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Hannu Lintu

Chief conductor of
the Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra
since August 2013,
Hannu Lintu previously held the positions
of artistic director and chief conductor
of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra,
principal guest conductor with the RTÉ
National Symphony Orchestra and artistic
director of the Helsingborg Symphony
and Turku Philharmonic orchestras.
In the 2015–2016 Mr. Lintu appeared
with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln,
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne,
Orchestre National de Lille, the Iceland
Symphony, and Moscow State Symphony
and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras. He
conducted the Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra on tour in Japan, and toured
Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck in
January with violinist Leila Josefowicz.
In May, Mr. Lintu returned to Finnish
National Opera to conduct Wagner’s
Tristan und Isolde, having previously
conducted them in Parsifal, Carmen, and
Aulis Sallinen’s King Lear. Mr. Lintu has
also worked with Estonian National
Opera, recording Tauno Pylkkänen’s
Mare and her son.
Mr. Lintu has made several recordings
for Ondine, Naxos, Avie and Hyperion.
In summer 2015 he recorded Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concertos
with Fumiaki Miura and the Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Avex,
while other recent recordings feature
works by Ligeti, including the Violin
Concerto with Benjamin Schmid, and
Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony with
Angela Hewitt and Valerie HartmannClaverie — both for Ondine with the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Lintu
received a 2011 Grammy nomination for
Best Opera CD plus Gramophone Award
nominations for his recordings of Enescu’s
Symphony No.2 with the Tampere
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Violin
Concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès
with Augustin Hadelich and the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hannu Lintu studied cello and piano
at the Sibelius Academy, where he later
studied conducting with Jorma Panula.

He participated