Ahonen appointed Artistic Director of Avanti Chamber Orchestra
Joonas Ahonen will be the Artistic Director of Avanti Chamber Orchestra for the three-year term 2024/2027 with an option for…
Critical acclaim for Crumb Makrokosmos at Salzburg Festival
In July and August Ahonen appeared in seven concerts at Musikdorf Ernen and another seven times at Kuhmo Chamber Music…
New solo CD released on Alpha
Arto Koskinen is a Finnish composer, pianist and harpsichordist who has devoted his musical life to establishing a dialogue between…
Ahonen to join Lucerne Festival Academy Guest Faculty
Next summer Ahonen will be joining the Lucerne Festival Academy Guest Faculty. Lucerne Festival Academy application deadline is 18 February…
Kentala and Ahonen nominated for Emma
The CD of Beethoven Sonatas for piano and violin recorded on period instruments by the violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala and Joonas…
Ahonen appointed professor in Cologne
Last week Ahonen started at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne, following Pierre-Laurent Aimard as a professor for piano.…
New release on Californian Yarlung Records
The violinist Pekka Kuusisto and Joonas Ahonen recorded six commissioned works and three more for the Yarlung Records famous for…
New piano concerto by Bernhard Gander
Bernhard Gander’s new piano concerto “Scorching Scherzo” dedicated to Joonas Ahonen got its premiere at the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart…
Le monde selon George Antheil
In December 2020 Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen went to the Radio Studio Zürich. The CD “Le monde selon George…
New release on BIS Records
A new solo SACD featuring Ives’ Piano Sonata nr. 1, Bernhard Gander’s Peter Parker and Ives’ Three-Page Sonata is out…
Kulttuurimaa Suomi 1917-2k0r20na?
Kulttuurialan sulun taloudellista vastuuta ovat vapaan kentän osalta joutuneet kantamaan toimijat itse omaisuuttaan ja työvälineitään myymällä. Se osoittaa, miten häpeällisellä…
Kopatchinskaja and Ahonen at the Danish Radio Concert Hall
Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Joonas Ahonen performed the empty Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen on February 11 2021. Watch the…
Donation to the IGFM
As some may have noticed I had a campaign selling Beethoven and Ives CDs of mine to donate the money…
Campaign to support the IGFM
Campaign prolonged until January 15 2021! Folks, it’s lockdown 2 in Austria and the freelance musicians are hit hard. As…
Konsertti- vai kongressitaloja?
Musiikin pienen suurvallan sokea piste Klassisen musiikin saralla Suomessa on havaittavissa selkeä rakenteellinen ongelmakohta: yksi merkittävä tilaajaryhmä, konserttitaloinstituutio, puuttuu käytännössä…
Critical acclaim for Saunders premiere in Berlin
The first one of the two Klangforum Wien concerts in the great hall of Berliner Philharmonie on September 4th featured…
On the road again…
Four concerts with the amazing Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Teatro alla Scala in Milan just opened its doors again for special concerts,…
The New Year started with Fibo
The new year started with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (Fibo) and the wonderful fortepiano by Joseph Böhm. The concert featuring…
Rödberg Trio debut album released
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Trio in D Minor and Felix Mendelssohn Trio in C Minor recorded on period instruments got released at…
New LP(!) is out
Olavi Louhivuori continues his Immediate Music series, this time with the pianists Emil Holmström and Joonas Ahonen. The LP got…
Ahonen made his debut at Musiq’3 Festival in Brussels
Ahonen performed in two concerts in Flagey Studio 1. Watch the full concert video of the recital (Sibelius-Lindberg-Ablinger-Nancarrow-Szymanowski) on RTBF…
Beethoven Diabelli Variations released on Schwechtenstein Records
The disc released on March 31 features Beethoven Diabelli Variations op. 120 and the Schubert Diabelli Variation. Ahonen plays 1836…
Ahonen makes his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ahonen performs Lauri Kilpiö Piano Concerto “Shades of Light”. The fully booked concert of Finnish orchestral music at Maida Vale…
Ives disc chosen Recording of the Year by Guido Fischer / Rondomagazin
The Ives recording (BIS Records) with violinist Pekka Kuusisto has been chosen The Recording of the Year 2017 by Rondomagazin…
Ives disc nominated for YLE Recording of the Year and Finnish Grammy Awards (Emma)
The Ives disc with Pekka Kuusisto and Sharon Bezaly is the only release nominated both for Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE)…
Ligeti disc nominated by ICMA and Presto Classical
The Ligeti CD on BIS has been nominated to International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) and to final round of Presto…
Charles Ives Sonatas on BIS Records
The new BIS CD features the Piano Sonata nr. 2, ‘Concord, Mass., 1840-1860’, Sharon Bezaly playing the flute solo and…
Ligeti Disc one of the Monthly Choices by BBC Music Magazine
Ligeti Concertos on BIS Records is a BBC Music Magazine Monthly Choice of May 2017.…
BIS Records releases Ligeti Concertos
The new BIS CD features Cello and Piano Concertos, Chamber Concerto and Melodien. BIT20 Ensemble is conducted by Baldur Brönnimann.…
Dream Lake is a Polish Grammy nominee
Dream Lake by Agata Zubel and Ahonen has been nominated for Fryderyk 2016, the Polish Grammy Awards in the category…
Ahonen at the Wiener Konzerthaus
Ahonen performs Alban Berg Chamber Concerto with violinist Sophie Schafleitner at the Wiener Konzerthaus on March 18th. Stefan Asbury conducts…
Dream Lake hailed by the press
Some press reviews of the new album Dream Lake with Agata Zubel. Polityka (in Polish) Dwutygodnik (in Polish) Gufetto.it (in…
New CD by Zubel and Ahonen
‘Dream Lake’ by Polish soprano Agata Zubel and Joonas Ahonen has been published by CD Accord. The release concert took…
Zubel ‘Not I’ in top 10 of The New Yorker
The New Yorker critic Alex Ross has listed Agata Zubel recording of Klangforum Wien in top ten recordings of the…
Simone Movio portrait cd released by Col Legno
Col Legno released portrait cd of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation prize winner Simone Movio. Listen to Ahonen and his…
Beethoven by Ahonen praised by Der Standard
Ahonen performed Beethoven Diabelli Variations on 1836 Streicher at Wiener Konzerthaus. Read the review (in German) here.…
Ahonen signed with BIS
Ligeti Piano Concerto was recorded earlier this week in Bergen. BIT20 Ensemble was conducted by Baldur Brönnimann. The recording will…