Esa-Pekka Salonen, one of the Famous Helsinki People, was born in Finland in the year of 1958. He studied horn, composing and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in the 1970s. In 1983 Esa-Pekka Salonen of Helsinki undertook a performance of Mahler's third symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London with a short notice. Thus he became a composing conductor almost overnight.
After around 20 years, along with his international conducting career Esa-Pekka Salonen again started composing. Today his orchestral works are regularly performed and broadcasted all around the world. Two of his major works were at Musica Nova in Helsinki in March 2003 and 2004 at the Stockholm International Composer Festival in Stockholm in October 2004.
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The first large scale orchestral work of Esa-Pekka Salonen was the Concerto for saxophone and orchestra in 1980-81, when he was studying in Milan with Niccolò Castiglioni. Thus it can be concluded that Life of Esa-Pekka Salonen as a musician started at a very early age.
In order to devote more time to composition, Esa-Pekka Salonen took a year's break from conducting in 2000. During this period he composed the Dichotomie for solo piano, Concert Etude for solo horn, the cello concerto Mania for Anssi Karttunen and London Sinfonietta, and his first choral work - Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund for the Swedish Radio Choir. In February 2007 Salonen conducted the New York Philharmonic in the first performance of his first piano concerto.
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