Matti Juhani Raekallio (born 14 October 1954 in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

) is a Finnish pianist. He has performed in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, having debuted at the

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in 1980. A professor at the Swedish Royal College of Music (1994–1995),

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (german: Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, italics=unset, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating ...

(2005–2010, 2014–) and the

Sibelius Academy The Sibelius Academy ( fi, Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, sv, Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It als ...

(1998–2008), Raekallio trained

Antti Siirala Antti Aleksi Siirala (born 16 May 1979 in Helsinki) is a Finnish pianist. Antti Siirala's international career was launched when he won First Prize in the 10th Vienna Beethoven competition as the youngest contestant, receiving the special awar ...

and

Gergely Boganyi Gergely () is a Hungarian given name and surname meaning Gregory (given name) and Gregory (surname), it may refer to: * Gábor Gergely (born 1953), male former table tennis player from Hungary * Gergely András Molnár (1897–2006), at age 10 ...

at the latter. He is a scholar on piano playing technique and a former member of the Research Committee on Culture and Society of the

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Finnish ''Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia''; Latin ''Academia Scientiarum Fennica'') is a Finnish learned society. It was founded in 1908 and is thus the second oldest academy in Finland. The oldest is the Fi ...

. He taught at the

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from 2007 to 2014 while giving master classes in many countries. In 2014, he decided to leave the Juilliard School and started to teach in

again. His most famous student is Igor Levit, who credits Raekallio as a major influence. Since 2015, he has been back in New York City, teaching at the Juilliard School. Raekallio has recorded about 20 CDs, including

Sergey Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

's complete Piano Sonatas and Aarre Merikanto's, Anton Rubinstein's and

Einar Englund Sven Einar Englund (June 17, 1916 – June 27, 1999) was a Finnish composer. Life Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland, Sweden, on June 17, 1916; he died June 27, 1999, in Visby, Sweden. He married twice: in 1941 to Meri Mirjam G ...

's Piano Concertos for Ondine.

References

External links

Arthur Rubinstein Competition, Tel Aviv

Ondine.

Juilliard School.

Finnish classical pianists 1954 births Living people Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover faculty 21st-century classical pianists Finnish expatriates in Germany Finnish expatriates in Sweden Finnish expatriates in the United States {{classical-pianist-stub