Mika Väyrynen
Expanded concert-accordion repertoire through a complete Goldberg Variations recording and performances of new concertos.
- Years
- 1967–
- Country
- Finland
- Instrument
- Classical accordion
Mika Väyrynen is a Finnish classical accordionist who studied at the Sibelius Academy. His concert career began in the 1980s, and he has performed as a soloist with orchestras as well as in chamber music.
His recordings span Bach transcriptions and new works for accordion. Contemporary composers have written pieces for him, and he also teaches at the Sibelius Academy. In 2004 he recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations complete. As soloist in Erkki-Sven Tüür’s concerto Prophecy, he performed with the Helsinki Philharmonic under Olari Elts. These recordings show his work in both keyboard transcriptions and contemporary concertos.
Selected works, recordings and publications
- Goldberg Variations2004
Väyrynen's complete accordion recording of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Release / publisherAlbum · 2004
Publication source - Prophecy for Accordion and Orchestra2014
Erkki-Sven Tüür's concerto, with Väyrynen as soloist and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Olari Elts.
Release / publisherCD · Ondine, ODE 1234-2 (2014)
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