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Roland Peter Pöntinen

Japanese: . ローランド・ペンティネン
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Birthplace: Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden
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Son of Private and Private
Brother of Stefan Verner Pöntinen; Private and Private

Occupation: Swedish pianist and composer
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About Roland Peter Pöntinen

Roland Peter Pöntinen is a Swedish pianist and composer.

He is the son of a Finnish-speaking father, a native of the Russian district of Ingria (near St. Petersburg) who emigrated from the Soviet Union to Sweden in 1945, and a Swedish mother. He studied at the Adolf Fredrik's Music School and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm with Gunnar Hallhagen, then with Menahem Pressler, György Sebok and Elisabeth Leonskaya at Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

THE PIANIST

Since his debut with the Royal Stockolm Philharmonic in 1981, Roland Pöntinen has performed with major orchestras throughout the world. He has been invited to many prestigious festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and mostly Mozart Festival, N.Y. and worked with conductors like Esa-Pekka Salonen, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Evgeny Svetlanov and Leif Segerstam to name a few. Highlights include performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Paris and London, Los Angeles Philharmonic in the Hollywood Bowl, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow and Eedinburgh as well as appearances at the London Proms where he has played both the Grieg piano concerto and the Ligeti piano concerto.

Thanks to an insatiable musical appetite and a stupendous technique he has acquired a vast repertoire ranging from Bach to Ligeti. The emphasis is on the ”golden era” in piano literature from the 19th century – through the first half of the 20th century with composers such as Debussy, Busoni, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov. Often immersed in large scale projects Pöntinen has recently performed the complete cycles of Beethoven Sonatas and Années de pèlerinage by Liszt.

Many composers, among them Sven-Erik Bäck, Veli-Matti Puumala, Anders Eliasson and Anders Hillborg, have dedicated works to him and in 2007 he gave the world premiere of Shchedrin’s Romantic Duets together with the composer at the Verbier Festival. Always in great demand as a chamber player Pöntinen has worked with artists of distinction like Barbara Hendricks, Janine Jansen, Nobuko Imai, Peter Mattei, Martin Fröst, Zvi Zeitlin, Ulf Wallin, Torleif Thedéen, Håkan Hardenberger, Arve Tellefsen, Christian Lindberg and Nicolai Gedda.

Pöntinen has given recitals in New York (The Frick Collection), London (Wigmore Hall), Bogotá, Istanbul, Stockholm and, most recently, at the Verbier Festival last summer. Recent appearances with orchestras include Rachmaninov’s Paganini Rhapsody with Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Shostakovich’s First Concerto with Orchestre de La Suisse Romande, the Schumann Concerto with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and in January 2017 Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphony with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

During last two seasons he has toured Japan, Taiwan, England, Scandinavia and Holland. In June 2017 Pöntinen recorded Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg, adding to an extensive discography of nearly 100 recordings for a.o. BIS, c p o, Arte Nova, EMI, Philips and his own label Haddock.

Roland Pöntinen is also active as a composer and his Blue Winter was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch at Carnegie Hall in 1998. His latest work, L’éléphant rose for trumpet and piano, written for Håkan Hardenberger, was premiered at Wigmore Hall in 2016. He has also arranged music by Legrand, Joni Mitchell and Weill for Hardenberger and Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Pöntinen is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and in 2002 he received the Litteris et Artibus – a royal medal for recognition of eminent skills in the artistic field.

THE COMPOSER

The first works of Roland Pöntinen, not counting numerous compositional attempts of his childhood, were composed for his own jazz group, formed in 1981. The music was a mix of be-bop, fusion and Pöntinen’s own melodious style and scored for the flexible number of players in the band: piano, bass, drums, strings, saxophones, sometimes with an added flute or bassoon. One of these pieces, Camera, a continuous melody of eighty bars, never repeating any section, was later transformed into a work for trombone and piano, dedicated to Christian Lindberg. The extensive collaboration with Lindberg soon resulted in a bigger piece for trombone and strings, Blue Winter, which was written especially for Christian Lindberg’s CD The Winter Trombone but never performed live. Blue Winter was premiered more than ten years later in Philadelphia and in Carnegie Hall, New York, by trombonist Nitzan Haroz and The Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch. Pöntinen writes music as often as his busy touring schedule as a concert pianist permits and even then only for his own pleasure or if a good friend like Martin Fröst or Håkan Hardenberger would ask him to. His undiminished interest in jazz and pop music has inspired him to write many arrangements of music by Kate Bush, Radiohead, David Bowie and others. His most recent achievement in this field are arrangements of songs by Weill, Legrand, Joni Mitchell i.e. written for Håkan Hardenberger and recorded by Hardenberger and Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields on the CD Both Sides Now, (BIS SACD-1814).

