“This is just your normal, some might say dull, description of what I have been up to in my professional life thus far. Not much else fits into the whirlwind schedule of a musician, so I am fortunate to have my friends and southern hemisphere family, old and new, all here at the ACO.” Tipi

Timo-Veikko “Tipi” Valve is one of the most versatile musicians of his generation performing as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader on both modern and period instruments.

Valve studied at the Sibelius Academy in his home town of Helsinki and at the Edsberg Music Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on solo performance and chamber music in both institutions.

Tipi has performed as a soloist with all major orchestras in Finland and as a chamber musician throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the US. He works closely with a number of Finnish composers and has commissioned new works for the instrument. Most recently Valve has premiered concertos by Aulis Sallinen and Olli Virtaperko as well as two new cello concertos written for him by Eero Hämeenniemi and Olli Koskelin. ACO’s 2015 season includes the world premiere of an arrangement of Olli Mustonen’s Sonata for cello and chamber orchestra, commissioned by Valve and the ACO.

In 2006 Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with whom he frequently appears as soloist. He also curates the ACO’s chamber music series in Sydney. Tipi is a founding member of Jousia Ensemble and Jousia Quartet.

Valve’s instrument is attributed to both Giuseppe Guarneri (filius Andreæ) and Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri (del Gesù) from 1729, generously on loan from Mr Peter Weiss AO.

www.timo-veikkovalve.fi
 

Chair sponsored by Peter Weiss AO