UPCOMING EVENTS
Very excited about the Finnish Premiere of my new 20 min orchestra piece Wasteland co-commissioned and performed by Tampere Philharmonic conducted by Olari Elts. The concert is part of the contemporary music festival Tampere Biennale 2024. More information can be found here.
My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Berlin based Elaia Quartet at Sennestadt, close to Bielefeld, Germany. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters.
My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Berlin based Elaia Quartet at Stralsund, at the Northeastern coast of Germany. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters.
Looking forward to hear my orchestral piece ICE be performed by the Helsinki University Symphony Orchestra (Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat, YS) conducted Aku Sorensen at the beautiful Temppeliaukio Church in central Helsinki.
My orchestral piece ICE will be performed as part of the tour of the Helsinki University Symphony Orchestra (Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat, YS) conducted Aku Sorensen at Ekenäs Church in Southern Finland.
The Lauttasaari Music Festival takes place 13th to 16th of June and I’m honoured to be included in the 7th concert called “Meetings Between Authors and Composers“ where author Minna Lindgren and I will be discussing our work, and the renominated Uusi Helsinki Quartet will play my first string quartet Via Crucis at the Helsinki Main Library Oodi. Free admission!
My duo Celestial Beings will be performed by violinist Pippa Sieppala and violist Hanna Hohti at the Sysmä Summer Sounds in a concert called “Birds and Beings”. The concert includes music by Josephine Opsahl, Missy Mazzoli, Olli Mustonen and Peter Machajdik in addition to yours truly. More info here and tickets can be bought here.
PAST EVENTS
My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Berlin based Elaia Quartet in Edenkoben in Germany. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters.
My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Berlin based Elaia Quartet in Braunschweig, Germany. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters.
Looking forward to hear my orchestral piece ICE be performed by the fantastic Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by their marvellous chief conductor Nicholas Collon. More info can be found here.
Very happy to be invited again by Ville Komppa to the series Tunne orkesterisi (“Know your orchestra”), a Thursday series of panel discussions (in Finnish) about music with the composers and musicians who are performed in the Helsinki Music Centre. On Thursday the 29th of February I will be joined by University of Arts, Sibelius Academy’s Music History Professor Markus Mantere and of course Ville Komppa. Free entry! More information in Finnish can be found here.
Looking forward to hear my orchestral piece ICE be performed by the fantastic Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by their marvellous chief conductor Nicholas Collon. More info can be found here.
Linda Suolahti‘s debut album “Unrecorded.” was released on the 23rd of November 2023, so a warm welcome to the official release concert 24.02.2024! It includes unrecorded music by Finnish composers Helvi Leiviskä, Ann-Elise Hannikainen and me. Leiviskä and Hannikainen were recorded by Linda and pianist Tiina Karakorpi. Linda and Mari Viluksela have together recorded my piece Celestial Beings. The record can be purchased through Linda’s website here and tickets can be purchaised from 1.1.2024
The album will be released on streaming platforms later in the year 2024.
Looking forward to the world premiere of my new 22-minute accordion concerto Permafrost, commissioned and performed at the Kokkola Winter Accordion Festival. The world premiere will be performed in Kokkola by Sonja Vertainen and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jan Söderblom and including video art by Irene Suosalo. More info can be found here and tickets can be found here.
The Winter Accordion Festival‘s Seminar is themed “Can music be an ambassador of equality?”. I will be discussing this topic in Finnish alongside Doctor Nuppu Koivisto, Adjunct Professor in Musicology Juha Torvinen and the discussion will be moderated by journalist Anni Saari. Free entry. More information can be found here.
As a co-operation with the Winter Accordion Festival, I will be giving a lecture in Swedish about my life as a composer. More information here.
I will be giving a lecture in Finnish about life as a composer at the Conservatory of Kokkola. The event is free, more info can be found here.