Van Walsum Management Ltd - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor / Composer

Photo: Kasskara / DG

Assistant Manager:
Liz Sam

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor / Composer

'Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the few indisputably great masters of his trade. Thank God he's young and healthy, with a long career in front of him. He is currently presiding over what I have no doubt will later be regarded as a sort of 'golden age' in Los Angeles. The orchestra has never sounded better - in fact, the playing on this disc is so staggeringly fine that you're simply not conscious of it at all.'
David Hurwitz

'[Wing on Wing] contains writing of striking orchestral brilliance... it includes the most unabashedly beautiful and introspective music that Salonen has written... This is a piece, both devilishly difficult and inspiringly confident in its instrumental writing, that says to the Philharmonic not only that it has arrived but that the composer has arrived as well.'
LA Times

From the 2008/09 season Salonen will be Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia

Salonen is Music Director of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic

Salonen's publisher is
Chester Novello

Salonen records for
Deutsche Grammophon

Salonen's discography is on Sony Classical