Composer
I’m very happy to announce the first ever Cecilia Damström Festival that will take place next weekend 8-9 March at the House of Nobility, in Helsinki, Finland! The contemporary music group Uuden Ajan Ensemble conducted by Tapio …
I have some very exciting news to share that has recently been made official: I’m currently writing my first full scale opera Ovlá, an original story and libretto by Juho-Sire/Siri Broch Johansen. …
Absolutely thrilled and deeply honoured that my orchestral piece Extinctions has been nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize 2024! Twelve works have been nominated for the 2024 Nordic Council …
Last week the live recording of my piece Permafrost, premiered by accordionist Sonja Vertainen and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jan Söderblom, was selected by the Finnish Broadcasting Company …
On Friday the 12th of April my orchestral piece Wasteland was live broadcast by the Tampere Philharmonic conducted by Olari Elts. Listen to the broadcast on demand here until the …
The new conferment cantata Science Frictions that I composed to a new text by Cia Rinne, got such a great review by Nuppu Koivisto in the largest Finnish tabloid Helsingin Sanomat, so I translated the whole …
This summer several feature articles have been published, the biggest article (in Finnish) with a cover feature in the leading classical music magazine Rondo. The whole article by Nelli Korhonen, …
Very happy to share with you that my piece ICE has won the Teosto Prize alongside works of Yona, Linda Fredriksson, and Eevil Stöö. More information on Teosto’s website and …
Happy Minna Canth Day – Day of Equality! What a wonderful week it has been, in the former home town of Minna Canth – Kuopio – working together with the …
Very happy to share with you that my piece ICE has been nominated for the Teosto-Prize 2022! The whole launch event of the Teosto Prize can be watched (in Finnish) …