Finland's most famous art music composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) gradually ceased writing new music at the end of the 1920s. At the same time, radio broadcasts became more common in Europe. In ...

Music by Jean Sibelius and Dmitri Shostakovich was featured in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s Masterworks Series concert on ...

All that’s after intermission. The concert opening belongs to the international touring star Midori, playing Jean Sibelius’ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. The Japanese-born American ...

Maurice Ravel and Jean Sibelius. The orchestra was led by a German guest conductor, Kevin John Edusei, making his debut here in New Jersey. It was not a completely uninteresting program.

Sibelius was born in a small town in south central Finland, the son of a regimental doctor who died during the cholera epidemic of 1867-68, and was brought up by his mother and grandmother. (He ...

Distinguished Canadian conductor Tania Miller, the fourth of five finalists in the running for Eugene Symphony's musical ...

All parts have been designed to work together to enable mixed-ability groups to perform together. A certain amount of simplification has been required to adapt the pieces for mixed-ability. Some ...

The 2023 lineup festures star violinist Pekka Kuusisto playing a selection of great Finnish composers: Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and, of course, Jean Sibelius.

In 1995 Pekka Kuusisto became the first Finn to win the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of Jean Sibelius' violin concerto.

Undoubtedly the most famous composer ever to come out of Finland, Jean Sibelius (pronounced Zhaa(ng) Sib-ayli-uss) completed seven amazing symphonies and a host of vivid descriptive music using ...