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\"\"<\/a>Etel\u00e4-Suomen Sanomat
\nNovember 27, 2011<\/p>\n

Seeli Toivio has allready performed 70 concerts this year<\/em>
\n ESS\u2013Markus Luukkonen<\/em>
\n Helsinki<\/em><\/p>\n

Seeli Toivio is a strong willed woman. As a 5-year-old, she allready then diecided that she wants to be on stage, and that decision is still valid today.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Allready at the Lahti Conservatory music play school I was the one, who wanted be the first one to go on stage, Toivio laughs.<\/p>\n

\u2013 A little boy can fantasize about being a fireman, but later on the dreams can change. In my case my dreams have gone on and on. In that sense I’m like haunted.<\/p>\n

Toivio has systematically stayed away from orchestral and teaching work and has been concentrated onher own solo career. At the same time she has also studied, and started a family. In 2009 Toivio made her Doctoral Defence at the Sibelius Academy, her thesis was the left hand cello techniques.<\/p>\n

\u00a0More gigs<\/h2>\n

Now she has gigs.<\/p>\n

\u2013 This year I have done 70 concerts allready. For next year I have allready about 50 concerts planned.<\/p>\n

Why this kind of speed?<\/p>\n

Toivio handles her concert contacts on her own. She also has a lot of chamber music partners, of whom the closests are e.g. harpist Lily-Marlene Puusepp, kantele player Hedi Viisma, and of course the husband, saxophonist Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo.<\/p>\n

Toivio is leading two chamber music festivals in Helsinki: Baltic Sea Festival in April, and Septemberfest in the Autumn. Toivio has also uploaded her performances into YouTube.<\/p>\n

Fresh marketing spirit is not common among classical musicians.<\/p>\n

\u2013 My friend said me years ago, that “they won’t call you at home”. Therefore I have thought to go bravely, Toivio figures.<\/p>\n

In her concert scene, the biggest news finding a large Northern American concert agency. Toivio signed a contract with Price Rubin & Partners in August.<\/p>\n

\u2013 I was quite stunned, because I got contacted in Facebook. At first I thought that who on earth is that Jack who writes to me.<\/p>\n

The concert agency Jack Price leads has about two hundred artists. Toivio wishes that working together will bring her a lot of concerts abroad.<\/p>\n

Speed fascinates<\/h2>\n

Toivio has been actively recording. The newest album is Virtuoso Cello, published by Alba Records this Autumn, on which Toivio plays with her pianist brother Kalle Toivio.<\/p>\n

The programme on the album is brave: Toivio plays virtuoso works from Brahms’s Hungarian Dance to Wieniawski’s Scherzo-Tarantella and Monti’s Czardas. Those have usually been thought to be in the violinists’ repertoire.<\/p>\n

Toivio’s speed on the cello’s fingerboard is based on hard work but also on her unique playing technique.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Traditionally the fingers are pressed onto the fingerboard. I have developed a technique in which the fingers pull the strings in some places.<\/p>\n

Toivio’s way of playing started to form in her childhood, and even though allmost every teacher mentioned about it, Toivio kept her head.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Still it’s not looked on very well if someone plays in a different way. In any case, I play in the way which feels good to me, Toivio says firmly.<\/p>\n

Toivio admits that speed and dangerous situations intrigue her.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Since I was a child, I have had kicks on the fact that I can manage things fast. It might be the same feeling which a gymnast might have when jumping in the air.<\/p>\n

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