ANAM: A Viennese Matinée

PERFORMERS

Musicians from Australian National Academy of Music
Paavali Jumppanen, piano
Zoë Black, violin

About ANAM

The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is an international, dynamic and outward-facing cultural institution, training and performance company, with a demonstrated commitment to engaging with its communities. It is internationally renowned as the only purely performance classical music training academy in Australia, and one of the few in the world. 

About Paavali Jumppanen

In the span of recent seasons, the imaginative and versatile Finnish virtuoso Paavali Jumppanen has established himself as a dynamic musician of seemingly unlimited capability who has already cut a wide swath internationally as an orchestral and recital soloist, recording artist, artistic director, and frequent performer of contemporary and avant-garde music.

Mr. Jumppanen has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and Australia and collaborated with great conductors including David Robertson, Sakari Oramo, Susanna Mälkki, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Jaap van Zweden. He has commissioned numerous works and collaborated with the composers Boulez, Murail, Dutilleux, and Penderecki. The Boston Globe praised the “overflowing energy of his musicianship” and The New York Times cited his “power and an extraordinary range of colors.”

In the recent years Paavali Jumppanen has dedicated much of his time to performing cycles of the complete Beethoven and Mozart piano sonatas. He has frequently performed all of Beethoven’s piano concertos and chamber sonatas. He attended the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and later worked with Krystian Zimerman at the Basel Music Academy in Switzerland where he also studied organ, fortepiano, and clavichord. Russian born pianist Konstantin Bogino has remained an important mentor throughout his career.

Mr. Jumppanen’s expanding discography includes “the best recorded disc of Boulez’s piano music so far” (the Guardian writing about the three sonatas recorded on a DGG disc made at the composer’s request) and the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas on Ondine.  He spent the 2011–12 season as a visiting scholar in Harvard University’s Music Department studying musicology and theory to deepen his immersion in Viennese 18th century music. He leads curation at the Väyläfestival, a multi-arts festival in northern Scandinavia and serves as the Artistic Director to the Australian National Academy of Music.

About Zoë Black

Throughout her stellar career, violinist Zoë Black has been showered with accolades from musicians and critics alike, early testimony to which were many awards including the National Youth Concerto Competition and the ABC Young Performers Award. After studies at the Guildhall School of Music and the Vienna Hochschule, Zoë’s professional career included a period as assistant leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, guest leader of the Australian String Quartet, concert master performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra, artist in residence for the Australian National Academy of Music and solo performances with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.  Zoë also co-founded the innovative duo with pianist/composer Joe Chindamo whose re-versioning of the Goldberg Variations was premiered by the duo at Carnegie Hall. Zoë is presently on faculty at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).