Anu Komsi
Soprano Anu Komsi is one of the most versatile singers in Finland, with a repertory stretching from the Baroque to progressive jazz. She has appeared in major houses all over Northern Europe and the U.S. Komsi was born in Kokkola, Finland, on January 9, 1967. The cellist Piia Komsi is her twin sister. Komsi studied voice and violin at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, making her vocal debut in Finland in 1993. She quickly found engagements both inside and outside Finland, appearing in numerous productions in regional German houses late in the 2000s decade. She has continued to perform opera, maintaining a longstanding association with the Hannover State Opera and commissioning a new work, Into the Little Hill, from composer George Benjamin; she recorded the work for the Nimbus label in 2008.
Komsi has also become a fixture around Europe and North America as a soloist in orchestral concerts. She has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Ensemble InterContemporain, the London Sinfonietta, the Czech Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Vienna Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra of London, the New York Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. In her home town she founded the West Coast Kokkola Opera company, and she has continued to play a leadership role in the organization.
Komsi's catalog of recordings has focused more closely on contemporary music, especially Finnish, than has her general record of concert performances. In 1996 she began a long series of albums on Finland's Ondine label with a recording of György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments. She has devoted several recordings to the music of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. In 2013, with an album featuring Aarre Merikanto's Symphony No. 2 and Ekho, she moved to the Alba label, for which she participated in Reflections of a River Valley: A Portrait of the Composer Erik Fordell, in 2018. Komsi is married to conductor Sakari Oramu.
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D'om le vrai sens - Laterna Magica - Leino Songs
Kari Kriikku, Anu Komsi, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Classical - Released by Ondine on 6 Sep 2011
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Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 - Gade: Tango jalousie
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Anu Komsi, Sakari Oramo
Classical - Released by Dacapo on 7 Sep 2018
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SAARIAHO, K.: From the Grammar of Dreams / Prelude-Confession-Postlude / Grammaire des reves / Adjo (Komsi, Salomaa)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on 1 Jan 2000
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Lindberg: Accused & Two Episodes
Anu Komsi, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Classical - Released by Ondine on 1 May 2020
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Live)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Anu Komsi, Roger Norrington
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 18 Oct 2019
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Merikanto: Symphony No. 2 - Ekho
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Anu Komsi, Petri Sakari
Classical - Released by Alba on 17 Apr 2013
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Dillon: Philomela
Anu Komsi, Susan Narucki, Lionel Peintre, Remix Ensemble
Classical - Released by AEON on 1 Jan 2009
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MAHLER: Symphony No. 4
Anu Komsi, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington
Classical - Released by SWR Classic on 18 Oct 2019
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Being Beauteous
Anu Komsi, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Uusinta Chamber Ensemble, Juha Kangas, Sakari Oramo
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Alba on 1 Jul 2013
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Shostakovich: Suite On Finnish Themes / Symphony for Strings / Chamber Symphony
Anu Komsi, Tom Nyman, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by BIS on 1 Jan 2001
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Petri Nieminen Ensemble: Night Walk / Werthers 1, 2, and 3 / Solaris / Last Year's Fall
Petri Nieminen Ensemble, Anu Komsi, Petri Ikkelä, Veli-Pekka Niemi, Harri Lehtinen
Classical - Released by Alba on 1 Jan 2000
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21st Century Portraits
Ensemble Die Reihe , Anika Vavic, Anu Komsi, Taiwan Philharmonic, NSO, Georg Fritzsch, Wen-Pin Chien
Classical - Released by CapriccioNR on 3 Sep 2012
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Hoffmann: Ahti Karjalainen
Anu Komsi, Piia Komsi, Herman Wallen, Annika Myllari, Kokkola Opera Ensemble, Jyrki Lasonpalo
Opera - Released by Alba on 12 Aug 2016
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Kurtag, G.: Kafka-Fragmente (Kafka Fragments)
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Ondine on 1 Jan 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo