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Juho Pohjonen to perform in Canada and US
Posted on 1 March 2016

Following a highly successful North American tour in January, pianist Juho Pohjonen will be embarking on another tour of North America and Canada which will see him perform chamber music concerts in Toronto, Philadelphia and Aliso Viejo on 4, 8 and 12 March. The programme will include Haydn's Piano Trio in E-flat Minor, Janáček's Pohádka and Violin Sonata and Dvořák's Piano Trio in F Minor.  Juho’s chamber music partners are Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo and Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra, with whom Juho enjoys a frequent and successful collaboration.

Juho Pohjonen North American tour
Posted on 18 January 2016

Juho starts a series of recitals and chamber concerts across the US. The tour kicks off on 21 January at the St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids with the further performances in New York performing at the Recital Hall of State University of New York and Alice Tully Hall. The tour will take Juho further to Athens, Hudgson Hall and to Santa Fe where he will give recital at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.  The programme performed throughout these performances will include works by Arensky, Bartók, Fauré, Lutosławski, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schubert, Sibelius and Smetana.

In March Juho will return to the US in an “all Czech” programme including Janáček and Dvořák with performances in Toronto, Philadelphia and Aliso Viejo.

Juho Pohjonen teams up with Buffalo Philharmonic for two evenings celebrating Finnish music
Posted on 1 October 2015

Juho performs with Buffalo Philharmonic under the baton of their Music Director JoAnn Falletta this weekend, celebrating the works of two leading Finnish composers, Grieg and Sibelius. Juho will perform Grieg’s much loved Piano Concerto in A minor, whilst the orchestra will perform Sibelius Symphony No.5 as well as Sebastian Fagerlund’s Isola at Kleinhans Music Hall.

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“Juho Pohjonen’s piano playing was full of colour and imagination: he was discreet when appropriate, and impressively incisive, without harshness, when the instrument was called on to take the textural lead.”
—Seen and Heard International, March 2016
“The one constant in these scores is the piano, and pianist Juho Pohjonen was the linchpin of the concert, in no small part responsible for the superb performances throughout. Pohjonen played with clarity and rhythmic sureness. He was both a sensitive accompanist and a firm, but unobtrusive, leader.”
—New York Classical Review, July 2015
“Pohjonen really stood out for me as one of absolute best. Described by an American newspaper as “a beast, a daunting player”, and by another as “utterly delightful”, I can only echo this.”
—Bournemouth Echo, December 2015
“Pohjonen has both impeccable technique and a cleareyed approach to music, unleashing the fugue with stunning clarity and precise dynamic control (…)”
—The Washington Post, March 2013
“Juho Pohjonen, the Finnish pianist performed with unbelievable fluidity and dexterity, but never overpowered the other instruments or became buried under their collective performance.”
—Albany Times Union, August 2015
“Pohjonen shaped and floated his part with clarity and point, and the distinguished chamber-scaled backing kept Saint-Saëns’s more sentimental impulses under wraps.”
—Los Angeles Times, September 2014
“Mr. Pohjonen’s pearly touch, singing tone and sensitivity also enhanced Beethoven’s Trio in E-flat, given an impeccably elegant interpretation beginning with the introspective opening — rendered with a quiet, simmering tension.”
—New York Times, July 2015
“(...) what he did to illuminate the familiar Romantic concerto [Chopin Piano Concerto No 2] was remarkable. Pohjonen's pearly tone, articulate touch and supple legato phrasing gave pleasure to the ear (...) His sensitivity in unfurling Chopin's intimate musical grammar was always evident.”
—Chicago Tribune, June 2016
“The programme included Grieg’s Piano Concerto, with a fast-rising Finnish star, Juho Pohjonen, as the delightfully unassuming but bewitching soloist.”
—The Guardian, December 2015
“The best music-making of the evening actually came in a piece that was not by Sibelius. Grieg’s piano concerto was given a beautifully shaped performance by Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen (…).”
—Telegraph, December 2015

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Schubert Fantasy – Benjamin Beilman, violin and Juho Pohjonen, piano
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