Winner of the 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year award, Sakari Oramo is Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 2012. Oramo was the Chief Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras from 2008 to 2021, and the Principal Conductor of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Between 1998 and 2008 he was Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and between 2004 and 2018 he was Principal Conductor of the West Coast Kokkola Opera. After a decade as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, he has now served as their Honorary Conductor since 2012.
Recent highlights include returns to the Berliner Philharmoniker, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Staatskapelle Dresden, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He continues to champion the promotion of new and rarely performed works with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights also include concerts with the Czech Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Oramo has conducted several Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Sakari Oramo, violin
HarrisonParrott
Kaija Saariaho
70 Years
(Digital album)
Various
ODE 1407-2
Released 01/2023
Robert Schumann
Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra
Adagio and Allegro
Camille Saint-Saëns
Morceau de concert
Reinhold Glière
Horn Concerto
Markus Maskuniitty, horn
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor
ODE 1339-2
Released 04/2019
Finland 100
A Century of Finnish Classics
5 CD collection celebrating 100 years of Finland's independence
Orchestral Works I & II
Concertos
Vocal Works
Chamber Music
Various Finnish artist, orchestras and conductors
ODE 1300-2Q
Released 11/2016
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphonies 5 & 6
Finnish RSO
Sakari Oramo
ODE 1181-2
Released 08/2012
