Guest performance: Salzburg Easter Festival 2/5

Osterfestspiele Salzburg (Salzburg Easter Festival), one of the most prestigious of its kind in Europe, has invited the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen to be its Orchestra in Residence in spring 2025. The honour has previously been held by such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and the invitation can be regarded as a historic distinction for a Finnish orchestra.
At the 2025 festival the FRSO will perform Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina (April 12 & 21) and give three concerts (April 13, 14 & 20): of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 on April 13 & 20 and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and the Cello Concerto by Esa-Pekka Salonen on April 14. The soloist in the concerto will be the young Finnish cellist Senja Rummukainen and the conductor of all the performances will be Esa-Pekka Salonen.