Jan Lehtola
Lecturer in Organ Music
Sibelius Academy
The University of the Arts
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FRSO concert on chamber music festival
Jan Lehtola performed on chamber music festival of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at Musiikkitalo on March 8, 2024. He played Kalevi Aho's piece Laulu maasta for violin, oboe and organ with Leena Jaakkola and Francisco Almazan Alhambra. He played also Sortie (Le...
Federico Perotti’s new concerto will be premiered
Jan Lehtola will perform Federico Perotti's new organ concerto Essences with FRSO and Olari Elts at Musiikkitalo in Helsinki on September 27, 2024. Concerto won the prize in the International Kaisa Saariaho Organ Composition Competition in April 2023.
Premieres at Musiikkitalo on Feb. 8th 2025
The Musica nova concert commemorates Kaija Saariaho, who died on 2 June 2023 and whose contribution to the new organ was invaluable. In the concert, Jan Lehtola will premiere three solo works that were awarded in the International Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition...
Saariaho Maan varjot
Jan Lehtola performs Kaija Saariaho's Maan varjot with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Jukka-Pekka Saraste on January 11th 2024 at Musiikkitalo in Helsinki.
NEW RECORDING COMING
Heikki Klemetti: Works for Organ (Toccata Classics, 2024) 1. Preludi, Op 23 No 1 (1918–1919)2. *Canzona, Op 23 No 2 (1918–1919)3. *Canzona (Oskar Merikanto in memoriam), Op. 44 No 1 (1934)4. *Juhla-alkusoitto, Op 44 No 2 (1934)5. *Laetare Jerusalem, Op 44 No 3...
NEW RECORDING COMING IN 2024 (Toccata Classics, 2024)
Fantasia chromatica (1917?) OM038 Trauermarch (1888) OM279 Konzert-Etüden (1908) OM119 100 chorale preludes (excerpt) Felix Mendelssohn–Oskar Merikanto Praeludium und Fuge op. 35/1 Jan Lehtola on the Organ in Tampere Dom,...