Welcome to my new homepage!
I hope that in browsing these pages you will find some interesting information about the ongoing musical matters that mean a lot to me.
I also hope that you may find something inspiring, exciting, new or just fun to explore and experience in your own music-making.
Best regards,
John Storgårds
The Tanglewood Music Festival welcomes John Storgårds on 16th July when he makes his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
John Storgårds has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of BBC Philharmonic. His contract starts in January 2012.
2. February 2012, Community High School Concert (location tbc)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
The more interesting concert came on Saturday night, with the Finnish conductor John Storgaards replacing James Levine to make his BSO debut in an all-Sibelius program. Storgaards, who is chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic, had persuasive ideas about shaping Sibelius’s vast orchestral outpourings and an ear for drawing out unusual textures. His account of “Finlandia’’ was muscular and driving and “Valse Triste’’ was equally effective, with Storgaards putting down his baton to draw out a chamber-like delicacy in the ensemble work.
The Boston Globe, 18 July 2011 Tanglewood Festival, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008): Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and String Orchestra with Gong Op. 108 (2000)
Arvo Pärt: Fratres (1997/2007)
Áskell Másson: Quatrain (2005)
Kalevi Aho: In memoriam Pehr Henrik Nordgren (2009)
The Raschér Saxophone Quartet
John Storgårds, violin
Lapland Chamber Orchestra
John Storgårds, conductor
ABCD 322
May 2011