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Sleigh Ride Varakarajan 2,231 views "Xmas in July" - Leroy Anderson's classic hit Sleigh Ride performed by AACA Orchestra and Sasha Mäkilä in Aspen, July 2009. Dress rehearsal.
"Puro" - part 1 Varakarajan 1,255 views Jukka Tiensuu: Clarinet concerto "Puro"
"Puro" - part 2 Varakarajan 581 views Jukka Tiensuu: Clarinet concerto "Puro"
Caliban's Lied Varakarajan 755 views Caliban's Lied from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Die Herbstmänner Varakarajan 330 views Die Herbstmänner from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Canon Varakarajan 429 views Canon from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Scéne Varakarajan 243 views Scéne from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Intrada Berceuse Varakarajan 1,502 views Intrada and Berceuse from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Zwischenspiel Ariel's Lied Varakarajan 901 views Zwischenspiel and Ariel's Lied from The Tempest, suite No. 1 by Jean Sibelius
Beecham speaks.mov Varakarajan 2,208 views "There's only one way to rehearse an orchestral piece, which is what I do. I take either a Mozart symphony or a Strauss tone poem. I play the whole thing through beginning ...

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SASHA MÄKILÄ
Assistant Conductor, The Cleveland Orchestra

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Feb 3, 2012

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The young Finnish conductor Sasha Mäkilä has been educated in some of the most prestigious conducting schools in the world - in the St Petersburg State Conservatory, named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Russia, and in the Sibelius Academy, Finland. He came to prominence after winning Third Prize in the 6th International Vakhtang Jordania Conducting Competition in USA (2006).

Sasha Mäkilä is much sought-after as a guest conductor both in Finland and Russia. In Finland he has conducted orchestras such as Vaasa City Orchestra, Saimaa Sinfonietta, St Michel Strings, Jyväskylä Sinfonia, La Tempesta Chamber Orchestra, Joensuu City Orchestra and Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. In Russia he has worked with the Karelian State Symphony Orchestra, Hermitage Camerata Chamber Orchestra, Tambov Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Russian National Library, St Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, St Petersburg Congress Orchestra and the orchestra of the St Petersburg State Conservatory. Sasha has also conducted orchestras in France, Denmark, South Africa and the United States.

Sasha Mäkilä made his operatic debut in 2004 with Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor at the Helsinki Conservatory, after having assisted in productions of Britten's Midsummernight's Dream and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. In 2005 he conducted the Finnish premiere of "Les Enfants Terribles" by American composer Philip Glass and in 2006 he premiered another Glass opera "In the Penal Colony" - both staged by the Helsinki Skaala Opera. In February 2009 Sasha premiered a new operatic work "Lovers of Mankind" at the Musica Nova festival in Helsinki.

From 2007 to 2010 Sasha Mäkilä worked with the Orchestre National de France as Kurt Masur's assistant conductor. In 2008 he assisted maestro Masur during two complete cycles of Beethoven symphonies, in Paris and in Bonn. Starting September 2010 he is Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra in the United States. In the educational field Sasha Mäkilä has organized several conducting master classes and is a visiting lecturer in the Helsinki University and Sibelius Academy in Finland.

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The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France

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