Name Roland Pontinen | Role Composer | |
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Albums The Burlesque Trombone, The Criminal Trombone, The Russian Viola, The Virtuoso Trombone, Carmina Burana (chamber Similar People Martin Frost, Christian Lindberg, Torleif Thedeen, Hakan Hardenberger, Nobuko Imai | ||
Rolf martinsson libra roland p ntinen piano
Roland Peter Pöntinen (born 4 May 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pianist and composer.
Contents
- Rolf martinsson libra roland p ntinen piano
- Rolf martinsson sagittarius roland p ntinen piano
- Selected list of compositions
- Songs
- References
He is the son of a Finnish-speaking father, a native of the Russian district of Ingria (near Leningrad) who emigrated from the Soviet Union to Sweden in 1945. He studied at the Adolf Fredrik's Music School and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm with Gunnar Hallhagen, then with Menahem Pressler, György Sebok and Elisabeth Leonskaya at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, United States.
He made his debut in 1981 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has since then performed with major orchestras in Europe, USA, Korea, South-America, Australia and New Zealand. He has worked with conductors Myung-Whun Chung, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Evgeny Svetlanov, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman amongst others. He has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as appearances in London Proms where he has played both the Grieg Piano Concerto and the György Ligeti Piano Concerto.
Pöntinen's solo record debut was a recital of Russian piano music on the BIS Records label in 1984. He has since made over 50 records as soloist, accompanist and with orchestra.
Rolf martinsson sagittarius roland p ntinen piano
Selected list of compositions
The following list is based on information from the composer's web site.
A performance of this piece on February 3, 1998, given by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York, was reviewed by Bernard Holland in the New York Times:"A newer piece was Roland Pontinen's Blue Winter for trombone and orchestra. Mr. Pontinen takes an unlikely solo instrument deadly seriously as an agent for rich, flexible lyrical writing. Blue Winter is a kind of elegy in one movement. The trombone part, played here with skill and sincerity by Nitzan Haroz, is made to sing against slow-moving chordal sheets of string sound. The effect is both icy and mournful; the acid harmonies keep sentimentality at bay."
Songs
CsárdásSupersonic Trombone · 1997
Gnossienne No 5Erik Satie (feat piano: Roland Pontinen) · 1986
Dammrung Senkte Sich Von ObenSchumann - C / Mendelssohn-Hensel / Mahler - A: Lieder · 1996