lied performers as Martti Talvela, Jorma Hynninen, and Anne-Sofie von Otter. After earning the Finnish Cultural Basis Reward in 1983, Gothóni was involved as a teacher in the Hamburg Hochschule für Musik (1986-1996). He offered as the creative director from the Savonlinna Opera Event from 1984 to 1987 and, going after another of his musical directions, Gothóni was involved as main conductor from the Finlandia Sinfonietta from 1989-1994. In 1992, he got the positioning of teacher in the Sibelius Academy and was the receiver of the renowned Gilmore reward in 1994. Gothóni was primary guest conductor from the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra from 1995 to 2000, and offered as artistic movie director from the Forbidden Town Music Event in Beijing, which occurred in 1998. At many festivals, he offers revived a practice through the Classical period by performing the orchestra while sitting in the piano. Concurrently with these alternative activities, he was also a teacher on the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin (1996-2000) and a going to teacher on the Royal University of Music. Gothóni was also the main conductor from the recognized British Chamber Orchestra (2000-2009). In 2001, he was appointed music movie director of Seattle’s North-West Symphony Orchestra, the positioning finishing when the orchestra was dissolved. Gothóni’s repertoire is experienced in modern Finnish and Scandinavian composers (Aulis Sallinen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Sibelius, Erkki Melartin, Selim Palmgren, Leif Segerstam, Yryo Henrik Kilpinen, among others) and music from the Intimate and late Intimate eras (Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Modest Mussorgsky, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, among others), but he provides recorded around 80 albums that likewise incorporate music by moderns like Alfred Schnittke (a specific preferred of Gothóni’s) and Heitor Villa-Lobos, aswell as music from the Classical period (specifically music by Haydn). Gothóni also lectures and retains master classes across the world (European countries, the U.S., Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea) and performs chamber music recitals along with his wife, violinist Elina Vähälä. Being a composer, Gothóni provides created three chamber operas, a chamber cantata The Ox and its own Shephard, and a concerto grosso edition of the piece for violin, piano, and strings.