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Hannu Lintu
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27/03/2010
Hannu Lintu is a musician and conductor of rare talent. The combination of natural musical authority, rigorous training and immense experience draws truly great performances from the orchestras he works with.
Born in Finland, Lintu began his musical studies with the cello and piano at the Sibelius Academy before moving on to study conducting with Jorma Panula. He participated in masterclasses with Myung Whun Chung at the Accademia Chigiana in Italy and in 1994 won the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen.
From September 2009 Lintu assumes the position of Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra. Previously he has held Artistic Director positions with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (2002-2005), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra (1998-2001) and with the Bergen Collegium Musicum (1995-1997). He is a regular guest conductor of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra in Finland and was the Artistic Director of their 2005 Summer Sounds Festival, reinforcing his strong commitment to contemporary music.
Working extensively across the world, Lintu has made European appearances with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and regularly conducts all the major orchestras in his native Finland. Outside Europe he has recently worked with the Houston Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic and Nagoya Philharmonic in Japan. Festival appearances include the Berliner Festspiele, Golden Autumn Festival in Beijing, Flanders Festival and the Adelaide Festival.
Lintu has conducted a number of opera productions with Finnish National Opera including Wagner Parsifal directed by Harry Kupfer, Bizet Carmen, Aulis Sallinen King Lear, Kalevi Aho Before we are all Drowned and most recently a new opera by Mikko Heiniö, The Snake’s Moment. Elsewhere he has conducted a concert performance of Gianni Schicchi at the Grant Park Festival in Chicago, recorded Tauno Pylkkanen’s opera Mare and her son with Estonian National Opera and conducted Magic Flute for Savonlinna opera in July 2006.
In 2008/9 Lintu made his Tokyo debut with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, he returned to tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and was invited back to the Bournemouth Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Philharmonic (where he is a regular guest). Forthcoming engagements include concerts with the Prague Symphony, Orquesta Cuidad de Granada, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.
Amongst his recordings, Lintu has released CDs of works by Rautavaara, Saariaho and Luca Francesconi with Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony and Danish National Radio Symphony for Ondine and Naxos. He made two recordings with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra for Danacord: “The Sound of Shakespeare” and Shostakovich piano concertos (with pianist Oleg Marshev). Recent releases include works by the Finnish composer Jouni Kaipainen with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra for Ondine and works by Schumann, Dietrich, Gernsheim and Volkmann on Hyperion with the Berlin Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester.
Book for Hannu Lintu conducting the Orchestra of Opera North as part of Leeds International Concert Season
