Esa-Pekka Salonen

Personal Info

Birthday

June 30, 1958

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Helsinki, Finland

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Biography

Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Salonen graduated from Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu (SYK), one of the top high schools in Finland, in 1977 and then went to study horn and composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, as well as conducting with Jorma Panula.

Known For

Filmography

2022
Playing with Gods
as Self
Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla-Symphonie Orchestre de Paris
as Self - Conductor
2020
Covid Fan Tutte
as Self - Conductor
2018
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
as Self - Conductor
2017
From the House of the Dead
as Self - Conductor
2016
Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence
as Self - Conductor
Strauss: Elektra
as Self - Conductor
2014
Orango
as Self - Conductor
2013
Universe of Sound - The Planets - Philharmonia Orchestra
as Self - Conductor
2011
The Makropulos Affair
as Self - Conductor
2004
Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin
as Self - Conductor
1995
Eva Dahlgren - Jag vill se min älskade komma från det vilda
as Self / Self - Conductor
1993
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
as Self
1992
Letter to Peter, on Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen
as Self - Conductor