UPCOMING EVENTS
The Orsino Ensemble performed the world premiere of my new wind quintet Raakku at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival at the Kuhmo Arts Centre and the whole concert was radio broadcast. The whole program can be found here. Listen to it here.
Guitarist Teuvo Taimioja will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital at Katajanokan Kitarasalonki in Helsinki. Free admission, register by sending an email to teuvo.taimioja (at) gmail.com.
Organist Tomi Satomaa will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital.
My duo Celestial Beings will get it’s Swedish premiere by violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and violist Ylvali McTigert Zilliacus at the chamber music festival Musikernas Musik at the Allhelgonakyrka in Stockholm. The concert includes music by Johan Helmich Roman, Kaija Saariaho, Elfrida Andrée, Eugène Ysaÿe, Amy Beach andJohannes Brahms in addition to yours truly. More can be found info here and tickets can be found here.
Guitarist Teuvo Taimioja will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital the Niagara Classical Concert Series in Ottawa, Canada. Tickets can be found here.
Guitarist Teuvo Taimioja will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital the Niagara Classical Concert Series in Toronto, Canada. Tickets can be found here.
Very happy that my new 11 min orchestral piece Information will get its Helsinki premiere by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their chief conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste in the Great Hall of the Helsinki Music Centre. More information and tickets can be found here.
I will be talking (mainly in Finnish) about the piece at the Pre-Concert Talk event (Konserttietkot) at 18:15-18:45 before the concert together with Jari Eskola. This event takes place in the Glazed Foyer and the event is free.
Very happy that my new 11 min orchestral piece Information will get its Helsinki premiere by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by their chief conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste in the Great Hall of the Helsinki Music Centre. More information and tickets can be found here.
Very happy to be part of the season opening concert of Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ruth Reinhardt, with my piece Nixus. The concert also includes Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto and Mendelssohn‘s 3rd symphony. More info and tickets can be found here.
Violinist Tami Pohjola and violist Mari Viluksela will be performing my duo Celestial Beings at the final concert of the Kaivos Festival. The concert will take place at Kiisu Theatre, will contain music by Kaija Saariaho, Sebastian Fagerlund, Missy Mazzolin and Henry Cowell. More info about the concerts here and about the festival here.
PAST EVENTS
Soprano Maija Rautasuo and pianist Pinja Ukkola will perform my song cycle Dagbok at their recital “Den väntand själen”. More info here and the Facebook event can be found here.
Soprano Wilhelmína Tómasdóttir and pianist Joel Papinoja will perform the songs Min lilla stuga,
Transformerad röd and En liten stund from my song cycle Öar i ett hav som strömmar at the Turku Music Festival (Turun musiikkijuhlat). There will be two concerts with the same program, one at 1pm and one at 4pm, both taking place at the Archbishop’s house. The concert contains music by composers Jórunn Viðar, Jón Þórarinsson, Sigfús Einarsson, Maleena Linjamaa and your truly. Tickets and more info can be found here.
My 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 perform the Swedish premiere of the piece at the World Choir Games 2026 in Helsingborg, conducted by Hanna Kronqvist. More info can be found here and the program can be found here.
Guitarist Teuvo Taimioja will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital L’oubliée– Hommage à Ida Presti at the Norpas Festival in Kimito/Kemiön saari. More information can be found here and tickets can be found here.
My song cycle Tidens ordning, five songs to the poems of Oscar Rossi, will be performed by bass barytone Sam Taskinen and pianist Mirva Helske at the XXXIV Mikkeli Music Festival. More info here.
My piece Sistema for soprano recorder and string quartet will get it’s world premiere at Our Festival (Meidän Festivaali) by the commissioner Eero Saunamäki and the Kamus Quartet. More info about the piece can be found here and more info about the concert can be found here.
Organist Tomi Satomaa will be performing my piece Under Stjärnhimlen as part of his recital.
The Orsino Ensemble will be playing the world premiere of my new wind quintet Raakku at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival at the Kuhmo Arts Centre. Tickets 28/21€. The whole program can be found here.
My first piano quintet Minna – Pictures from the Life of Minna Canth will be performed by Daniel Rowland (violin), Chiara Scannicandro (violin), Andres Kaljuste (viola), Maja Bogdanovic (cello) and Mackenzie Melemed (piano) at the Kuhmo Arts Centre. Tickets 28/21€. More info here.
My new solo accordion piece Renewavles Op.83 will be performed by Niko Kumpuvaara at the Kuhmo Church at Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival. Tickets 28/21€. More info here.