Enticott Music Management (EMM) announces that Esa-Pekka Salonen will join their roster for worldwide management, effective immediately.

“Kathryn Enticott represents my friends and colleagues in the field with strength and grace,” said Salonen. “I have long admired Kathryn’s thoughtful work and superb reputation, and am very happy to start a new chapter with her. I am grateful to Fidelio Arts for fourteen terrific years of management.”

EMM will represent Salonen in association with Alex Monsey and Chloe Kiely at IMG Artists.

Enticott wrote, “Having respected Esa-Pekka’s remarkable work for so many years, it’s a huge honour for me to collaborate with him. I want to thank Mark Newbanks of Fidelio Arts for ensuring a seamless management transition.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen is known as both a composer and conductor. He is the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the Philharmonia Orchestra, where he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor from 2008 to 2021. He is also Conductor Laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was Music Director from 1992 to 2009, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was Chief Conductor from 1985 to 1995. As a member of the faculty of Los Angeles’s Colburn School, he develops, leads, and directs the pre-professional Negaunee Conducting Program, which also houses his score collection and has been endowed in perpetuity by the Negaunee Foundation. Salonen co-founded, and from 2003 to 2018 served as the Artistic Director of, the annual Baltic Sea Festival.

As Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony since 2020—a role he will hold through the end of this season—Salonen has established an unprecedented leadership model in which he is advised by eight Collaborative Partners, co-founded the statewide California Festival with Gustavo Dudamel and Rafael Payare, led a synesthetic production of Scriabin’s Prometheus: the Poem of Fire in collaboration with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Cartier’s head perfumer Mathilde Laurent—recently made the subject of a documentary produced by Cartier in partnership with Mezzo TV—and has produced numerous recordings, including the world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater (GRAMMY® nominated: Best Opera Recording; Best Contemporary Classical Composition) and a new, GRAMMY® nominated recording of Stravinsky’s The Firebird (Best Orchestral Performance).

In recent seasons, Salonen has conducted the 2023 Nobel Prize Concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, won the prestigious Polar Music Prize, and led many projects with major orchestras and institutions. Among them are the Berlin Philharmonic, where he was composer-in-residence for the 2022–23 season, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, where he spent two seasons in residence as both a composer and conductor, and the Orchestre de Paris, he led a major staged production of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” with Romeo Castellucci during the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; this production was revived at the Grande Halle de Villette in November.

Earlier this season, Salonen notably led the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a newly-reconstructed version of Modest Mussorgsky’s unfinished final opera, Khovanshchina, with Simon and Gerard McBurney at the Helsinki and Baltic Sea festivalsFeaturing never-before-heard music from a recently-discovered manuscript of Mussorgsky’s, and uniting Shostakovich’s instrumentation with Stravinsky and Ravel’s ending, this collaborative project will be reprised at the 2025 Salzburg Easter Festival this April.

The coming months will also see Salonen lead programs dedicated to Pierre Boulez at the Orchestre de Paris and Los Angeles Philharmonic, both with new choreography by Benjamin Millepied performed by LA Dance Project.  Next season, Salonen will premiere his new Horn Concerto, commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnland-Institut, and Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin.

Salonen is as well-known for his intuitive and cerebral compositions as he is for his work as a conductor. Major compositions include concertos for piano (composed for Yefim Bronfman), violin (for Leila Josefowicz, featured in an ad campaign for the Apple iPad), and cello (for Yo-Yo Ma), all of which appear on recordings conducted by Salonen himself; the LA Phil commissions Fog, dedicated to Frank Gehry, Gemini, premiered in 2019, and Tiu, premiered in 2024 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall’s opening; Karawane, a work for voice and orchestra after a poem by Dadaist writer Hugo Ball, premiered at the Tonhalle Zürich and, later, the subject of an installation by the Barbican Centre;  and his 2023 Sinfonia concertante for organ and orchestra, composed for organists Iveta Apkalna and Olivier Latry.

Salonen is also known for his enthusiasm for cutting-edge technology and multimedia collaboration, notably including early forays into virtual reality and artificial intelligence. His digital projects featured prominently in his tenure with the Philharmonia Orchestra, including the traveling immersive audio-visual installations RE-RITE and Universe of Sound, virtual reality films of Sibelius and Beethoven’s fifth symphonies and Mahler’s third, and an app for iPad that has sold tens of thousands of copies and was the subject of an Apple ad. In 2020, Salonen and the Finnish National Opera launched the Fedora Digital Prize-winning opera installation Laila, in which audience movement within the performance space—a 360º projection dome—actively alters the music and setting. Salonen has also spearheaded a number of digital projects with the San Francisco Symphony, including Throughline, premiered in 2020 as part of a digital event that launched his tenure as Music Director, and featuring a new composition by Nico Muhly featuring each member of the Collaborative Partners; LIGETI: PARADIGMS, a 35-minute exploration of three Ligeti pieces with visuals by media artist Refik Anadol and Collaborative Partner Carol Reiley; and a digital production of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale directed by Netia Jones.

Photo: Benjamin Suomela