Sibbe Live!: Trio Evening
09.04.2025 19:00 – 20:00
Standard price 15€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Students/ pensioners/ children 12€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Veera Myllyniemi, clarinet, Samuli Peltonen, cello, Mariko Furukawa, piano
Programme:
Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeuz Mozart, Jörg Widmann
Clarinettist Veera Myllyniemi is an active chamber and orchestral musician. Recently, she has worked as alternating principal with the Finnish National Opera, as principal clarinettist with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and as bass clarinettist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2016 she has been a permanent member of the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera. As a chamber musician, Myllyniemi has performed at international music festivals such as Aspen Music and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals in the USA, Boswil Summer in Switzerland, Berlioz Festival in France and Our Festival, Kuhmo and Crusell Festivals in Finland. She was awarded second prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition as well as the prize for best performance of a commissioned work. Myllyniemi holds a Master’s degree of Music from Yehuda Gilad’s prestigious class at the University of Southern California.
Pianist Mariko Furukawa has won prizes in several prestigious competitions, including the Porto International Piano Competition (Portugal), the Grand Prix for the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau (France), the Dorothy MacKenzie Competition (USA) and the All Japan Music Competition. At the International Chopin Piano Competition, her interpretation of Ballad No. 4 was selected by the Polish Radio and has since been broadcast several times. Mariko has also been an active chamber musician, collaborating with renowned musicians such as The Orion String Quartet, Charles Neidich, Anthony McGill and Jasmine Choi. In 2012, she received the All Japan Music Competition Special Award for her outstanding performance as a collaborative pianist. She has served as an official pianist at several festivals and competitions, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, the Karuizawa Music Festival, the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and the International Jacques Lancelot Clarinet Competition. Mariko Furukawa received her Master’s degree from The Juilliard School and her Bachelor’s degree from Mannes College of Music. In 2019, she moved to Helsinki and started teaching at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki.
Samuli Peltonen is a cello soloist with the Finnish National Opera.
He started playing the cello in 1989 at the South Ostrobothnia Music Institute in Seinäjoki under Ferenc Gyimes and Jussi Peltonen. He studied at the Turku Academy of Arts from 1998-2002 under Timo Hanhinen. At the Sibelius Academy he studied with Professor Arto Noras from 2002-2010, graduating with honours with a Master’s degree in Music in 2011. Peltonen has complemented his studies with several master classes with teachers such as Fred Sherry, Heinrich Shiff, Gary Hoffman, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Torleif Thedeen, Frans Helmersson, Martti Rousi and Marko Ylönen. Samuli is currently a cello soloist with the Finnish National Opera, Sibelius Piano Trio, Total Cello Ensemble and a teacher of cello and chamber music at the Sibelius Academy. Peltonen has given master classes in Finland, Italy and Estonia.
In spring 2015 Samuli was a soloist with the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, and in autumn 2016, 2017 and 2018 with Opera Australia in Melbourne and Sydney. From 2006 to 2016 Samuli played with the Helsinki City Orchestra.
Samuli Peltonen has appeared as a soloist with several Finnish orchestras, including the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Oulu Symphony Orchestra, as well as Seinäjoki and Vaasa City Orchestras. Peltonen has also appeared as a soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm and at the Bronislaw Huberman Festival in Czestochowa, Poland. He has also performed as a versatile chamber musician with various ensembles in the USA, Australia, Spain, Iceland, Germany, Denmark, Estonia and other countries, and is a familiar sight at summer chamber music festivals. He has made radio recordings for Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, recorded Uuno Klami’s Cheremissian Fantasy as a soloist with the Helsinki Philharmonic. Sibelius Piano Trio’s debut album is published by Yarlung -records.
Samuli Peltonen is the new Artistic Director of Kaskisten Musiikkikesä together with Anna-Mari Peltonen.
Peltonen is in possession of a Giovanni Grancino cello. The acquisition of the cello was made possible by Mandatum Life and its investment product for professional investors.
Samuli Peltonen won 2nd prize in the Baltic-Nordic duo competition with his sister Anna-Mari Peltonen in 2004. He was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. In 2006 he won 1st prize at the Turku Cello Competition, and in 2007 4th place at the International Paulo Cello Competition. In 2008 he won the International Krzysztof Penderecki Cello Competition in Poland, where he was also awarded a special prize for the best performance of a cello concerto by Penderecki.