Kari Kriikku
Born: 1960
Nationality: Finnish
Kari Kriikku is a Finnish classical clarinetist.
He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later with Alan Hacker in England and with Leon Russianoff and Charles Neidich in the United States.
His recordings of the concertos of Carl Maria von Weber was voted "best ever" recording by Classic CD and BBC Music Magazine. In 2006, his recording of Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto (2002) won both BBC Music Magazine's award and the Gramophone Award.
Concentrating on contemporary music, Kriikku has served as an interpreter of works for the clarinet by composers such as Magnus Lindberg, Vinko Globokar, Kaija Saariaho, Jukka Tiensuu, Jouni Kaipainen, Kimmo Hakola, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pawel Szymanski, Eero Hämeenniemi, Olli Koskelin and Usko Meriläinen. He has performed Tiensuu's clarinet concerto PURO over 30 times.
Kari Kriikku is a founding member of the Avanti!
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Jukka Tiensuu: Vie, Missa & False Memories I-III | World Première Recordings
Kari Kriikku (clarinet) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
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The Essentials: Mozart
Peter Lang (piano), Gianluca Luisi (piano), Greta de Reyghere (soprano), Renaat Deckers (tenor), Jan van der Crabben (bass), Alessandro Deljavan (piano), Kurt Berger (flute), János Fehérvári (viola), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Rainer Honeck (violin), Tobias Lea (viola), Hans Friedrich (flute), Angelica Berger (harp), Oleh Krysa (violin), Jenő Jandó (piano), Karl Leister (clarinet), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Peter Hanzel (bassoon), Priti Coles (soprano), Francesco Nicolosi (piano), Alessio Bax (piano), Sebastian Weigle (horn), Herbert Weissberg (flute), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Renato Bruson (baritone), Sona Ghazarian (soprano), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Janusz Monarcha (bass), Renato Girolami (bass), John Dickie (tenor), Hellen Kwon (soprano), Kurt Rydl (bass), Michele Pertusi (bass-baritone), Juliane Banse (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (soprano), Josef Protschka (tenor), Sarah Fox (soprano), Benjamin Schmidinger (soprano), Albin Lenzer (alto), Michael Knapp (tenor), Ernst Jankowitsch (bass) Capella Brugensis, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Košice Teachers' Choir, Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Hungarian Festival Chorus, Wolfgang Sobotka, Christoph Eberle, Patrick Peire, Rafael Kubelík, Herbert Kraus, Richard Edlinger, Eugen Jochum, Gerard Schwarz, Petter Sundkvist, John Storgårds, Martin Kerschbaum, Theodore Kuchar, András Ligeti, Peter Marschik, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Jo
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Society of Finnish Composers 50th Anniversary
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Anssi Karttunen (cello) Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
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M Lindberg, B Sørensen, Saariaho and Tiensuu: Chamber Works
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Kaija Saariaho (electronics), Jukka Tiensuu (harpsichord) Arditti String Quartet
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