Timeline
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Covid spring 2020 and Impromptu Concerts
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HPO Kids project to continue in 2020
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Home city tour to Vuosaari and Kannelmäki
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HPO and Susanna Mälkki release their first disc
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Visual Overture and Encounters Club
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Aleksi Malmberg begins as General Manager
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Nordic Council Music Prize awarded to Susanna Mälkki
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Finland100 and Helsinki Variations
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HPO and Sibelius Academy enter into chamber music partnership
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Susanna Mälkki begins as Chief Conductor of the HPO
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Prize for HPO programming
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Sibelius Violin Competition & tour with Christel Lee
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Principal residents of the Helsinki Music Centre launch an Orchestra Academy
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Tour to Germany and The Netherlands
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Tour to Austria and Germany
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Second godchild project begins
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The HPO moves to the Helsinki Music Centre
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Peter Zimmermann records the Sibelius Violin Concerto, Bard and Wood-Nymph with John Storgårds conducting
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John Storgårds as Chief Conductor of the HPO
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Tour to China under John Storgårds and Okko Kamu
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Luonnotar is recorded with Soile Isokoski as the soloist
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South American tour under Saraste and Segerstam
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First godchild project begins
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Central European tour – 100 years from the Paris tour
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Helsingin Sanomat: “Leif Segerstam’s Sibelius disc is unusually good!”
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Recording of Einojuhani Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 “Angel of Light” & Annunciations
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Leif Segerstam as the HPO’s 11th Chief Conductor
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Pekka Kuusisto wins the Sibelius Violin Competition
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The Pro Filharmonia is founded
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Sergiu Comissiona as conductor of the HPO
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Paavo Berglund begins recording the complete Sibelius symphonies
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Okko Kamu as conductor of the HPO
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Ulf Söderblom as conductor of the HPO
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Paavo Berglund as conductor of the HPO
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An interregnum of several conductors
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The HPO moves its concerts to Finlandia Hall
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Extensive US tour with Panula and Segerstam
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Seppo Heikinheimo joins the HPO administration
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The Sibelius centenary and a European tour
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Jorma Panula as conductor of the HPO
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Andrés Segovia as soloist with the HPO
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Heitor Villa-Lobos as guest conductor
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Tauno Hannikainen as conductor of the HPO
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Revival of the concerts for schoolchildren
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The HPO’s last Sibelius premiere, The Lonely Ski Trail, arr. for narrator, string orchestra and harp (cond. Martti Similä)
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Martti Similä as conductor of the HPO
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Haphazard conductor policy
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Holger Fransman is appointed principal horn
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The HPO represents Finland in London
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Schnéevoigt conducts the first concert for schoolchildren
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Ottorino Respighi guest conducts the HPO
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Georg Schnéevoigt conducts the City Orchestra
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Symphony No. 7, Tapiola and the Overture to The Tempest, all Finnish premieres (cond. Kajanus)
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Morceau romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob von Julin
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Symphony No. 6, Valse chevaleresque, Suite caractérisque, Suite champêtre
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Suite mignonne & Valse lyrique (cond. Karl Ekman)
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Symphony No. 5, final version, Humoresques for violin and piano (sol. Paul Cherkassky)
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The Jaeger March for male choir and orchestra
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50th birthday concert: Symphony No. 5, first version, Aallottaret, Finnish premiere, Serenades 1 & 2 for violin and orchestra (sol. Richard Burgin)
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Kajanus directs the Philharmonic Orchestra
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The First World War raises problems
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Negotiations begin over changing the name of the Philharmonic Orchestra to the Helsinki City Orchestra
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The orchestra war breaks out
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Scènes historiques I & II
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Symphony No. 4 (premiere), In memoriam, The Dryad, Night Ride and Sunrise (Finnish premiere)
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Gustav Mahler as guest conductor with the Philharmonic Orchestra
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Symphony No. 3, Pohjola’s Daughter (Finnish premiere), Belshazzar’s Feast, orchestral suite
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Pelléas et Mélisande, orchestral suite, Violin Concerto (Finnish premiere of the revised version) (cond. Kajanus)
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Violin Concerto, Cassazione, Have You Courage?, The Origin of Fire, for baritone, male choir and orchestra & Valse triste
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Symphony No. 2, Overture in A Minor, Impromptu for women’s choir and orchestra
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The Paris World Fair – the “Paris Tour”
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Send-off to the Paris World Fair tour: Finlandia, Symphony No. 1, revised version (cond. Kajanus)
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Symphony No. 1, The Song of the Athenians & Music for the Press Celebrations
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Lemminkäinen, revised version, The Rapid-Rider’s Brides
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Lemminkäinen, first version & Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower)
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The Helsinki Orchestra Association becomes the Helsinki Philharmonic Society
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Willy Burmester takes over as leader of the orchestra
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Johan Svendsen as guest conductor
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Kajanus’s practical orchestra school
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The first May Day matinée
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Eugène Ysaÿe as soloist with the orchestra
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