Sauli Zinovjev

Zinovjev was born in Lahti, and studied composition in Sibelius Academy (2010–15) and in HfM-Karlsruhe (2013–14) under guidance of Tapio Nevanlinna and Wolfgang Rihm.

Zinovjev's focus has been on orchestral music and his works have been performed by for example Oslo Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in collaboration with musicians such as Klaus Mäkelä, Pekka Kuusisto, Sakari Oramo, André de Ridder and Okko Kamu .

[2] For the season 2021-2022 Zinovjev was granted a fellowship to the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia[3] and in 2019 he was appointed as the Composer-in-Residence of the 60th Turku music festival.

[4] On the concert season 2021–2022 Zinovjev's music will debut with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra[5] and Müncher Philharmoniker.

[6] In January 2022 the pianist Víkingur Ólafsson premiered a new Piano concerto by Sauli Zinovjev with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä.