LIU KOTOW

                                                                   January 2018

LIU KOTOW is delighted to welcome pianist 

JUHO POHJONEN to the roster for Europe and Asia.

Celebrated as one of Finland's most outstanding pianists, Juho Pohjonen appeared as a soloist with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Baltimore Symphonies,

Danish National, Malmö, Finnish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber and Philharmonia Orchestras, 

 

 

Mr. Pohjonen made his debut with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich performing Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Piano Concerto with conductor Lionel Bringer in 2015.

He has given recitals in New York (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center), Washington, D.C. (Kennedy Center), San Francisco, Vancouver, Detroit  and in London (Wigmore Hall), Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Warsaw, Hong Kong, Antwerp,  at the Lucerne Piano, Gilmore,  Bergen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals and at Beethoven-Haus in Bonn. Juho Pohjonen was selected by Sir András Schiff as winner of the Klavier Festival Ruhr Scholarship in 2009. 

 

The New York Times: 

‘If we needed proof that exciting new talent is in the pipeline, there was the marvelous American debut of Juho Pohjonen at [Carnegie's] Weill Recital Hall. Mr. Pohjonen offered a formidable mixed program, topped by thrilling accounts of two fiendishly difficult works by a fellow Finn, Esa-Pekka Salonen."

 

                Juho Pohjonen performs Presto from Aleksandr Scriabin's Sonata no. 2 :