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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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featured a variety of performances and guest artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes , Nicola Benedetti and Truls Mørk . |
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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