Danse Serpentine was composed for clarinetist Martin Fröst and premiered by Fröst and the composer in Wigmore Hall in April 2010. The duo also played the piece in Cologne and Berlin. Hillary Finch wrote in The Times after the London premiere: ”Pöntinen’s own Danse Serpentine was written specially for this Wigmore Hall premiere, and its eight minutes of curves and flurries were an artfully shaped showpiece for both performers as tone-colourists.” A later version of this piece for violin, two pianos, celesta, vibraphone and marimba was premiered in Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, in November 2010. The musicians were: Mats Zetterqvist, Roland Pöntinen, Roberto Prosseda, Alessandra Ammara, Anders Loguin and Rodolfo Rossi.

Selected works

  • The Girl from Brazil (1981). Recording: At The Beach (Philips 422 344-1)
  • Camera per trombone e pianoforte (1981). Recording: The Burlesque Trombone (BIS-318 CD)
  • Blue Winter for trombone and strings (1987). World Premiere at Academy of Music, Philadelphia, January 1998 and 3 February 1998 at Carnegie Hall. Haroz, Philadelphia Orchestra, Sawallisch. Recording: The Winter Trombone (BIS-348 CD)
  • Tango Plus for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1993). World Premiere in August 1993 at Gotland Chamber Music Festival
  • Capriccio for two flutes and strings (1993)
  • Mercury Dream for clarinet and piano (1994). Recording: French Beauties and Swedish Beasts (BIS-693 CD)
  • Concerto for piano and winds (1994). World Premiere at Motala Folkets Hus, 27 August 1994. Recording: Svensk musik för blåsare 2 (TwinMusic TMCD 23)1994
  • Aiming at the ocean (1997)
  • Sombre seascapes glowing (1997)
  • Poème carmine for flute/alto flute solo (2004). World Premiere: Konstakademien, Stockholm, 2 October 2004
  • Hommage à Ligeti for electric guitar, double bass and piano (2006). World Premiere: Visby Domkyrka, August 2006
  • Danse serpentine for clarinet and piano (2010). World Premiere at Wigmore Hall, 23 March, 2010
  • Danse serpentine (version for violin, two pianos, celesta, vibraphone and marimba). World Premiere at Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Petrassi, Rome, 10 November 2010
  • Metallmorfoser (II) for trumpet, trombone and piano (2015). World Premiere in Hofors 19 November 2015
  • L’éléphant rose for trumpet and piano (2016). World Premiere at Wigmore Hall, 19 September, 2016

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About Roland Peter Pöntinen (Français)

Roland Peter Pöntinen, (Danderyd, 4 mai 1963) est un pianiste et compositeur suédois.

Fils d'un Finlandais immigré en Suède en 1945, Pöntinen étudie le piano avec Gunnar Hallhagen. Il fait ses débuts en 1981, avec le philharmonique de Stockholm et a depuis joué avec la plupart des grands orchestres symphoniques d'Europe, aux États-Unis, en Corée, en Amérique du sud, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande. Il a collaboré avec des chefs tels que Myung-Whun Chung, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Evgueni Svetlanov, Franz Welser-Möst et David Zinman.

Depuis 1984, Pöntinen a enregistré plus de 90 disques pour différents labels, notamment BIS Records, CPO et Philips.

Il est également actif en tant que compositeur. Il a composé des concertos pour soliste, de la musique de chambre et des œuvres pour instruments solo et orchestre comme un Blue Winter pour trombone et orchestre à cordes (1987), ainsi qu'un concerto pour piano et orchestre d'instruments à vent (1994).

