Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Music Director: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Music Director: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Artistic Adviser: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Artistic Director: Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Music Director: Orchestre de Paris (from 2010/11)

"Järvi brings true theatrical excitement, heartfelt melodic warmth and a grainy, flavoursome feeling to the folk elements. It's all delightful, and ultimately very touching"

- 2006 BBC Music Magazine Awards

Grammy-award winning Paavo Järvi has built a remarkable conducting reputation. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he studied percussion and conducting at the Tallinn School of Music then, in 1980, moved to the USA where he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, with Leonard Bernstein.

In addition to his permanent positions, Paavo Järvi is one of the most in-demand guest conductors on the international stage. Highlights of the 2006/07 season include debuts with Vienna Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra and return invitations to Cleveland and Philharmonia Orchestras, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre National de Paris.

The most recent additions to Mr Järvi’s discography for EMI/Virgin Classics include orchestral music by Grieg, the Grammy award-winning recording of Sibelius’s Cantatas, and Grieg’s Peer Gynt, which won the best Orchestral recording in the 2006 BBC Music Magazine Awards. All three discs were recorded with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.

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