Dirigent
Biography:
Kristjan Järvi, son of Neeme Järvi, first studied piano with Nina Svetlanova at the Manhattan School of Music and then conducting with Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan.
Born in Estonia, he began his career with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as an assistant to Esa-Pekka Salonen. In the meantime, not only tours of the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra, of which he was chief conductor, have taken him on trips around the world, he also works internationally as a guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchester National de France, the Royal Scottish National, among others Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo.
Out of his great interest in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, Järvi founded the Absolute Ensemble in New York in 1993, which is not only dedicated to classical music but also to world music, hip-hop, rock and jazz. Together with this ensemble, the conductor received the Bremen Music Festival Prize in 2007.
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