About Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025. Before Salonen's last concert as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 19 April 2009, the orchestra announced his appointment as its first Conductor Laureate. He co-founded the Baltic Sea Festival in 2003 with Michael Tydén and Valery Gergiev. Under Salonen's leadership, the Philharmonic became an extremely progressive and well-regarded orchestra.
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