About . ローランド・ペンティネン (日本語)

ローランド・ペンティネン(Roland Peter Pöntinen, 1963年5月4日 ストックホルム - )は、スウェーデンのピアニスト。

略歴

父親はレニングラード(現サンクトペテルブルク)近郊イングリアの出身のフィン語話者で、ソ連からの亡命者であった。

アドルフ・フレドリク音楽学校に学び、ストックホルム・スウェーデン王立音楽院にてアラン・グンナル・ハルハーゲンに師事。その後インディアナ大学ブルーミントン校に留学し、メナヘム・プレスラーやジェルジー・シェボク、エリザーベト・レオンスカヤに師事する。

1981年にストックホルム・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団と共演してデビューを果たし、その後欧米や韓国、南米、オーストラリアやニュージーランドの主要なオーケストラと共演してきた。また、チョン・ミョンフンやラファエル・フリューベック・デ・ブルゴス、ネーメ・ヤルヴィ、パーヴォ・ヤルヴィ、エサ=ペッカ・サロネン、ユッカ=ペッカ・サラステ、レイフ・セーゲルスタム、エフゲニー・スヴェトラーノフ、フランツ・ウェルザー=メスト、デイヴィッド・ジンマンら著名な指揮者とも共演している。また、ロンドンのプロムスに出演した際には、グリーグとリゲティのピアノ協奏曲を演奏した。室内楽奏者としては、今井信子やカン・ドンスク、クリスティアン・リンドベルイらと共演してきた。

録音

レパートリーは幅広く、ソリストとしてショパン、サティ、スクリャービン、ラフマニノフ、シェーンベルク、ベルク、プーランクを、室内楽奏者としてシューマン、ブラームス、グリーグ、ヤナーチェク、シェーンベルク、ヴェーベルン、ヒンデミット、ショスタコーヴィチ、ジョリヴェ、トゥービン、シュニトケの作品を含めており、録音数もBISへ非常に多い。

作品

  • The Girl from Brazil (1981)
  • Camera per trombone e pianoforte (1981) also version for jazz-group
  • Blue Winter for trombone and strings (1987)
  • Tango Plus for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1993)
  • Capriccio for two flutes and strings (1993)
  • Mercury Dream for clarinet and piano (1994)
  • Concerto for piano and winds (1994)
  • Aiming at the ocean (1997)
  • Sombre seascapes glowing (1997)
  • 作曲活動も行っている。

受賞歴

  • 1983 – Svenska grammofonpriset för Anders Eliasson – Musik för klarinett (tillsammans med Kjell-Inge Stevensson, klarinett, Savinkvartetten och Ola Karlsson, cello)
  • 1985 – Fonogrampriset för The Virtuoso Trumpet (tillsammans med Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet)
  • 1986 – Fonogrampriset för The Burlesque Trombone (tillsammans med Christian Lindberg, trombon)
  • 2001 – Ledamot nr 940 av Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien
  • 2001 – Litteris et Artibus

外部リンク

Om Roland Peter Pöntinen (svenska)

Roland Peter Pöntinen, född 4 maj 1963 i Danderyd, är en svensk pianist och tonsättare.

Pöntinen har studerat pianospel för Gunnar Hallhagen. Han debuterade 1981 med Kungliga filharmonikerna och har sedan dess uppträtt med de flesta av de stora symfoniorkestrarna i Europa, USA, Korea, Sydamerika, Australien och Nya Zeeland. Han har samarbetat med dirigenter som Myung-Whun Chung, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Jevgenij Svetlanov, Franz Welser-Möst och David Zinman.

Pöntinen har gjort mer än 90 grammofoninspelningar på olika bolag.

Han är i viss mån även verksam som tonsättare och har komponerat soloverk, kammarmusik och verk för soloinstrument och orkester som Blue Winter för trombon och stråkorkester (1987) och en konsert för piano och blåsorkester (1994).

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Roland Peter Pöntinen's Timeline

1963
May 4, 1963
Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden