| 1983 | International breakthrough in London conducting the Philharmonia in Mahler's Third Symphony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | American debut conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic; appointed music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he remains for ten years; also appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic (until 1989) and of the Philharmonia (until 1994) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | His Los Angeles Philharmonic recording of Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 3 wins a Grammy, a Caecilia Prize, a | 1991 | Elected member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy | 1992 | Wins the UNESCO International Rostrum | Takes up appointment as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; shortly before that, in August, he and the orchestra are in residence at the Salzburg Festival where, in addition to concerts, they give four performances of Messiaen's opera Saint François d'Assise 1993 | Becomes the first conductor to receive the prestigious Siena Prize of the Accademia Chigiana | 1994 | Tours Japan with the Los Angeles Philharmonic | 1995 | This year and the next he is director of the Helsinki Festival; awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Opera Award; becomes artistic director of the Sibelius Conducting Competition in Helsinki, which takes places every five years
| 1996 | In September he and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are in residence at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, where the programme is dedicated to the music of Stravinsky and includes performances of The Rake's Progress | 1997 | Salonen and the LA Philharmonic visit the Canary Islands Music Festival and Spain; conducts the Philharmonia at the Salzburg Festival in the revised version of Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre, directed by Peter Sellars; premiere of Salonen’s LA Variations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award | 1998 | The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Filmharmonic” project debuts with Salonen leading the orchestra in the world premiere of 1001 Nights, featuring the images of contemporary Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano and music by noted film composer David Newman | 1999 | Conducts the LA Philharmonic in the world premiere of John Adams’s Naïve and Sentimental Music, which is dedicated to Salonen; his own Five Images after Sappho is premiered in June in Ojai by the Philharmonic New Music Group conducted by the composer, who also conducts the European premiere in December 1999 with the London Sinfonietta | 2000 | Takes a year’s sabbatical in order to devote himself entirely to composition | 2001 | With his friend Magnus Lindberg he devises and directs the highly successful “Related Rocks” Festival, celebrating Lindberg’s music at London’s South Bank Centre; Salonen’s Foreign Bodies is acclaimed at its premiere at the Schleswig Holstein Festival, followed by a highly successful UK premiere at the BBC Proms | 2002 |
European tour with the LA Philharmonic; conducts the premiere of his Insomnia in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra; premiere by the Los Angeles Master Chorale of his Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund; world premiere of his Laughing Unlearnt, a solo work for violinist Cho-Liang Lin at SummerFest in La Jolla (San Diego)
| 2003 | Salonen and the LA Philharmonic give concerts in New York; guest engagements include the Cleveland Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmon¬iker, and Kirov Orchestra; conducts the LA Philharmonic in the inaugural concerts of the city’s new Walt Disney Hall; Artistic Director of the Baltic Sea Festival. Signs an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon | 2004 | First release for DG: Credo – including works by Beethoven and Pärt, with pianist Hélène Grimaud and the Swedish Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra (Choc du monde de la musique, Diapason d’or, 2004). World premiere of his gift to Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wing on Wing with the European premiere at the Helsinki Festival where he also conducts the Finnish premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera L’Amour de loin; Salonen festival with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Konserthus; in Los Angeles he conducts Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, a co-production with Paris Opéra, directed by Peter Sellars | 2005 | Celebration of his 20th anniversary with the Philharmonic at a festival featuring his music in Los Angeles; beginning of a complete Beethoven Symphonies cycle with them; residency with the LA Philharmonic at the Cologne Philharmonie; conducts the Paris Opéra Orchestra in Sellars’ Tristan production at the Opéra-Bastille; concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Europe. CD releases: Wing on Wing, with Salonen conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in his own works, and Reflection, works by Robert and Clara Schumann and Brahms with Hélène Grimaud and the Dresden Staatskapelle; on DVD, Salonen conducts Saariaho’s opera L’Amour de loin (BBC Music Magazine Award 2006). Named “Musician of the Year 2006” by Musical America | 2006 | Numerous concerts in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic, including completion of the Beethoven Symphonies cycle. Guest engagements include the Chicago and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra at the Helsinki Festival, the Mariinsky Orchestra at the St. Petersburg White Nights Festival, and at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, as well as the world premiere of Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Paris Opéra-Bastille. A release on SACD of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Bartók’s Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin with the LA Philharmonic is scheduled for release in the autumn. The initial releases within the new “DG Concerts” series – downloadable recordings available via the iTunes Music Store – feature Salonen conducting the LA Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5, 7 & 8, Witosławski’s Symphony no. 5, and the world-premiere of “Eleven Gates” by Anders Hillborg | 2007 | Again many concerts in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic, including Saariaho’s new opera La Passion de Simone, his own Helix and Wing on Wing, the Tristan Project (also in New York), and tour to Europe. Guest appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (world premiere of Turnage’s From All Sides); the New York Philharmonic, (world premiere of his own Piano Concerto); the Royal Concertgebouw, Swedish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia, and UBS Verbier Festival Orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms, and the Finnish Radio Symphony and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestras at the Baltic Sea Festival. Appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra from the 2008/09 season. Release of several concerts with the LA Philharmonic via download within the DG Concerts series: the first is Sibelius’s Symphony no. 2; the second his Helix coupled with Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite | 2008 | Numerous concerts with the LA Philharmonic in Los Angeles, several concerts with them in the Hollywood Bowl including a special concert to celebrate Salonen’s 50th birthday in July, and a tour to the Far East in the autumn. Guest appearances include performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; the Philharmonia Orchestra in London (Messiaen Festival) and Leeds; the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm; the Finnish Radio Symhony Orchestra at the Helsinki Festival; the Wiener Philhar¬moniker at the Salzburg Festival; the North German Radio (NDR) Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris. His recording of violin concertos by Sibelius and Schoenberg with Hilary Hahn and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is received with great critical acclaim | |
3/2008
