Tommi Hyytinen
Tommi Hyytinen is Finnish horn soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue.
Tommi Hyytinen is one of the most versatile horn players of his generation. He is specialized both in modern music and in period instrument playing.
Hyytinen works at the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra as a horn player and at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki as a horn and natural horn teacher. He is also a member of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra.
Hyytinen graduated as Doctor of Music from Sibelius Academy in 2009. The topic of his artistic doctorate was the horn music of the Romantic period. He has released three critically-acclaimed solo albums. Hyytinen is an active chamber musician and is a founding member of Arktinen Hysteria Quintet, The Golden Horns quartet, Helsinki Brass Quintet, period wind quintet Zetes and period brass quintet Raiku. Composing and arranging are an important part of his musicianship.
Hyytinen is also active in the contemporary music scene and has premiered several pieces for horn, such as the horn concertos by Atso Almila, Tomi Räisänen, Olli Virtaperko, Uljas Pulkkis, Kai Nieminen and Matthew Whittall. Recent soloist performances include the premiere of the newly reconstructed horn concerto by Bernhard Crusell (1775-1838) with Finnish Baroque Orchestra at the Mozart Festival Würzburg and Crusell Music Festival Uusikaupunki in 2024.
In addition to his work as a musician Hyytinen is also a certified Pilates instructor and is specialized in the musicians’ use of the body. Hyytinen’s comprehensive horn method ”Playing from the Core” was published in 2021.
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