Salonen at Festival Présences Paris
From 3-19 February Esa-Pekka Salonen will be artist-in-residence at the twentieth Festival Présences Paris. Salonen's works for orchestra and for chamber ensemble will be performed across ten concerts including those by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and various chamber ensembles and soloists including Barbara Hannigan and Anssi Karttunen.
Salonen himself will conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in five concerts playing his own works alongside masterpieces of the last century such as Ligeti's Requiem and Amériques by Varèse. Radio France has commissioned two... 
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