Svensk Konsertdirektion AB - Roland Pöntinen, Piano

Biography

Since his debut with the Royal Stockolm Philharmonic in 1981, Roland Pöntinen has performed with major orchestras throughout the world. He has been invited to many prestigious festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and La Roque d’Antheron and worked with conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Evgeny Svetlanov and Leif Segerstam to name a few.

Highlights include performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Paris and London, Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Hollywood Bowl, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as appearances at the London Proms where he has played both the Grieg Piano Concerto and the Ligeti Piano Concerto.

Thanks to an insatiable musical appetite and a stupendous technique he has acquired a vast repertoire ranging from Bach to Ligeti. The emphasis is on the ”golden era” in piano literature from the 19th century – through the first half of the 20th century with composers such as Debussy, Busoni, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov. Many composers, among them Sven-Erik Bäck, Veli-Matti Puumala, Anders Eliasson and Anders Hillborg, have dedicated works to him and in 2007 he gave the world premiere of Shchedrin’s Romantic Duets together with the composer at the Verbier Festival. Highlights this season include solo recitals at The Frick Collection in New York and the Wigmore Hall in London as well as performances with L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Always in great demand as a chamber player Pöntinen has worked with artists of distinction like Barbara Hendricks, Ulf Wallin, Nobuko Imai, Martin Fröst, Zvi Zeitlin, Torleif Thedéen, Håkan Hardenberger, Arve Tellefsen, Christian Lindberg and Nicolai Gedda. Together with Love Derwinger he shares the responsibility of the Forum in Stockholm, wellknown for its events juxtaposing music with literature and art.

His keen interest in dance has resulted in many different collaborations such as playing Stravinsky’s Le Sacre together with Derwinger and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, performances with Kathleen Quinlan in Isadora Duncan choreographies, Beethoven’s 32 Variations with GöteborgOperans Ballet and in 2009 one of his Satie recordings was used as soundtrack in Mats Ek’s ”Den Andre” danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Niklas Ek.

Roland Pöntinen is also active as a composer and his Blue Winter was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 1998. His Danse serpentine for clarinet and piano had it’s world premiere at Wigmore Hall in 2010 with Martin Fröst. Pöntinen has also arranged music by Weill, Joni Mitchell and Legrand a.o. for Håkan Hardenberger and the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields. These arrangements were recorded on the cd Both Sides Now (BIS-1814).

He has made more than ninety recordings for a.o. BIS, c p o, Arte Nova, EMI and Philips, the latest of which are ”Pianorama” on the BIS label with piano music from his favourite films, three volumes of Busoni on c p o, Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux on Pan Classics,”For Agnès” on his own label Haddock with Children’s corner by Debussy, Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Prole do bebê by Villa-Lobos and Children’s songs by Chick Corea and ”Pöntinen plays Szymanowski” on BIS.

Pöntinen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2001 he received the Litteris et Artibus – a royal medal for recognition of eminent skills in the artistic field.

In 2011 he performed Liszt’s La lugubre gondola at the Nobel Lecture given for Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Tomas Tranströmer.

September 2012

Dirigentlista/Conductor list

Mikhail Agrest
Marin Alsop
Mathias Bamert
Christopher Bell
Paavo Berglund
Gary Bertini
Gabriel Chmura
Myung-Whun Chung
Sergiu Comissiona
Thomas Dausgaard
Stéphane Denève
Luke Dollman
James DePriest
Sixten Ehrling
Peter Eötvös
Peter Erös
Thierry Fischer
Mikko Franck
Christopher Franklin
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Janos Fürst
Alan Gilbert
Vernon Handley
Richard Hickox
Junïichi Hirokami
Elgar Howarth
James Judd
Neeme Järvi
Paavo Järvi
Okko Kamu
Jacek Kasprzyk
Eri Klas
Bernhard Klee
Hannu Koivula
Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Markus Lehtinen
Hannu Lintu
Susanna Mälki
Lev Markiz
Jacques Mercier
Jonathan Nott
Tuomas Ollila
Sakari Oramo
Naoto Otomo
Jorma Panula
George Pehlivanian
Andrea Quinn
Dennis Russell Davies
Petri Sakkari
Doron Salomon
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Heinrich Schiff
Leif Segerstam
John Storgards
Evgenii Svetlanov
Michel Tabachnik
Bryden Thomson
Heinz Wallberg
Franz Welser-Möst
Jaap van Zweden
Osmo Vänskä
Ilan Volkov
David Zinman

(2008)

Repertoire list

Aho Piano Concerto

Bach Piano Concerto d minor BWV 1052

Barber Piano Concerto op 38

Bartok Piano Concerto 2
Bartok Piano Concerto No 1 op 3

Beethoven Piano Concerto 2 op 19 Bfl maj
Beethoven Piano Concerto 4
Beethoven Piano Concerto 4 G maj op 58
Beethoven Piano Concerto 5 op 73 Efl maj
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 c min op37
Beethoven Triple Concerto

Berg Chamber Concerto

Bernstein The age of anxiety

Brahms Piano Concerto 1 d min op 15
Brahms Piano Concerto 2

Chopin Piano Concerto 1 e min
Chopin Piano Concerto 2 op 21 f minor

de Falla Noches en los Jardines deEspana
de Frumerie Symfonc Ballade

Franck Symphonic Variations

Grieg Piano Concerto a

Hartmann Carl Amad Piano Conc w Winds

Ligeti Piano Concerto (1986-88)

Liszt Piano Concerto 1 E flat
Liszt Piano Concerto 2 A maj

Mozart Piano Concerto K 467 C
Mozart Piano Concerto K453 G
Mozart Piano Concerto K465 F major
Mozart Piano Concerto K466 D Minor
Mozart Piano Concerto K488 A major
Mozart Piano Concerto K491 c minor
Mozart Piano Concerto K503
Mozart Piano Concerto KV 482 E flat

Orff Carmina Burana f 2 pianos & percus

Poulenc Double Concerto D major 20'

Prokofiev Piano Concerto 3 op 26 C major

Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody op 43
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2 op 18 c min
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 d min op 30
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 4 op 40 g min

Ravel Left Hand Concerto
Ravel Piano Concerto G

Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 4

Schnittke Piano Concerto

Scriabin Piano Concerto op 20 fsharp min

Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano+Trumpet

Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds
Stravinsky Mouvements f Piano +Orchestra

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1

Weber Konzertstück

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