Home | Composers | Esa-Pekka Salonen Esa-Pekka Salonen updated 28 February 2001 Esa-Pekka Salonen (born Finland 1958) studied horn, conducting and composing at the conservatory in Helsinki during the 1970s. He initially considered himself to be a conducting composer, until in 1983 when, following a performance of Mahler's third symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London undertaken at ...