Juho Pohjonen Solo Recital - March 12, 2015

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

JUHO POHJONEN SOLO RECITAL

Thursday Evening, March 12, 2015 at 7:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,413th Concert

JUHO POHJONEN, piano

45th Anniversary Season

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY 10023 212-875-5788 www.ChamberMusicSociety.org

The Chamber Music Society is deeply grateful to Board member Paul Gridley for his very generous gift of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model "D" concert grand piano we are privileged to hear this evening.

This evening’s performance is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this performance is prohibited.

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JUHO POHJONEN SOLO RECITAL WINTER FESTIVAL IN THE ROSE - INTIMATE EXPRESSIONS Thursday Evening, March 12, 2015 at 7:30 JUHO POHJONEN, piano

Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 58 (1909)

JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957)

Rêverie Scherzino Air varié Der Hirt (The Shepherd) Des Abends (In the Evening) Dialogue Tempo di minuetto Fischerlied (Fisherman's Song) Ständchen (Serenade) Sommerlied (Summer Song)

SIBELIUS

Five Esquisses for Piano, Op. 114 (1929)

Landscape Winter Scene Forest Lake Song in the Forest Spring Vision

—INTERMISSION— MAURICE RAVEL

Menuet antique for Piano (1895)

(1875-1937)

RAVEL

Gaspard de la nuit for Piano (1908) Ondine Le gibet Scarbo

Due to illness, Wu Han is unable to perform on tonight's program.

meet tonight’s

ARTIST

Widely praised for his broad range of repertoire from Bach to Salonen, Juho Pohjonen has attracted great attention as one of Finland’s most intriguing and talented pianists. He opened the 2014-15 season with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, performing Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 with conductor Jeffrey Kahane. He joins the Brentano String Quartet for Brahms’ Piano Quintet in Kansas City and gives a recital at The Green Center in Sonoma, California. Abroad, he makes his debut with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich performing Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto with conductor Lionel Bringuier. He has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco, Atlanta, Danish National, Malmö, Finnish Radio, and Swedish Radio symphonies; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; and Lahti Symphony, with which he toured Japan. He has been presented on recital series in Carnegie's Zankel Hall, the Kennedy Center, and in Vancouver, San Francisco, and Detroit. His debut recording Plateaux features works by Scandinavian composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and his recital at the 2010 Music@Menlo Festival led to a recording for the Music@Menlo Live series. The winner of numerous prizes in both Finnish and international competitions, he was selected by Sir András Schiff as winner of the Klavier Festival Ruhr Scholarship in 2009. Mr. Pohjonen studied with Meri Louhos and Hui-Ying Liu at the Sibelius Academy, where he completed his master’s degree in 2008. He is a former member of CMS Two.

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EVENTS

THE ESCHER STRING QUARTET - VOCES INTIMAE

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall The Escher String Quartet performs Sibelius's powerful "Voces intimae" along with masterworks by Berg and Schubert.

SCHUBERT & SCHNITTKE

Friday, March 20, 2015, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Schubert's radiant B-flat major Piano Trio is performed alongside his melodic Violin Fantasy and Schnittke's riveting Cello Sonata.