Biography of Kalevi Aho (*1949)
Photo: Fennica Gehrman/Ghadi Boustani
09.03.1949
Born in Forssa, Finland
1958
Member of a mandolin orchestra and lessons in violin
1959
First compositions
1964
First piano playing
Studies at Sibelius Academy with Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki, studying mathematics in parallel
1971
Studies with Blacher in Berlin
1990
Composition of the first movement of Solo III, commissioned by the Crusell music festival of Uusikaupunki in Finland based on a quarter tone scale
1991
Second movement of Solo III
14.04.1991
Premiere of both movements of Solo III played by Tapio Jalas in Helsinki
Further information/Sources:
- → Portrait
- → Aho bei Naxos
- → Aho auf YouTube
- → Portrait auf Fennica Gehrman
- → CDs by/of Kalevi Aho bei JPC (mit Hörproben)
- → Music by/with Kalevi Aho at amazon.de
- → Books about or by Kalevi Aho
CDs with/from Kalevi Aho
From A to Z - Volume 1 (2000)
- I. Viertel = 66 (08:57:00)
- II. Presto (04:09:00)
- Poco Adagio (05:06:00)
- Allegro (05:02:00)
- Allegro (04:53:00)
- Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy for Flute (04:30:00)
- Lento ad libitum (02:19:00)
- Allegro molto (00:46:00)
- Eugène Bozza: Image pour flûte seule Op. 38 (1940) (05:13:00)
- Allemande (05:20:00)
- Corrente (03:58:00)
- Sarabande (05:34:00)
- Bourree Anglaise (02:43:00)
- Luciano Berio: Sequenza I per flauto solo (1958) (07:23:00)
Kalevi Aho: Solo III:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonate a-moll W. 132:
Jurriaan Andriessen: Pastorale d'été:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita a-moll BWV 1013:
Ich liebe diese Interpretation der Sequenza.... tolle Tonkultur.
Last edit 14.07.2020