TWO-HEADED PIANO
LAHTI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | KRISTIINA POSKA, CONDUCTING | LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN, PIANO
Live streaming: Thursday, January 23, 2025, at 18:30 local time (GMT+2)
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Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Dutch brothers who have been performing at the highest level for over two years, take on Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, a work of dazzling virtuosity and charm.
The concert begins with Gabriel Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande, a work that captures the ethereal and emotional atmosphere of French symbolism, influencing composers like Debussy, Sibelius, and Schoenberg.
The programme concludes with Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, a cornerstone of the Romantic repertoire.
Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska makes her debut with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in this performance.
OVERVIEW
Kristiina Poska is an award-winning conductor in high demand on the international music scene. She has served as Chief Conductor of the Flanders Symphony Orchestra since the 2019/20 season and as Principal Guest Conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra since the 2021/22 season. In the summer of 2025, she will begin her tenure as Music Director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes.
Poska studied choral conducting at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn and orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She was a finalist at the Donatella Flick LSO Competition in 2010 and the Malko Competition in May 2012, where she also won the audience prize. In April 2013, she won the prestigious German Conductors’ Prize.
OVERVIEW
Dutch pianists Lucas (born 1993) and Arthur Jussen (born 1996) have been performing together since childhood, establishing themselves as one of today’s most sought-after piano duos. Praised for their energetic and symbiotic playing, they have collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
The brothers come from a musical family; their mother, Christianne van Gelder, is a flute teacher, and their father, Paul Jussen, is a timpanist with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. They studied under piano teacher Jan Wijn and have worked with esteemed pianists including Maria João Pires and Lang Lang. Their discography includes recordings of works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Mozart.
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