Hannu Lintu
Curriculum
Chief Conductor Designate of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra for a term beginning in 2013, and for the year leading up to this its Principal Guest Conductor, Hannu Lintu has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra since August 2009. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin. Previously he had held the positions of Chief Conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. He also works regularly with the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra and was Artistic Director of its Summer Sounds festival in 2005.
In addition to conducting the leading Finnish orchestras, Maestro Lintu has made guest appearances with the Radio Orchestras in Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Amsterdam and Madrid, with a number of orchestras in North and South America (such as the Toronto, Houston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl), in Asia (Seoul, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur) and Australia (the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and others). Later this season he makes his debut with the London Philharmonic, the Sydney Symphony, the NDR Orchestra in Hanover, the Minnesota Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony. He will also take up re-invitations to conduct orchestras in Australia and the United States.
Hannu Lintu studied the piano and cello first at the Turku Conservatory in his native Finland and later the Sibelius Academy. In 1992 he also entered the Sibelius Academy's conducting class taught by Jorma Panula, Eri Klas and Ilja Musin. He has further been tutored by, among others, Myung Whun Chung at the Music Academy Siena. Winner of the Nordic Conducting Competition in Bergen in 1994, he graduated from the Sibelius Academy in spring 1996.
Discs by Hannu Lintu have been released on the Ondine, Alba, Naxos, Ricordi, Claves, Hyperion and Danacord labels. Many of the discs featuring him as the conductor have won awards both at home and abroad, and his premiere recording of the opera The Mine by Einojuhani Rautavaara was nominated for a Grammy.
Calendar
Discography
Max Reger: Violin Concerto & Chaconne
Benjamin Schmid, violin
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
ONDINE ODE 1203-2
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto & Opp. 92 & 134
Angela Hewitt, piano
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
HYPERION CDA67885
George Enescu: Symphony No. 2 & Chamber Symphony
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
ONDINE ODE 1196-2
Kaipainen-Korpijaakko-Meriläinen: notkeatonline
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBA ABCD 342 (2012)
Uljas Pulkkis: Tales of Joy, Passion, and Love, On the Crest of Waves, Vernal Bloom
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Kari Kriikku, clarinet
Gabriel Suovanen, baritone
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
ODE 1176-2
Veli-Matti Puumala: Chainsprings, Seeds of Time
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Roland Pöntinen, piano
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
ABCD 319
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Kaivos
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Hannu Niemelä, baritone
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, soprano
Jorma Hynninen, baritone
Jaakko Kortekangas, tenor
Mati Turi, tenor
Petri Pussila, bass-baritone
Tuomas Katajala, tenor
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
CD: ODE1174-2
Nino Rota: Piano Concertos C & e
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Janne Mertanen, piano
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
CD: ABCD 310
Transfiguration, Wagner & Strauss - Arias & Scenes
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor
ODE 1168-2
Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5, Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2, Wieniawski: Fantaisie Brillante on Themes from Gounod's 'Faust'
Corey Cerovsek, violin
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Hannu Lintu, conductor
CLAVES 50-2801
Virtuoso French Concertos, Carl Reinecke: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 182, Albert Zabel: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in C Minor, Op. 35, Elias Parish-Alvars:Concerto for 2 Harps and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 91
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Hannu Lintu, conductor
CLAVES CD 50-2607
The Romantic Cello Concerto 2 Robert Volkmann: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 33, Albert Dietrich: Cello Concerto in G minor Op 32, Friedrich Gernsheim: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 78, Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129
Alban Gerhardt, cello
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Hannu Lintu, conductor
HYPERÍON CDA67583
Eero Hämeenniemi: Viola Concerto
Tommi Aalto, viola
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alba ABCD 214
Kaija Saariaho: From the Grammar of Dreams
Anu Komsi, soprano
Piia Komsi, soprano
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
ONDINE ODE 958-2
The Essential Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time (1953)
The Finnish Brass Symphony
ONDINE ODE 989-2
Tauno Pylkkänen: Mare and Her Son, Opera in Three Acts
Estonian National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
ONDINE ODE 1055-2D
Shostakovitsh: Piano Concertos 1 and 2
Oleg Marshev
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
DANACORD DACOCD 601
Sunleif Rasmussen: Symphony No. 1 "Oceanic Days", Saxophone Concerto "Dem Licht Entgegen"
Jeanette Balland
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
DA CAPO 6.220506
The Nordic Council Music Prize 2002
Jouni Kaipainen: Symphony No. 3, Bassoon Concerto
Otto Virtanen, bassoon
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor
ONDINE ODE 1089-2
Jouni Kaipainen: Horn Concerto, Cello Concerto
Esa Tapani, horn
Marko Ylönen, cello
Finnish RSO
ONDINE ODE 1062-2
Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Requiem in Our Time, Complete Works for Brass
Finnish Brass Symphony
Hannu Lintu
ONDINE ODE 957-2
Kaija Saariaho: Graal théâtre, Solar, Lichtbogen
John Storgårds, violin
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
ONDINE ODE 997-2
The Sound of Shakespeare, Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ouverture, Mendelssohn: Midsummernights Dream, Lars-Erik Larsson: A Winter Fairytale, Walton: Funeral March (Hamlet), Tchaikowsky: Romeo and Juliet, ouverture
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
HSO SOUND ART
Edvard Grieg: Songs, Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Herman Wallén, baritone
Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
CLAVES LC3369
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, Symphony No. 3, Pianoconcerto No. 1
Laura Mikkola,. piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
NAXOS 8.554147
Luca Francesconi: Wanderer per grande orchestra
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
BMG Ricordi CRMCD 1011
