# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esa-pekka-salonen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:15.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esa-pekka-salonen"
name: "Esa-Pekka Salonen"
slug: "esa-pekka-salonen"
description: "Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025."
tagline: "Finnish conductor and composer (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esa-Pekka_at_Apple_store_in_Berlin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1958-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump