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 Paavo
Järvi – Biography
“Järvi worked the music’s great lung to maximum effect by making his baton rein in each breath, weighing and measuring every pulse. The listener was kept in a state of suspended anticipation.“
– Hilary Finch, The Times, 28 June 2006
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 2010. During his Music Directorship they have toured together throughout America and Japan. They will make their second tour of Europe in Spring 2008.
In September 2006 Paavo Järvi was appointed Music Director of Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and, during his first season, will visit with BBC Proms and the Robeco Summer series in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He also holds the posts of Artistic Leader of Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, with whom he recently made an extremely successful tour of Japan. On that tour he conducted a complete Beethoven symphony cycle, and together they will repeat this project in Strasbourg and at major US Festivals in Summer 2007. In 2006 they returned to the Salzburg Festival where their concert included the world première of the Wolfgang Rihm Cello Concerto, with Steven Isserlis. As Artistic Adviser 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.
In addition to his permanent positions, Paavo Järvi is in much demand as a guest conductor appearing regularly with such orchestras as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philharmonia, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bayerische Rundfunk, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Dresden Statskapelle, La Scala and NHK Symphony. Highlights of 2005/06 included Mahler’s Symphony No.2 at St. Denis Festival with Orchestre National de France, Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with the London Symphony Orchestra, and a concert at the Baltic Sea Festival with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Paavo Järvi gave a very successful debut with Vienna Philharmonic in November 2006 and future highlights include his subscription series debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in May 2007 and a return with the Philadelphia Orchestra next season.
The most recent additions to Mr Järvi’s discography for EMI/Virgin Classics include 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 a number of CDs on Telarc with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra featuring works by Ravel, Berlioz, Sibelius, Prokofiev, Tubin, Stravinsky, Debussy, Dvořák, Martinů, Lutosławski and Bartók. His most recent Telarc release with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra – a recording featuring orchestral works by Elgar and Britten – won a Grammy at the recent 49th Grammy Awards. Adding to his growing discography with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie which already includes works by Richard Strauss and Stravinsky, his is in the middle of recording a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies for BMG. The first of these - a CD featuring Symphonies Nos. 3 and 8 - was released in 2006.
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