Final Concert

The festive final concert of the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam brings together the Norwegian Engegård Quartet and the Scottish Maxwell Quartet: two well-kept secrets in string quartet country, fully deserving of a place in the spotlight. They shine in an original work: the First nonet by Finnish composer and pianist Olli Mustonen. This original mind performs his own Piano Quintet with the Engegård and Milhaud’s La création du monde in an arrangement for the same instrumentation.

Olli Mustonen’s extraordinary musicality cannot be praised enough. As a composer, he treads his own path, writing in a contemporary idiom on which there is no stamp. The pianist Mustonen leaves no listener unmoved; his eccentric, human playing and his great stage presence make a concert a true experience.