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Composer Esa Pietilä

Composer Esa Pietilä´s new management

I am so happy and thrilled to announce that Blom Music Management has signed me as composer to its artist roster. Looking forward to many exciting collaborations with orchestras, conductors etc.

Contact:

Mr. Rienk Blom,

info@blommusicmanagement.com,

+31 6 488 058 40

Composer Esa Pietilä´s new management

©Tuomas Tenkanen

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KALEVI AHO TENOR SAXOPHONE CONCERTO ALBUM RELEASE date 1st of Sept. 2023 by BIS Records

Time to celebrate🍾 The recording of Kalevi Aho´s tenor saxophone concerto is going to be released 1st of sept. by BIS Records. The concerto was exclusively composed and dedicated to Esa Pietilä when premiered in 2016. On the album there´s two more concertos performed  Eero Saunamäki (recorder concerto) and Janne Valkeajoki (accordion Sonata Concertante) with Erkki Johannes Lasonpalo and Saimaa Sinfonietta.

KALEVI AHO TENOR SAXOPHONE CONCERTO ALBUM RELEASE

 

 

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Esa Pietilä records Kalevi Aho Tenor Saxophone concerto for BIS Records

Esa Pietilä records Kalevi Aho Tenor Saxophone concerto for BIS Records

Esa Pietilä records Kalevi Aho Tenor Saxophone concerto for BIS Records. The recording was made 20.-21. of April 2022 with Saimaa Sinfonietta and conductor Erkki Lasonpalo. Internationally acclaimed Finnish contemporary composer Kalevi Aho wrote and dedicated the concerto to Esa Pietilä.

Pietilä did the two premiere performances of the new concerto with two Finnish orchestras in march 2016. The concerto is a challenging  contemporary piece for tenor saxophone and it exploits all the possible playing techniques of the today´s modern tenor saxophone expression plus it allows a room for improvisational skills on the main Cadenza.

The work is published by Fennica Gehrman and the schedule for album release by BIS records TBA…

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Liberty Ship´s new album with new FIN-NOR line-up

Jazz Musician of the Year 2016 awarded saxophonist Esa Pietilä leads his quartet Liberty Ship to the waters of free improvisation again.

The renewed Liberty Ship consists of a Finnish-Norwegian crew. Two top Norwegian jazz musicians, pianist Håvard Wiik and bassist Ole Morten Vågan brought superb new flow and energy to the sessions. The drumming of Olavi Louhivuori here is stunning and creative as always and Esa’s horn sounds strongly more diverse in ideas and timbre than ever before. The result of these recordings, Signal Horn, is even more intense in integrity than the groups previous albums, and its newborn sound leads the quartet towards uncharted waters. 

Liberty Ship debuted its new music recently at Nordic Music Days 2018.

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Esa Pietilä Yrjö Award

Esa Pietilä Yrjö Award

The Yrjö Jazz award 2016 was given to saxophonist Esa Pietilä (b. 1964) for his original, genre-defying work in the field of avant-garde jazz.

“Pietilä is known as a fearless improviser and musical visionary. His repertory is extremely versatile, including collaborations with classical orchestras. Moreover, he has brought not only Finnish but also international critics to their knees: the influential jazz magazine New York City Jazz Record shortlisted the debut album of Pietilä’s group Liberty Ship among the albums of 2013,” Petteri Klintrup, the Chair of the Finnish Jazz Federation board, explained.

The Yrjö Jazz Prize is an annual award given to a Finnish jazz artist in acknowledgement of his or her outstanding contribution to Finnish jazz music.

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