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Sasha Mäkilä Appointed Music Director of St. Michel Strings Chamber Orchestra in Finland
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Finnish conductor Sasha Makila has been appointed Music Director of St. Michel Strings chamber orchestra in Mikkeli, Finland, effective immediately. The news was announced last week by the chamber orchestra's new General Manager Nikke Isomottonen at the press conference held in Mikaeli Concert Center, the home venue of St. Michel Strings.
"I am very pleased to announce that Maestro Makila will take over the artistic leadership of St. Michel Strings," said Mr. Isomottonen. "He comes with a wealth of international experience with top orchestras and top artists, and will put that experience to work in developing our orchestra further. We are very excited to have him here."
"For the past ten years I have been mainly conducting outside of Finland, and I remember St. Michel Strings as one of the first Finnish orchestras to re-engage me with when I was still relatively unknown in my home country. I am extremely delighted to accept this opportunity to work as Music Director of St. Michel Strings and to be able to spend so much more time in Finland," said Sasha Makila.
Maestro Makila's previous posts include an assistantship with Maestro Kurt Masur and the Orchestre National de France in 2007-2010, and with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2010 to the present. He has an active guest conducting schedule that takes him across Finland where he regularly conducts the country's leading orchestras, as well as to Russia, the U.K., other European countries and to North and South America and South Africa. This season included debuts with the orchestras of Norrkoping (Sweden), Tampere (Finland) and the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finland).
Sasha Makila holds degrees in conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Finland and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. He was a conducting fellow in Aspen at the American Academy of Conducting (2009) and a prize winner at the Sixth Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition (USA, 2006) as well as finalist in the Suwon International Conductors Competition (South Korea, 2005). His website is at http://www.sashamakila.com/.
St Michel Strings, founded in 1903, is the third oldest orchestra in Finland and widely known for its adventurous programming. It makes its home in the acoustically superb Martti Talvela Hall which seats 700 people. Visit their Finnish-language website at http://www.mikkelinkaupunginorkesteri.fi/.
Mikkeli, a city of 50,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Province of Eastern Finland and it is situated by the Lake Saimaa. It is the home of two annual international music festivals - Gergiev Festival in July and Ballet Mikkeli in October. Visit the city online at http://www.mikkeli.fi/en/english/index.
For more information about Maestro Makila's appointment, contact Nikke Isomottonen, General Manager, St. Michel Strings at 358 50 581 3377 or by email - nikke.isomottonen@mikkeli.fi.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
Finnish conductor Sasha Makila has been appointed Music Director of St. Michel Strings chamber orchestra in Mikkeli, Finland, effective immediately. The news was announced last week by the chamber orchestra's new General Manager Nikke Isomottonen at the press conference held in Mikaeli Concert Center, the home venue of St. Michel Strings.
"I am very pleased to announce that Maestro Makila will take over the artistic leadership of St. Michel Strings," said Mr. Isomottonen. "He comes with a wealth of international experience with top orchestras and top artists, and will put that experience to work in developing our orchestra further. We are very excited to have him here."
"For the past ten years I have been mainly conducting outside of Finland, and I remember St. Michel Strings as one of the first Finnish orchestras to re-engage me with when I was still relatively unknown in my home country. I am extremely delighted to accept this opportunity to work as Music Director of St. Michel Strings and to be able to spend so much more time in Finland," said Sasha Makila.
Maestro Makila's previous posts include an assistantship with Maestro Kurt Masur and the Orchestre National de France in 2007-2010, and with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2010 to the present. He has an active guest conducting schedule that takes him across Finland where he regularly conducts the country's leading orchestras, as well as to Russia, the U.K., other European countries and to North and South America and South Africa. This season included debuts with the orchestras of Norrkoping (Sweden), Tampere (Finland) and the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finland).
Sasha Makila holds degrees in conducting from the Sibelius Academy in Finland and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. He was a conducting fellow in Aspen at the American Academy of Conducting (2009) and a prize winner at the Sixth Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition (USA, 2006) as well as finalist in the Suwon International Conductors Competition (South Korea, 2005). His website is at http://www.sashamakila.com/.
St Michel Strings, founded in 1903, is the third oldest orchestra in Finland and widely known for its adventurous programming. It makes its home in the acoustically superb Martti Talvela Hall which seats 700 people. Visit their Finnish-language website at http://www.mikkelinkaupunginorkesteri.fi/.
Mikkeli, a city of 50,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Province of Eastern Finland and it is situated by the Lake Saimaa. It is the home of two annual international music festivals - Gergiev Festival in July and Ballet Mikkeli in October. Visit the city online at http://www.mikkeli.fi/en/english/index.
For more information about Maestro Makila's appointment, contact Nikke Isomottonen, General Manager, St. Michel Strings at 358 50 581 3377 or by email - nikke.isomottonen@mikkeli.fi.
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