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Fauré Requiem In D Minor Op. 48 Ii. Offertorium by Paavo Järvi

Artist Biography For Paavo Järvi

Grammy-Award Winning Paavo Järvi Has Built A Remarkable Conducting Reputation. Born In Tallinn Estonia He Studied Percussion And Conducting At The Tallinn School Of Music Then In 1980 Moved To The USA Where He Continued His Studies At The Curtis Institute Of Music And At The Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute With Leonard Bernstein. He Became Music Director Of The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra In September 2001 And Has Recently Extended His Contract With The Orchestra Until 2011/12. During His Music Directorship They Have Toured Together Throughout America Including A California And A West Coast Tour And Japan. Their Second Tour Of Europe In April 2008 Was A Major Success And Included Concerts In Vienna Paris Amsterdam Munich Frankfurt Hamburg Barcelona And Madrid. Currently In His Third Season As Music Director Of Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Paavo Järvi And The Orchestra Have Just Returned From A Very Successful Tour To China And. Previous Tours Have Taken Them To Major European Festivals Including The BBC Proms The Rheingau Musik Festival In Germany And The Robeco Summer Series In The Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Paavo Järvi Has Been The Artistic Leader Of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Since 2004 And Has Led The Orchestra To Highest Public And Critical Acclaim For Their Concerts And Recordings On SonyBMG Of Beethoven Symphonies. Their First CD With Symphonies No 3 And 8 Won The Prestigious Annual German Record Critics’ Prize For 2007 While The Second Volume With Symphonies No 4 And 7 Has Been Praised As “brilliantly Conceived Interpretations Of Both Works Full Of Idiomatic Fire And Athletic Drive” Classics Today January 2008 . Paavo Järvi And The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Will Perform All The Beethoven Symphonies In The Champs Elysees In March 2009 At The 2009 Salzburg Festival And At The Warsaw Easter Festival In 2010. They Will Also Take Part In The Re-Opening Concerts For Alice Tully Hall New York In 2009. As Artistic Advisor To The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Mr Järvi Is Known For Having Championed Many Works By Estonian Composers Including Arvo Pärt Erkki-Sven Tüür Lepo Sumera And Eduard Tubin. His Virgin Classics Recording Of Sibelius Cantatas With The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Estonian National Male Choir And Ellerhein Girls Choir Won A Grammy Award For “Best Choral Performance”. His Most Recent Recording - E-S Tüür’s Symphony No.4 “Magma” With Evelyn Glennie - Was Nominated For A 2008 Gramophone Award. Paavo Järvi Will Become The Seventh Music Director Of The Orchestre De Paris In 2010/11 Joining An Eminent List Of Conductors Who Have Held The Post Since 1967 Including Daniel Barenboim Sir Georg Solti Herbert Von Karajan And Charles Munch. In Addition To His Permanent Positions Paavo Järvi Is In Much Demand As A Guest Conductor Appearing Regularly With Orchestras Such As Chicago Symphony Los Angeles New York Philharmonic Boston Staatskapelle Dresden La Scala And NHK Symphony. Highlights Of 2007/08 Included A Return To The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He Gave His Very Successful Debut With The Vienna Philharmonic In November 2006 And Made His Subscription Series Debut With The Cleveland Orchestra In May 2007. In 2008/09 He Will Return To Cleveland As Well As To The Philharmonia Orchestra In London The Orchestre De Paris And The Tonhalle Orchestra In Zürich. Mr Järvi’s Extensive Discography For EMI/Virgin Classics Includes Orchestral Music By Grieg The Grammy Award-Winning Recording Of Sibelius’s Cantatas And Grieg’s Peer Gynt Which Won The Best Orchestral Recording In The 2006 BBC Music Magazine Awards. All Three Discs Were Recorded With The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Paavo Järvi Has Released More Than 10 CDs On Telarc With The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Their Most Recent Release Is A Recording Of Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition. With The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra He Has Recently Embarked On A Cycle Of Bruckner Symphonies The First Of Which – Symphony No.7 – Has Just Been Released By Sony BMG.

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