For the ›Süddeutsche Zeitung‹, Olli Mustonen is a musician who »creates surprises, intensities and amazements that are not commonplace in the music business«. With boundless energy, a creative and highly reflective approach to music, this Finnish winner of the Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau is one of the few pianists whose signature style is instantly recognisable. His exceptional musical understanding is also highly regarded by many of the world’s most important orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmoniker, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and all the London orchestras.
Olli Mustonen has also travelled the world giving recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Symphony Center Chicago, at the Diaghilev Festival Perm, the Dresden Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival, New York’s Zankel Hall and in the Sydney Opera House. He has also collaborated with the cellist Steven Isserlis for over thirty years. In addition, this Helsinki-born pianist, conductor and composer frequently performs his own works on international chamber music stages. Olli Mustonen also performs one of his own pieces with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ensemble.