BBT CELEBRATED 17-19 MAY 2013
Martin Fröst
clarinet BBT Award Winner 2003
The most important aspect of this unique award is of course that it offers me as a performer the freedom to invest a very generous sum of money into my career in ways that I find most creative and constructive. With the support, the know-how and the contacts of the Artistic Committee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust it will be possible for me to use my award to achieve some of the high artistic goals I have set for myself. I am very grateful and excited about the possibilities that lie ahead! 
"Intensely lyrical, thematically memorable, and beautifully scored, this piece easily should find a home in concert halls throughout the world." (David Hurwitz, Classics Today). Kalevi Aho's concerto was commissioned by BBT for Martin Fröst. A film about their collaboration is also available on this website.
This showcase CD of music by Schumann featuring BBT 2003 Award Winners Emma Bell, Jonathan Biss, Martin Fröst and Jerusalem Quartet, was published with BBC Music Magazine to coincide with BBT’s 2004 tour with Mitsuko Uchida.
Hillborg’s clarinet concerto is truly unique, demanding the soloist not only to play but to dance and mime, with mask. Commissioned by Swedish Radio Orchestra (who also perform in this film version under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen), the work was dedicated to Martin Fröst. It is hard to imagine any other clarinettist able to perform it.
Director and cinematographer: Manne Lindwal, Choreography: David Dalmo, Production: Kompis Musk & Bid. Filmed in Sweden, June 2003 and supported by Borletti-Buitoni Trust.
BBT profiles Kalevi Aho and Martin Fröst. Produced in 2004, before a note of Kalevi Aho’s clarinet concerto was written, our film shows two distinctive characters about to embark on an unknown journey towards a major new work. We filmed in London at Wigmore Hall, BBC Maida Vale and City Hall, with archive footage courtesy of MTV3 Finland and Sveriges Television (SVT). Aho’s clarinet concerto was co-commissioned for Martin Fröst by Borletti-Buitoni Trust and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.