Roland Pöntinen
Roland Peter Pöntinen (born 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pianist and composer. Pöntinen was born to an Ingrian Finnish father and 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. He made his debut in 1981 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has since then performed with major orchestras in Europe, USA, Korea, South-America, Australia and New Zealand. He has worked with conductors Myung-Whun Chung, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Evgeny Svetlanov, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman amongst others. He has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as well as appearances in London Proms where he has played both the Grieg Piano Concerto and the György Ligeti Piano Concerto. Pöntinen's solo record debut was a recital of Russian piano music on the BIS Records label in 1984. He has since made over 50 records as soloist, accompanist and with orchestra.
Genre: classical, classical-piano, chamber-music
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Top Tracks
- Three Gymnopédies (1888): Gymnopédie No. 1
- Gnossiennes: I. Lent
- Je te veux (1901)
- Three Gymnopédies (1888): Gymnopédie No. 2
- 3 Gymnopédies: I. Lent et douloureux
- Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 114: II. Adagio
- Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-Flat Major, Op. 26 "Funeral March": I. Andante con variazione
- Gnossienne No. 3 (1890)
- Mazurkas, Op. 17: No. 4, Lento, ma non troppo in A Minor
- Autumn Aubade
- Ding Dong Merrily on High: III
- Sonata No. 9, Op. 68, "Black Mass"
- Mazurkas, Op. 33: No. 4 in B Minor
- Valses oubliée, S. 215: No. 1, Allegro
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 7, (Coda) Prestissimo - Live
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 6, Andante recitando - Live
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 5, Allegro, ma non troppo - Live
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 4, Allegretto moderato, a la gypsy - Live
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 3, Maestoso con moto - Live
- 7 Pieces for Piano Four Hands "Romantic Duets": No. 2, Allegro sotto voce - Live
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