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Cello
Timo-Veikko Valve's Performances
Friday 25 July 2025
AFCM 2025 Opening Night Concert - Reawaken!
Saturday 26 July 2025
AFCM Concert Conversations 1 - Concerto Conversations
Saturday 26 July 2025
AFCM Ray Golding Sunset Series 1 - Horn of Plenty
Saturday 26 July 2025
AFCM 2025 Governor's Gala - Heavenly Serenade
Sunday 27 July 2025
AFCM St James' Cathedral Concert: Sunday Retrospective
Sunday 27 July 2025
AFCM Sunday Night Concert: Bohemian Rhapsodies
Monday 28 July 2025
AFCM Concert Conversations 2
Monday 28 July 2025
AFCM Illuminates 2: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Serialists
Monday 28 July 2025
AFCM Ray Golding Sunset Series 3: Baroque Sunset
Monday 28 July 2025
AFCM Evening Concert 1: Final Words
Wednesday 30 July 2025
AFCM Ray Golding Sunset Series 4: Goodman's Clarinet
Wednesday 30 July 2025
AFCM Evening Concert 2: Duelling Composers: Staves Drawn!
Thursday 31 July 2025
AFCM Concert Conversations 4
Thursday 31 July 2025
AFCM Evening Concert 3: Baroque Temptations
Friday 1 August 2025
AFCM Ray Golding Sunset Series 6: The Final Sunset
Friday 1 August 2025
AFCM 2025 Closing Concert: Farewell, but not for long...
Timo-Veikko Valve
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Timo-Veikko Valve, affectionately known by audiences far and wide as “Tipi”, grew up in Finland, surrounded by a family who are “musically orientated normal people”. Music lessons were a natural part of his upbringing, and at six years old, Tipi was encouraged to pick up the cello after a teacher at the local music school declared with considerable conviction that “he looks just like a cellist!”. To this day, Tipi remains somewhat puzzled about what that statement actually meant. Whatever the subtext, the teacher seems to have been correct.
Valve was appointed Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2006, and his leadership soon became an integral part of the ACO. Recognised for his natural, creative, and generous musicianship, Tipi seeks to define the modern-day musician. Tipi effortlessly transitions between modern and period instruments and describes the cello as a flexible and adaptive partner, both in its role in an ensemble and as a soloist, across all forms of music. He reflects this versatility and enjoys a diverse career as a musician, curator and director, directing from the cello as he plays and appearing as a soloist with many of the major orchestras across his two home countries, Finland, and Australia.