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Pekka Kuusisto

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen and Pekka Kuusisto, side by side. Both wears dark jackets and have short, blonde hair.
    The BSO Performs Sibelius, with Salonen and Kuusisto
    Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with Finnish compatriot Pekka Kuusisto, and the same composer’sSymphony No. 5.
  • A collage of John Storgårds and Pekka Kuusisto. Storgårds (left) stands in a teal room and leans against a wall. He wears a black suit and black shirt. He has brown hair that fades to gray and gray stubble on his face. He looks at the camera with his dark brown eyes and smiles softly. Kuusisto (right) stands in a dark pink room holding his violin. He wears an oversized black t-shirt and round, clear glasses. He has short blond hair and stands with his eyes closed, listening to whatever he's plucking on his violin. The center of the collage blends the teal and dark pink in a way that mimics the northern lights.
    Kuusisto Plays Nielsen with Storgårds and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast of the first program of the Boston Symphony's "Music of the Midnight Sun" festival, Pekka Kuusisto is the soloist in Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto, and John Storgårds conducts music by Sibelius and Tarkiainen.