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Lintu studied cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy, where he later studied conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses with Myung-Whun Chung at the L’ Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and took first prize at the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994.
Hannu Lintu last appeared with the BSO
in October 2016, conducting works of
Rautavaara, Beethoven and Dvořák.
Tine Thing Helseth
Following her 2013 BBC Proms debut performance of Matthias Pintscher’ s Chute d’ étoiles with the BBC Scottish Symphony, Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has rapidly established herself as one of the foremost trumpet soloists of our time, garnering critical acclaim for her soulful, lyrical sound and collaborative approach to music-making.
An artist who challenges the boundaries of genre with an intensely creative, open-minded philosophy, Helseth has worked with some of the world’ s leading orchestras to date, including the Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, Gürzenich-Orchester Cologne, Tonkünstler-Orchester Vienna, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony and the Orchestre philharmonique de Luxembourg. Helseth also enjoys working with an increasing number of chamber orchestras, namely the Munich, Australian and Zurich chamber orchestras, as well as the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.
Recent and forthcoming highlights include a concert tour of Germany and Austria with Andrew Manze and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover; concerts with Vasily Petrenko and the Rundfunk- Symphonieorchester Berlin, Lahav Shani
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and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony; a three-week artist residency with the Bodenseefestival at Lake Constance; and the continuation of a series of“ Up Close” club-style performances, curated for the Manchester Camerata.
Helseth also continues embarking on regular tours with her ten-piece, all-female brass ensemble, tenThing. An idea that started in 2007 as a fun and exciting project to pursue with her closest musical friends, the group has gone on to play for numerous European audiences( past festival appearances include Schleswig- Holstein, Beethoven Bonn, Gstaad, MDR Musiksommer, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Rheingau, Merano, Thüringer Bachwochen and Bremen). tenThing made its North American and Paris debuts in 2017, with concerts in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Washington, D. C. and at the Wolftrap, St. Denis, Gstaad and I Suoni delle Dolomiti festivals.
Helseth has been the recipient of various awards for her work in classical music, including“ Newcomer of the Year” at the 2013 Echo Klassik Awards, the 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and second prize in the 2006 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition, to which Helseth returned to serve as juror for the 2016 competition. In 2007, Helseth had the rare honor of being the firstever classical artist to be nominated for a Norwegian Grammy Award.
In 2012, Helseth recorded Storyteller with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, released on the EMI Classics label. She released a further, self-titled CD in March 2013, presenting a personal selection of original and transcribed works, accompanied by pianist Kathryn Stott.
Helseth resides in Oslo and maintains an active role in her community as a regular TV and radio presenter, and also teaches trumpet at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In June 2013, Helseth launched her own bi-annual festival, Tine @ Munch, in celebration of the 150 th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch. The three days of curated events and performances at Oslo’ s Edvard Munch Museum
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Tine Thing Helseth makes her BSO debut.
About the Concert
CONCERTINO FOR TRUMPET
AND ORCHESTRA
Krzysztof Penderecki
Born in Debica, Poland, November 23, 1933;
now living near Kraków, Poland
Poland’ s greatest living composer, Krzysztof Penderecki, has embraced a broad range of musical styles over the course of his long and prolific career. In the 1960s, he was one of Europe’ s most influential avant gardists; his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, written in 1960 for 52 separate string parts, was one of the signature pieces of that radical decade. He said his artistic aim was to“ liberate sound beyond all tradition.” The intensely and disturbingly dramatic works he wrote in his early period were eagerly adopted by horror-film directors for their scores— notable examples being William Friedkin for The Exorcist, Stanley Kubrick for The Shining and more recently David Lynch for his TV series Twin Peaks.
However, beginning in the mid-1970s, Penderecki renounced his radicalism, stating,“ I was quick to realize that this novelty, this experimentation … is more destructive than constructive.”
Krzysztof Penderecki
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