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One of the brightest young instrumental talents to emerge from Finland today,
Juho Pohjonen has attracted great attention as one of the Nordic countries’ most
intriguing and talented pianists.
He has given recitals inHongKong, Dresden, Hamburg, Helsinki, London (Wigmore
Hall), New York (Carnegie Hall), San Francisco, Vancouver and Warsaw and at the
Lucerne Piano, Savonlinna and Bergen festivals. He has performed with orchestras
including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta
Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Danish National,
Finnish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic and
Lahti Symphony – with which he toured Japan. Most recently, Juho has worked
with such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marek Janowski, Hugh Wolff and
Lionel Bringuier.
Juho Pohjonen was selected by András Schiff as the winner of the 2009 Klavier
Festival Ruhr Scholarship. In addition, he has won numerous prizes in both Finnish
and international competitions, including First Prize at the 2004 Nordic Piano
Competition in Nyborg, Denmark, First Prize at the International Young Artists
2000 Concerto Competition, Stockholm, the Prokofiev Prize at the AXA Dublin
International Piano Competition 2003, and a prize at the Helsinki International
Maj Lind Piano Competition 2002.
Juho’s studies began in 1989, when he entered the Junior Academy of the Sibelius
Academy, Helsinki. He studied with Meri Louhos and Hui-Ying Liu at the Sibelius
Academy, where he completed his Master’s Degree in 2008. In addition, he has
participated in several masterclasses with such distinguished pianists as András
Schiff, Leon Fleisher, Jacob Lateiner and Barry Douglas.