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	News Items Nobel Prize Celebration features Elina Vähälä. See and hear this award-winning violinist perform for a world-wide audience at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies, broadcast live on CNN. Press Kit Tour Programs Media "Vähälä... gave a fine performance of the Mozart concerto... an elegant, modern rendering, and clean technique and keen musicianship marked her playing." [Mozart: Violin concerto No.5] Seattle Post Intelligencer "a thoughtful musician who has all the technical accomplishment and confidence she needs to project her thoughts. Her intonation is sure and her tone fine, perfectly formed." New York Times "Vähälä's viscerally affecting approach united musical depth and technical finesse. Britten's solo lines use percussive attacks as much as drawn-out phrases, and hers were piercing.... spellbinding" [Britten Violin Concerto] The Oregonian "Vähälä was clearly the evening's star and the Schnittke her showpiece.... a vividly athletic performance that managed to appear untamed but was, in fact, perfectly in control. [Schnittke: Quasi una sonata] Los Angeles Times "In her highly musical performance of the Brahms’s D minor sonata her delicacy of sound and the rhythm in the third movement was marvelous, as was the drive in the finale. She breathed each movement, and even the whole sonata, as one." New York Times “I was bowled over by the playing of the young Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä. From the very opening, the breathtaking finesse of her playing was matched with a great depth of feeling, the combination of which communicated the essence of Sibelius's concerto. The orchestra must have been inspired by their wonderful soloist, since their accompaniment was first class. By any measure, this was a remarkable performance.” [LSSO, Barbican Hall] MusicOMH.com "Vähälä navigated expertly through the mercurial waters of this treacherous piece." [Britten Concerto] Oregon Music News Press Kit Critical Acclaim Press Photos Tour Programs Concerto Repertoire List Elina Vähälä website Media Brahms Violin Concerto Fantasy return to artist homepage return to top			Elina Vähälä, violin REPERTOIRE WITH ORCHESTRA AHO Violin concerto ARUTIUNIAN Violin concerto BACH Concerto in A Minor Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins and Orchestra BARBER Concerto BARTÓK Violin concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Concerto in D Major Concerto in C Major for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra Romance in F Major for Violin and Orchestra Romance in G Major for Violin and Orchestra BOTTESINI Gran Duo Concertante for violin and double bass BRAHMS Concerto in D Major Concerto in A Minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra BRUCH Concerto in G Minor CHAUSSON Poéme CORIGLIANO Violin concerto “The Red Violin” (autumn season 2006) ENGLUND Concerto for Violin and Orchestra GOLDMARK Concerto in A Minor RALF GOTHÓNI Concerto Grosso for Violin, Piano and Strings HAYDN Concerto in C Major Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings MENDELSSOHN Concerto in D Minor for Violin and Strings Concerto in E Minor Concerto in D Minor for Violin, Piano and Strings MOZART Concerto No. 3 in G Major Concerto No. 4 in D Major Concerto No. 5 in A Major Concerto for Violin and Piano (Mozart-Willby) Sinfonia Concertante PROKOFIEV Concerto No.2 in G Minor RAVEL Tzigane SAINT-SAENS Concerto No 3 in B Minor Introduction and Rondo Capriccio Havanaise SALLINEN Violin concerto SARASATE Zigeunerweisen SCHNITTKE Concerto Grosso No.1 for Two Violins and Orchestra SIBELIUS Concerto in D Minor STRAVINSKY Concerto in D Major TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto in D Major Meditation Valse-Scherzo VIEUXTEMPS Concerto No. 2 Concerto No. 4 Concerto No. 5 (also a version for string orchestra is available) VIVALDI The Four Seasons L’estro armonico WEILL Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op.12 WIENIAWSKI Concerto No.2 in D Minor