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Kalevi Aho



Kalevi Aho, one of Finland’s foremost contemporary composers, was born in Forssa in southern Finland on 9th March 1949. He commenced violin studies in his home town at the age of ten, and his first compositions also date from this time. From the autumn of 1968 he studied the violin and composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; his composition teacher was Einojuhani Rautavaara. 

After graduating as a composer (1971), Kalevi Aho continued his studies in Berlin (1971–72) as a pupil of Boris Blacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik and darstellende Kunst. From 1974 until 1988 he was a lecturer in musicology at Helsinki University, and from 1988 until 1993 he was a professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy. Since the autumn of 1993 he has worked in Helsinki as a freelance composer.

The central focus of Aho’s work consists of large-scale orchestral, chamber and vocal works; to date his output includes five operas (1978–2013), sixteen symphonies (1969–2014), twenty-eight concertos (1981–2016), three chamber symphonies for string orchestra, other orchestral and vocal music and a large amount of music for chamber ensembles and solo instruments.

He has also made a number of arrangements and orchestrations of works by other composers. The most important of these is the completion of Uuno Klami’s unfinished ballet Pyörteitä (Whirls). In 1992 the Lahti Symphony Orchestra appointed Kalevi Aho composer in residence, and since 2012 he has been its composer laureate.

In Finland Aho has also gained a reputation as an assiduous writer on music and with his writings and speeches he has also taken a critical stand on the culture politics of Finland. He has occupied a number of important positions in Finnish cultural life.
 


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Einojuhani Rautavaara & Kalevi Aho: Joy & Asymmetry
BIS-2692 SACD
Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho, teacher and pupil, are bot...
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Kalevi Aho – Concerto, Quintet & Contrapunctus
BIS-2666 SACD
Although the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho is best
 €15
Jaakko Kuusisto + Pictured Within
BIS-2747 CD
A double homage to Martyn Brabbins and Jaakko Kuusisto
 €15
Children! - Hiyoli Togawa
BIS-2643 SACD
Children's songs and lullabies for solo viola
 €15
Aho - Concertante works for recorder, saxophone and accordion
BIS-2646 SACD
Concertos by renowned Finnish composer Kalevi Aho
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Concertos for Violin and for Cello
BIS-2466 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Double and Triple Concertos
BIS-2426 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Solo, Vol. 1
BIS-2446 SACD
 €15
Songs of Solitude
BIS-2533 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Sieidi & Symphony No.5
BIS-2336 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Chamber Music
BIS-2186 SACD
 €15
Kromos - 21st-Century Guitar Music
BIS-2395 SACD
 €15
Aho - Concertos for Trombone and Trumpet
BIS-2196 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Wind Quintets 1 & 2
BIS-2176 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Timpani & Piano Concertos
BIS-2306 SACD
 €15
Aho - Saxophone Concerto and Quintet
BIS-2216 SACD
 €15
Aho & Fagerlund - Bassoon Concertos
BIS-2206 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Piano works
BIS-2106 SACD
 €15
Aho - Theremin and Horn Concertos
BIS-2036 SACD
 €15
Aho - Music with Organ
BIS-1966 SACD
 €15
Aho - Symphony No.15
BIS-1866 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Works for the Oboe
BIS-1876 SACD
 €15
Aho - Symphony for Organ
BIS-1946 SACD
 €15
The Chamber Music for Clarinet
BIS-1886 CD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Chamber Symphonies Nos 1-3
BIS-1126 SACD
 €15
Brahms & Ligeti - Horn Trios
BIS-1859 SACD
 €15
Kalevi Aho - Symphony No.13
BIS-1316 CD
 €15
21st-Century Tuba Concertos
BIS-1685 CD
 €15
Aho - Concert for Chamber Orchestra
BIS-1686 CD
 €15
Symphony No.12 ´Luosto´
BIS-1676 SACD
 €15
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