Anssi Karttunen
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Anssi Karttunen (born 1960) is a Finnish cellist.
Karttunen's repertoire ranges from the early baroque to living composers and improvisation. He has performed with many orchestras in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Filarmonica della Scala, RAI Torino, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, NHK Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, and at major festivals worldwide.
Karttunen has given world premieres of over 200 works, among them 31 for cello and orchestra. Many composers have dedicated works to him, including
Karttunen regularly performs with various chamber ensembles, including the Sons of Chipotle with John Paul Jones, the Zebra Trio with violinist Ernst Kovacic and violist Steven Dann, a cello-piano duo with Nicolas Hodges, and the Tres Coyotes with Magnus Lindberg and John Paul Jones.
From 1994 to 1998 Karttunen was the artistic director of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. He has been artistic director of the Helsinki Biennale (1995, 1997), the Suvisoitto-festival in Porvoo, Finland (1994-1997) and the Musica Nova Helsinki Festival 2015. He was principal cellist of the London Sinfonietta from 1999 to 2005.
Karttunen has directed the Creative Dialogue workshop in Santa Fe, NM and Järvenpää, Finland since 2007 with Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg. In 2021 he created the Creative Dialogue France held in the
Together with Kaija Saariaho, Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Muriel von Braun, Karttunen created www.petals.org, a nonprofit organisation for distributing music in different forms over the internet.
In 2019 he co-founded the ensemble Sons of Chipotle with
Karttunen's teachers included Erkki Rautio,
Karttunen lives in Paris and is married to the Venezuelan-Finnish painter and sculptor Muriel von Braun.
References
- ^ a b "John Paul Jones' Sons of Chipotle Announce First U.S. Show". 8 October 2019.
- ^ "John Paul Jones forms new band Sons of Chipotle". 24 July 2019.
External links
- Karttunen.org the cellist's official website
- [1] Zebra Trio website
- Petals.org Petals website
- [2] Tres Coyotes website
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