FINNISH FLUTISTS' DISCOGRAPHY

Petri Alanko

The Finnish flautist Petri Alanko studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with Mikael Helasvuo and subsequently at the Freiburg Music Academy in Germany with William Bennett and Hans-Peter Schmitz. He won first prize at the 1989 Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan, and again at the Munich ARD Competition one year later. Invitations followed for performances in Germany, the United States and Japan, in addition to his career in Finland.
Mr Alanko served as Principal Flautist in the Zurich Opera Orchestra in the 1987?1988 season, before taking the position of Principal Flute with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also works with the Finnish Chamber Orchestra and the Kerberos Ensemble.
He has recordings for Ondine, BIS and Naxos labels.

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Mikael Helasvuo

Mikael Helasvuo studied the flute at the Sibelius Academy under Juho Alvas and later under Professor Frantisek Cech at the Prague Conservatoire. He then joined the flute class of Aurele Nicolet at the Freiburg Music Academy. From 1976-1988 he played solo flute with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and he is nowadays in great demand as soloist and chamber musician in both the modern and the Baroque repertoire. He has in the past few years turned in particular to the Baroque flute. Mikael Helasvuo is a sensitive and intellectual musician; he is untiring in his search for new works and his study of the various aspects of musical expression. He is also teaching flute playing at the Sibelius Academy.

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Matti Helin

Mr Helin  studied flute with Josef Rauttenbacher. At early age he got the principal flute chair in Finnish National Opera Orchestra.Ten years later he changed to same post in Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Again ten years onwards and he leaves also this orchestra for starting as a flute lecturer in Sibelius-Academy, which profession he still cultivates. Matti Helin also works as a guesting professor in Estonian Music Academy and gives concerts with different ensembles and alone.He has recorded flute music for Finnish Radio and Television.
Mr.Helin is playing on a special kind of flute; Carbon Fibre Flute.This flute was invented by a Finnish industrial designer Matti Kähönen and this CD is already a second one played by Matti Helin on this new instrument. The flute is in production and there is an increasing number of flutist adopting it now.
Mr.Helin has been along with the development of the new Carbon Fibre Flute, but he is also collecting old instruments and restores them into plauing condition. He made a video series of flute's history "The Flute Through The Ages", where he plays on different types of historical flutes.

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Ilari Lehtinen

Born in 1947 in Helsinki as a son of a music teacher and pianist, Ilari Lehtinen studied flute under Kosti Mattsson, the principal flutist of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by mastercourses by Severino Gazzelloni and Alexander Murray. The year 1968 was very important for him, when he went to a mastercourse by Jean-Pierre Rampal. He also studied flute with Aurele Nicolet and conducting with Francis Travis for 2 years.

In 1970 he won the Second prize in a Competition for Scandinavian Windplayers in Norway and the Jyväskylä Summer Festival named him as the debutante of the year in 1971.

Since 1974 Lehtinen has been the solo flutist of Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and got in 1993 the Doctor of Music degree with dissertation "Frederic the Great and his Influence on Flute Music". He is at the moment the president of the Finnish Flute Association.

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Liisa Ruoho

FLUTE STUDIES

Sibelius-Academy, Juho Alvas  1966 - 1969
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Auréle Nicolet   1973 - 1976
- Master of Performance   1976

PERFORMANCES
Recitals, solo performances  and Chamber Music performances in
Flute - Piano and Flute - Guitar Duo, Wind Quintet and larger
Chamber Music ensembles since 1972 in Europe, U.S.A., Mexico and Japan.
1972 ->  Recitals in Finland and Central Europe.
1976 ->  annual recitals and other performances in U.S.A.
1977     Composers' Festival,in Farmington and Sugarloaf, Maine, U.S.A.
              New works written for the wind quintet in residence by
              Composers
              of the festival and main literature written for wind quintet;
              12 concerts during a three week period. This festival also
               included teaching a master class.
 1981     Japanese tour (4 weeks, 10 concerts)
 1986     performance at National Flute Association Conference in
              New York
 1988     recital in Uruapan, Mexico at Mexican Flute Festival
 1995     recital and soloist at Elena Duran Flute Festival,
              Stratford-upon-Avon, Great Britain
 1996     recital and soloist at Elena Duran Flute Festival,
              Stratford-upon-Avon, Great Britain

ORCHESTRAL FULL TIME POSITIONS

 1976 - 1978   Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Flutist
 1981 - 1984   Joensuu Philharmonic, Principal Flute
 1986 - 1987   Helsinki Philharmonic, Asst. Principal Flute

liisa.ruoho@pp.inet.fi

Discography

1967 -            Recordings for The Finnish Broadcasting Company
                      2 - 4 recordings annually

1977              "Wessman" - music composed for one or two Flutes with
                      Guitar or Piano - Finlandia Records

1982              "Kamarihanuri" Contemporary Chamber Music for Flute,
                      Guitar and Accordion with Pekka Vesanen and Matti Rantanen
                      - Finnish Accordion Institute Recording

1987              Helsinki Philharmonic - Sibelius Symphonies, Paavo
                      Berglund, conductor - EMI

1999              Fukushima - complete Chamber Music and Solo Works by the
                      composer for Flute and Piano with Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson
                      FG Classic