UPCOMING EVENTS
Violinist Kevin Huang will perform my piece Sydänlaulu at his recital at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Pianist Diana Ketler will perform my piece Epitaph at the concert “The Trout” in Stundars at Korsholm Music Festival. A bus from Vaasa City Hall (10 € return trip) leaves at 16.45. Tickets can be found here and more information here.
My new solo cello work Aveo will be performed by the Korsholm Music Festival’s artistic director Jan-Erik Gustafsson at Tikanoja Art Residence. More info can be found here.
My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Erinys Quartet at the festival Korsholm Music Festival at the Tikanoja Art Residence. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters. Tickets to the concert can be found here.
Vickan & Väinö is a bilingual children’s opera that tells the story of the construction of Finland’s new capital, Helsinki, by the architect Engel and two mice who save Engel’s plans. It is an opera about Finland’s multicultural history and friendship without a common language. The third opera by hugely popular contemporary composer Cecilia Damström is based on the script by Marina Motaleff-Kelly. The opera is aimed at 4–10-year-olds. (In Finnish and Swedish.) Cast: Hedvig Paulig, soprano, Ville Salonen, tenor, Aku Rantama, baritone and Sonja Vertainen, accordion. Performances at 13.00 and 14.30 o’clock. Tickets: 10€ for adult. More info can be found here.
My string orchestra piece Fretus, dedicated to the oceans of the world, will be performed by Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra lead by orchestral leader Malin Broman at the closing concert of Korsholm Music Festival taking place at Vaasa City Hall. More info can be found here.
My piece Characters, a solo piano suite of miniatures will be performed by the virtuoso Fanny Söderström at the eight’s edition of the Kokonainen Festival. Find more info about the festival 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.
PAST EVENTS
The German premiere of my piece ICE will be performed by the Bamberg Symphony conducted by the outstanding Ruth Reinhardt. Link to the whole season program here.
EDIT: This event has been cancelled due to illness.
Honoured to be invited to be one of the speakers at the Discussion Forum of the International Accordion Competition Klingenthal in Germany.
Three movements from the solo accordion suite Shapes will be obligatory pieces for the competitors in a certain age category at the International Accordion Competition Kingenthal in Germany. The movements that are eligible for the competition are I. “The Rhomb”, III. “Circles and Ellipses” and V. “Dots”.
The piece was performed by Luca Bello (Italy), Bela Brichzin (Germany), Hanyu Huang (China), Johannes Koivisto (Finland) and Jonas Vozbutas (Lithuania).
My suite Estampas del mar composed to poems by Federico García Lorca will be performed at the 100th anniversary concert of the women’s choir Filianna conducted by Sabrina Ljungberg at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti. More info (in Finnish) can be found here and tickets can be found here.
Akademiska sångföreningen (The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki) led by Elisa Huovinen will sing my piece Sailing to Windward (composed to a text by Michael Binnie) at their 185th Anniversary Concert at Helsinki Music Centre. Tickets can be found here.
After having moved this concert twice due to restrictions, finally Tampere Raw will perform my first Piano Quintet Minna – Pictures from the Life of Minna Canth at Stockholm Concert Hall. More information about the concert can be found here.
My string orchestra piece Infirmus, a piece dedicated to everyone suffering from a chronic illness, will be performed by the joined forces of Vaasa City Orchestra and Seinäjoki City Orchestra conducted by Henri Sigfridsson. More info about the season can be found here and tickets here.
I’m looking forward to give a guest lecture about my music to the composition department at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden.
The new suite Renewables for solo accordion consists of eight movements, which are all obligatory pieces in the 50th anniversary accordion competition Minä soitan harmonikkaa (“I play accordion”) organised by The Finnish Association for Accordion Teachers. The piece was commissioned by The Finnish Association for Accordion Teachers for the 50th anniversary year of the competition.
The competition has three age categories, C for musicians who are 10-11 year old, B for 12-13 year old players and A for 14-16 year old accordionists. Renewables consists of 8 pieces of which the first three are suitable for category C, pieces 4-6 are suitable for category B and the last two pieces are for category A. Renewables is also composed so that it can be performed as a suite with eight movements. The different movements will be premiered seperately by a total of 58 participants at the MSH 50th Accordion Competition. Find the competition program here.
My string orchestra piece Infirmus, a piece dedicated to everyone suffering from a chronic illness, will be performed by the joined forces of Vaasa City Orchestra and Seinäjoki City Orchestra conducted by Henri Sigfridsson. More info about the concert can be found here and tickets here.