Kristjan Järvi

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Kristjan Järvi (front right) with Goran Bregović (2008)

Kristjan Järvi (born June 13, 1972 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR ) is an American pianist and conductor of Estonian origin.

Life

Järvi was born in Tallinn in 1972 as the youngest son of the conductor Neeme Järvi . His brother Paavo Järvi is also a conductor. In 1980 the family moved to New Jersey . Järvi studied piano with Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and conducting with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

He is the director of the Absolute Ensemble in New York City, which he and Charles Coleman founded in 1993 . In 2007, Järvi and his ensemble were awarded the Bremer Musikfest Prize from the Commerzbank Foundation. From 1998 to 2000 he was Esa-Pekka Salonen's assistant with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . From 2000 to 2004 he was chief conductor and music director of the NorrlandsOperan in Umeå and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm. From 2004 to 2009 he was director of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich in Vienna. Järvi is artistic advisor to the Basel Chamber Orchestra and co-founder of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic.

As an orchestral conductor, Kristjan Järvi works on a wide-ranging repertoire with music from the 17th century to contemporary music . He led u. a. Works by HK Gruber , Erkki-Sven Tüür , Peeter Vähi , Gabriela Montero (world premiere of their piano concerto “Latin Concerto”), Ezequiel Viñao, Joe Zawinul , Gediminas Gelgotas and Arvo Pärt , with whom he has a close working relationship. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with famous orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra . He participated in 30 CD recordings, was awarded the Swedish music prize Grammis , the prize of the German Record Critics and was for the Grammy Awards nominations. The music critic Anthony Tommasini paid homage to him in the New York Times as the rebirth of Leonard Bernstein .

From 2012 to 2018 Järvi was chief conductor of the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig; this also resulted in productions such as Balkan Fever with Miroslav Tadić , Vlatko Stefanovski and Theodosii Spassov .

Private

His first marriage was to the Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz . In his second marriage he lived with the Australian flautist Hayley Melitta. He has been in a relationship with the Estonian musician Hanna-Liis-Nahkur since 2016 and has mainly lived in Estonia since then. Järvi has a son from his first marriage and three other children from his second marriage. In autumn 2019, he is expecting another child from his current relationship.

Publications

  • "A Soundtrack to Our Lives ..." . In: Sebastian Stoppe (ed.): Film in concert: film scores and their relation to classical concert music . Hülsbusch, Glückstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-86488-060-5 , pp. 131–144.

literature

  • Järvi, Kristjan . In: Allan Alaküla (Ed.): Kes on kes? Eesti 2000. Ekspresskataloogide, Tallinn 2000, p. 49.
  • Julian Caskel: Järvi, Kristjan . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 211–212.

Web links

Commons : Kristjan Järvi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udo Badelt: Interview with Järvi on concerti.de , accessed on January 21, 2014
  2. ^ Anthony Tommasini: Music Review. Provocative At a Time of Provocation. In: The New York Times , October 1, 2001.
  3. ↑ https://kroonika.delfi.ee/news/kroonika/kristjan-jarvi-suhtest-eesti-ja-eesti-naisega-tunnen-et-olen-nuud-ara-kodustatud-ja-mulle-nii-meeldib-see ? id = 84034956
  4. ↑ https://kroonika.delfi.ee/news/inimesed/klops-palju-onne-kristjan-jarvi-perre-sunnib-laps?id=86815291
personal data
SURNAME Järvi, Kristjan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn , Estonian SSR