Symphony No. 6 / Cello Concerto
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Symphony No. 6 / Cello Concerto
Marko Ylanen (cello) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Max Pommer, conductor
[ Ondine / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 April 2004
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Marko Ylönen began studying the cello with Csaba Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. He continued his studies with Erkki Rautio and Heikki Rautasalo at the Sibelius Academy and with Heinrich Schiff in Basel.
Ylönen made the final round of the Turku Cello Competition at the age of fifteen. He received second prize in the Nordic Cello Competition in Turku in 1990 and a prize in the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in the same year. In spring 1996, he won the Concert Artist Guild competition in New York.
Marko Ylönen has appeared frequently as a chamber musician and soloist around Finland, in several countries in Europe, in Australia and in New Zealand.
Marko Ylönen was the principal cellist of Tapiola Sinfonietta in 1990-91 and first solo cellist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1993. From 1995 to 2001 he played cello with the New Helsinki Quartet.
In addition to the Classical repertoire, Ylönen often performs contemporary music and has premiered many Finnish works.
Marko Ylönen has recorded cello concertos by C.Ph.E. Bach and Haydn (Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas, 1994) and Einojuhani Rautavaara (Helsinki Philharmonic, cond. Max Pommer, Ondine ODE 1994), a duo album with pianist Martti Rautio (1999) and the Third Cello Concerto of Pehr Henrik Nordgren (Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas, 1999).
Marko Ylönen plays a Matteo Goffriller cello.
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Max Pommer was born in Leipzig in 1936 adn received his basic education at the Thomas Choir School before going on to study conducting and musicology, gaining his doctorate in 1968. His interest in new music drew him to the Hanns Eisler New Music Ensemble, but from 1974 onwards he has turned especially to the works of Bach, first as leader of the Leipzig University Choir and later as conductor of the orchestra of the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. In 1975 Pommer was appointed Musical Director of the University and in 1980 Professor. In his role of conductor he has visited many European countries, the United States and Japan and conducted over sixty orchestral recordings. Since 1987 he has been Principal Conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Tracks:
Symphony No. 6, "Vincentiana"
Cello Concerto. Op. 41
