Eero Lehtimäki (b. 1989) made his breakthrough by conducting the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in concert on extremely short notice at Turku Music Festival in 2016. Since then, he has performed with almost all of the Finnish professional symphony orchestras. He started as the artistic director and chief conductor of Joensuu City Orchestra in 2019, and has been the artistic director of the Brinkhall Music Festival since 2018. In 2020, Lehtimäki will start as the artistic director of the Joensuu Winter Music Festival.
Eero started his conducting studies in Jorma Panula’s class for young conductors in 2010 and finished his conducting studies at the Sibelius Academy in spring 2016. He has also studied orchestral and opera conducting in Vienna with Johannes Wildner, Simeon Pironkoff and Konrad Leitner. Eero has attended master classes of Jorma Panula and Valery Gergiev and studied privately with Hannu Lintu.
Before starting his conducting studies, Lehtimäki graduated from the Helsinki Conservatory of Music with clarinet and bass clarinet as main instruments, and he has also studied the historical clarinets in Austria and Germany. He has been the artist in residence clarinetist at Iitti Music Festival annually since 2013 and he is still irregularly performing as soloist and musician with various orchestras and chamber music groups. In addition to his acknowledgements as a musician, Lehtimäki has also graduated as a Master of Science (Technology) in acoustics at the Aalto University. He admires versatile sophistication and makes music to take people to places they could not even imagine.
11.12.2019 at 7.30 p.m.
Laurentius Hall, Lohja, Finland
Classical and popular classics. Arrangements by Jussi-Matti Haavisto, Tuomas Törmi, Peter Grans and Kimmo Leppälä.
30.1.2020 at 7 p.m.
Carelia Hall, Joensuu, Finland
Othmar Schoeck: Serenade Op. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
20.2.2020 at 7 p.m.
Carelia Hall, Joensuu, Finland
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata Overture
Outi Tarkiainen: Joye
Uljas Pulkkis: Tales of Joy, of Passion, of Love
Edward Elgar: Salut d'amour
Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Symphony No. 40
26.2.2020 at 6 p.m.
Porokylä School Hall, Nurmes, Finland
Jonne Valtonen: The Blue Bird
27.2.2020 at 6 p.m.
Carelia Hall, Joensuu, Finland
Jonne Valtonen: The Blue Bird
17.–19.3.2020
Tapiola Hall, Espoo, Finland
School concerts for eighth-graders.
26.3.2020 at 7 p.m.
Carelia Hall, Joensuu, Finland
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Overture and Dance Scene
Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano
Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 2
22.4.2020 at 7 p.m.
Martti Talvela Hall, Mikkeli, Finland
Leevi Madetoja: Comedy Overture
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
23.4.2020 at 7 p.m.
Carelia Hall, Joensuu, Finland
Leevi Madetoja: Comedy Overture
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
1.5.2020 at 1 p.m.
Felix Krohn Hall, Lahti, Finland
May Day Matinée
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