Lindberg: Chamber Works

Featuring

Kari Kriikku
Anssi Karttunen
Magnus Lindberg

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Instruments

Anssi Karttunen, the cellist, plays on a Francesco Ruggeri cello, and his repertoire includes performances on modern, classical, and baroque cellos, as well as the violoncello piccolo.

Composer Biography

Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958), the composer, studied piano alongside composition at the Sibelius Academy and performed his own works early in his career.

Composer Biography

Magnus Lindberg, along with contemporaries like Esa-Pekka Salonen, founded the "Ears Open Society" around 1980 to promote awareness of mainstream modernism in music.

Performer Biography

Anssi Karttunen, the cellist, is a passionate advocate for contemporary music, having performed over 125 world premieres and had 24 concertos written for him.

Composer Biography

Magnus Lindberg was appointed Composer-in-Residence to the New York Philharmonic for the period 2009-2012, a consequence of his international fame from orchestral works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lindberg's music underwent a major transition in the late 1980s, moving from an edgy Modernism to a softer, simpler idiom, which he described as "shaping clay" instead of "sculpting in stone."

Performer Biography

Kari Kriikku, the clarinetist, has premiered the entire output for clarinet by Magnus Lindberg and won a Gramophone Award and a BBC Music Magazine Award for his recording of Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.