UPCOMING EVENTS
Vino Ensemble conducted by Viena Kangas will sing the second movement ingenting from my piece Vidkänning, composed to a text by Henrika Ringbom. The concert will be performed at 6PM and 8PM at Vapaan Taiteen Tila, in Helsinki. Tickets 20/10/5€.
My orchestral piece ICE will get it’s Portuguese Premiere by the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by José Eduardo Gomes at the World New Music Days in Portugal. The concert will also include music by my colleagues Hawar Tawfiq, Murielle Lemay and Vasco Mendonça. More information can be found here.
Pianist Reetamaria Rajala will play the world premiere of the piano version of my suite Shapes. She will also be performing all my other so far published solo works for piano at Joensuun Musiikkijuhlat. The concert includes in addition to Shapes he works Epitaph, Characters, Under Stjärnhimlen, Unda, Piano Delirium and Psychedelic. Find more info here.
Vino Ensemble conducted by Viena Kangas will sing the second movement ingenting from my piece Vidkänning, composed to a text by Henrika Ringbom. The concert will be part of Kuorokatselmus at Tampere Vocal Music Festival (Tampereen Sävel). The event begins at 9:30 AM and Vino Ensemble will perform at 11 AM. More info here and tickets here.
Students from the class of Professor Pauliina Tukianen at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg will perform my song Du store Eros from my song cycle Framtidens skugga. More information coming soon.
Ossi Tanner will perform my piece Epitaph at the final concert of Kangasala Classic. There will also be music by Agnes Tschetschulin, Helvi Leiviskä and Franz Schubert. More info can be found here and tickets can be found here.
My second Piano Quintet Aino – Emotions from the life of Aino Sibelius will be performed at the Sysmä Summer Sounds Festival. It will be performed at the chamber music concert by flautist Enna Puhakka, clarinetist Eeva Mäenluoma, violinist Linda Suolahti, cellist Markus Hohti and pianist Miikka Taipale. More info can be found here and tickets here.
My piece Cura will be performed by violinist Daniel Rowland and pianist Matilda Kärkkäinen at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival at concert number 55 (at the 55th edition of the festival).
My second string quartet Letters will be performed at the festival Rauma Festivo by Otto Antikainen, Rebecca Roozeman, Charlotta Westerbacka and Joona Pulkkinen. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters. More information can be found here.
My solo piano piece Psychedelic will be performed in Pori by Miikka Taipale. The program also includes music by Selim Palmgren and Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Tickets can be found here.
PAST EVENTS
Sonja Vertainen will perform the movement The Ascending Line from my solo accordion suite Shapes at the concert Markus Nachtcafé #5 in a concert program by mussica assoluta in the Markuskirche in Hannover, Germany. More info can be found here.
The Male Choir Valkia together with SEIM Ensemble, led by Elisa Huovinen will sing my piece Sailing to Windward (composed to a text by Michael Binnie) at their concert in Meilahti Church. The Facebook event can be found here and tickets can be found here.
My piece Characters, a solo piano suite of miniatures will be performed by Antti Pimiä at the second round of the Tampere Piano Competition. Find more info here and tickets here.
Looking forward to the German premiere my new 22-minute accordion concerto Permafrost in Hannover by Sonja Vertainen and musica assoluta conducted by Thorsten Encke. More info can be found here.
Violist Liisa Orava will perform my piece Sydänlaulu at her master recital at the Sibelius Academy. She will also be performing works my Justus Weinreich, Johann Matthias Sperger, Lillian Fuchs and Caroline Shaw. Free entry! More info here.
Tuomas Turriago will perform my piece Epitaph at his and Dimas Ruiz Santos recital in Vaasa. The concert also includes pieces for oboe and piano, composed by Jenny Hettne, Atso Almila and by Tuomas Turriago himself. More info can be found here.
My new work for women’s voice choir Vidare, hur långt, hur länge composed to a brand new text by poet Heidi von Wright was commissioned by the Exaudio Choir, who also will give the world premiere conducted by Hanna Kronqvist. Tickets can be found here.
Pianist Reetamaria Rajala will be performing all my so far published solo works for piano at the Seinäjoki City Orchestra’s Club evening. The concert includes the works Epitaph, Characters, Under Stjärnhimlen, Unda, Piano Delirium and Psychedelic. Find more info here.
Very honoured to get a own festival organised by Uuden Ajan Ensemble and Tapio von Boehm! On Sunday 9.3 my orchestral works Tundo!, Lucrum, Nixus, ICE and Wasteland and the orchestral version of my song cycle Dagbok will be performed, showcasing a decade of my compositions. Soprano Hedvig Paulig will be the soloist of Dagbok. The concert takes place in the House of Nobility and tickets can be found here.
Very honoured to get a own festival organised by Uuden Ajan Ensemble and Tapio von Boehm! On Saturday 8.3 all my Piano Quintets Minna, Aino and Helene will be performed for the first time all in one concert called Historical female portraits in tones. The concert takes place in the House of Nobility and tickets can be found here.