ALBUMHans Werner Henze: Heliogabalus Imperator. Works for OrchestraBBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMSociety of Finnish Composers 50th AnniversaryAvanti! Chamber Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, Kari Kriikku & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMRameau: L'ÉgyptienneAnssi Karttunen
ALBUMEl MotivoAnssi Karttunen, Timo-Veikko Valve & Jussi Seppanen
ALBUMMystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi's ChiaconaAnssi Karttunen
ALBUMDutilleux: CorrespondancesBarbara Hannigan, Anssi Karttunen, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Esa-Pekka Salonen
ALBUMSaariaho: TriosAnssi Karttunen, Tuija Hakkila, Pia Freund, Zebra Trio, Mikael Helasvuo, Steven Dann & Florent Jodelet
ALBUMLindberg: Chamber WorksMagnus Lindberg, Kari Kriikku & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMPinho Vargas: Graffiti - Six Portraits of Pain - Acting OutOrquestra Nacional do Porto, Baldur Brönnimann, Martin André, Remix Ensemble, Franck Ollu, Miguel Henriques, Elizabeth Davis & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMSaaiaho: Notes On Light, Orion, MirageAnssi Karttunen, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre De Paris & Karita Mattila
ALBUMBergman, E.: Karanssi - Tiensuu, J.: Plus Ii - Kortekangas, O.: Iscrizione - Saariaho, K. Oi Kuu - Merilainen, U.: UnesAnssi Karttunen & Kari Kriikku
ALBUMFrancesconi: Cobalt Scarlet & RestRoberto Abbado, Anssi Karttunen & Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino
ALBUMLudwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Fortepiano, Vol. 3Anssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMThe Music of Magnus LindbergAnssi Karttunen, Christopher O'Neal, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMThe Music of Magnus LindbergAnssi Karttunen, Christopher O'Neal, Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra
ALBUMChâteau de l'âmeEsa-Pekka Salonen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Dawn Upshaw, Anssi Karttunen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMFroberger: Harpsichord MusicAnssi Karttunen
ALBUMOhana, M.: Livre Des Prodiges - SynaxisLuxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Arturo Tamayo, Anssi Karttunen, Pascal Devoyon, Serge Moché, Paul Mootz, Béatrice Daudin, Klaus Brettschneider & Christian Ivaldi
ALBUMSaariaho: 6 Japanese Gardens, Pres, LonhCamilla Hoitenga, Dawn Upshaw & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMBeethoven: Complete Works for Cello and FortepianoAnssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMLudwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Fortepiano, Vol. 2Anssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMBeethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3Anssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMLudwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Fortepiano Vol. 1Anssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMBeethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Fortepiano, Vol. 3Anssi Karttunen & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUM20th Century Solo CelloAnssi Karttunen
ALBUMChâteau de l'âmeAnssi Karttunen, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Upshaw, Esa-Pekka Salonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer & Members of the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir
ALBUMHaydn : Trios for Flute, Fortepiano and CelloAnssi Karttunen, Mikael Helasvuo & Tuija Hakkila
ALBUMHindemith, Merikanto, Lindberg, ZimmermannEsa-Pekka Salonen, London Sinfonietta & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMWorks By Debussy, Enescu, Janácek and KodályTuija Hakkila & Anssi Karttunen
ALBUMContemporary Music for Cello and PianoTuija Hakkila & Anssi Karttunen
About Anssi Karttunen
Artist Biography
Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen has been one of his country's most vigorous and effective champions of contemporary music. He has given the world premieres of more than 170 works, but has also played music of Beethoven and other mainstream repertory.
Karttunen was born in Finland on September 30, 1960, and took up the cello at age four. Among his teachers were Jacqueline du Pré, William Pleeth, and Erkki Rautio. From 1994 to 1998 he was artistic director of Finland's Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, a group that specialized in contemporary music; he also recorded with that group. Karttunen was also associated with several Finnish festivals in the 1990s, including the Helsinki Biennale. In 1999 he joined the cello section of the London Sinfonietta, remaining there until 2005. In the late 1990s, Karttunen began to amass a large repertory of contemporary works, many of them written expressly for him. These have included the Cello Concerto No. 1 of Magnus Lindberg, which he premiered with the Orchestre de Paris in 1999; Luca Francesconi's Rest, premiered on the RAI in Torino in 2004; and Kaija Saariaho's concerto Notes on Light, premiered with the Boston Symphony in 2007. Karttunen has recorded music by Saariaho for Sony Classical and has also recorded for Naïve, Apex, Ondine, and other labels. Karttunen's recordings include a complete cycle of Beethoven's cello sonatas on historical instruments, with fortepianist Tuija Hakkila. In 2019 he was heard on a recording of Hans Werner Henze's English Folk Songs with the BBC Symphony under Oliver Knussen, on the Wergo label. He has also played Baroque cello, violoncello piccolo, and an electric cello. In the late 2010s he gave recitals featuring multimedia elements. Karttunen lives in Paris with his wife, artist Muriel von Braun. He teaches there at the Ecole Normale de Musique and has given master classes in many countries. ~ James Manheim
Hometown
Finland
Genre
Classical
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