As I walked through the doors of Orchestra Hall, I felt a gust of something new. It was a Wednesday in April, and I was attending a rehearsal of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. There was a brightness in the room, a sense of fertile anticipation among the musicians onstage and the smattering of people out in the seats. As the orchestra warmed up, everything was swirling winds and {…}

By Laurence Vittes | From the September-October issue of Strings Magazine Those players who seriously approach the cello often dream of playing their small core repertoire of concertos by Haydn, Schumann, and Dvořák, supplemented by Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and Brahms’s Double. Like many young cellists with energy and enthusiasm to {…}

Still in his twenties, the Oslo Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä is remarkably clear-sighted about what he wants to achieve and how – even after lockdown required a different approach to recording his debut album of the Sibelius symphonies, writes Andrew Mellor.  Sweet are the uses of adversity. Klaus Mäkelä’s inaugural season as Chief Conductor of the Oslo {…}

De vitalidad desbordante y contagiosa, la batuta de Klaus Mäkelä es una de las más firmes realidades del presente y futuro de la dirección orquestal. No hay músico que no hable maravillas de su forma de dirigir, transmitir y, sobre todo, escuchar. Quizá esa haya sido la fórmula que le haya llevado a ser titular de la Filarmónica de Oslo y de la Orquesta de París, mientras {…}

Quelques jours après un concert d’anthologie enregistré pour Philharmonie Live auquel Transfuge a eu la chance d’assister, rencontre avec le jeune chef Klaus Mäkelä, qui s’apprête à devenir le nouveau directeur musical de l’Orchestre de Paris. Dominique Lindemann, 26 April 2021 Tout semble calme et serein autour de Klaus Mäkelä, alors que, deux jours {…}

Pendelnd zwischen seinen Orchestern in Oslo und Paris ist der 25 Jahre junge finnische Dirigent Klaus Mäkelä eine der ganz heißen Versprechungen der Klassik. Von Peter Krause, 8. März 2021 © Mathias Benguigui/Pasco & Co. Finnen gelten als wortfaul. Klaus Mäkelä hingegen ist eine Kontaktkanone. Das merkt man, wenn der 25-jährige Meisterdirigent bei der {…}