Cello Concerto / Seagull Suite
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Cello Concerto / Seagull Suite
Marko Ylanen (cello) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Olli Mustonen, conductor
[ Ondine / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 April 2004
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Marko Ylönen began studying the cello with Csaba Szilvay at the East Helsinki Music Institute. He continued his studies with Erkki Rautio and Heikki Rautasalo at the Sibelius Academy and with Heinrich Schiff in Basel.
Ylönen made the final round of the Turku Cello Competition at the age of fifteen. He received second prize in the Nordic Cello Competition in Turku in 1990 and a prize in the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow in the same year. In spring 1996, he won the Concert Artist Guild competition in New York.
Marko Ylönen has appeared frequently as a chamber musician and soloist around Finland, in several countries in Europe, in Australia and in New Zealand.
Marko Ylönen was the principal cellist of Tapiola Sinfonietta in 1990-91 and first solo cellist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1993. From 1995 to 2001 he played cello with the New Helsinki Quartet.
In addition to the Classical repertoire, Ylönen often performs contemporary music and has premiered many Finnish works.
Marko Ylönen has recorded cello concertos by C.Ph.E. Bach and Haydn (Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas, 1994) and Einojuhani Rautavaara (Helsinki Philharmonic, cond. Max Pommer, Ondine ODE 1994), a duo album with pianist Martti Rautio (1999) and the Third Cello Concerto of Pehr Henrik Nordgren (Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, cond. Juha Kangas, 1999).
Marko Ylönen plays a Matteo Goffriller cello.
Tracks:
Cello Concerto "sotto voce concerto" (1994)
Seagull Suite (1984)
