The Concertgebouw Orchestra has announced the start of a long-term collaboration with Klaus Mäkelä, who joins as Artistic Partner with effect from the 2022/2023 season and will become the orchestra’s eighth Chief Conductor in 2027. As Artistic Partner, Klaus Mäkelä will work closely with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, commencing this {…}

Klaus Mäkelä's third season as Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic features 11 contrasting programmes, with repertoire ranging from Jean Baptiste Lully and Pietro Locatelli to Alban Berg and Icelandic composer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Highlights of the new season include a tour to the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Austria and a return to the {…}

For his second season as Music Director of the Orchestra de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä has chosen to focus on today's composers: Pascal Dusapin, Betsy Jolas, Jimmy López Bellido, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho, the latter featured with three different works. There is also a focus on the Ballets Russes, with three key Diaghilev scores: Ravel's {…}

Coinciding with this week's release of the complete Sibelius symphony cycle with the Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä features on the front cover of Gramophone Magazine. The in-depth interview is followed by an Editor's Choice review in which Edward Seckerson writes: “So much of the musical energy of these symphonies stems from rhythm and {…}

RELEASE DATE: 25 MARCH Decca has launched the pre-order for Klaus Mäkelä’s upcoming Sibelius release - a complete cycle of the symphonies, plus the tone poem Tapiola and 3 Late Fragments. Mäkelä, who recently became the first conductor to sign to Decca since Riccardo Chailly, directs the Oslo Philharmonic, an orchestra with a deep, {…}