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Esa-Pekka Salonen: Goes Multimedia with the Philharmonia

  Tobias

Next to continuing to work on the proliferation and performing of contemporary music, in direct contact with the composers themselves, the Philharmonia Orchestra will embark on a 18-month excursion deep into the music and culture of Vienna from 1895-1935 together with Esa-Pekka Salonen. This will include joint projects with galleries and musea and extend into art, craft, design, architecture, literature, philosophy and science of the period. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra will play in over 20 cities all around the planet as part of the project – as well as contributing to a major series of online resources.

Alistair Mackie, the Philharmonia’s Chairman and Co-Principal Trumpet, put the enthusiasm of the orchestra into words: “This is an enormously exciting moment for the Philharmonia Orchestra”, Mackie stated on the announcements by Esa-Pekka Salonen, “Many of our most ambitious and important projects over the last 25 years, from Clocks and Clouds (Ligeti) in 1996 to Related Rocks (Magnus Lindberg, 2001-2) have taken place under Esa-Pekka’s artistic leadership, and this new era, combined with the opportunities that digital technologies open up to us, offers us the chance to expand both our own horizons and those of our audiences, with projects that look beyond the boundaries of the orchestral score.”

Picture by Stefan Bremer

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