UPCOMING EVENTS
The Finnish Broadcasting Company’s (YLE) program Kultuuriykkönen discussed music and ecology. Conductor Jutta Seppinen, guitarist Petri Kumela, musicology docent Juha Torvinen, me and journalist Vesa Kytöoja discussed what responsibilities composers, musicians and concert organisers have considering the climate crisis. The program includes three excerpts of my Requiem for Our Earth.
My third Piano Quintet Helene will get it’s world premiere at the fifth Kokonainen Festival in Janakkala and will be live streamed by the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Mezzo soprano Monica Groop and pianist Juhani Lagerspetz will at Pellinge Festival give the world premiere of the new song cycle Framtidens skugga composed to poems by Edit Södergran.
UNM Finland has chosen Requiem for Our Earth for this years UNM (Young Nordic Music) Festival, taking place in Tampere. The piece will be performed by Tampere Cappella conducted by Professor Markus Yli-Jokipii in Pyynikkisali at Tampere Conservatory.
My Piano Quintets Minna and Aino will be presented by TampereRaw at this years edition of Tallinn Music Week 2020.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus the event has been moved to the 29th of August 2020.
Tampere Raw will perform my first Piano Quintet Minna – Pictures from the Life of Minna Canth at Stockholm Concert Hall. It will be the first performance of the entire piece in Sweden.
PAST EVENTS
Paulina Riquelme studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart will perform Sydänlaulu (version for viola) at the event “Violissimo”.
Lukas Döhler will perform my piece Sydänlaulu at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. More info coming soon!
The Eviva Choir will sing the Finnish premiere of the piece Vidkänning.
EDIT: The concert has been postponed to autumn 2020.
Lukas Döhler will perform my piece Sydänlaulu. More info coming soon!
The Finnish Line conducted by Atte Heikkinen will perform At Teasdale’s at the VII International Leevi Madetoja Male Voice Choir Competition in the great hall of Helsinki Music Centre. Ticket 10 €.
The Swedish Gävle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif will perform my piece Lucrum in their season program.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus this event has been cancelled.
The Swedish Gävle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif will perform my piece Lucrum in Hudik.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus this event has been cancelled.
My first string quartet Via Crucis will get its most northern performance by musicians from the Lapland Chamber Orchestra at Hetan Musiikkipäivät.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus this event has been cancelled.
My first string quartet Via Crucis will be performed by the Felis Quartet at the wonderful modern wooden church of Koukkala in Jyväskylä. Free entry, program 10/5€.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus this event has been cancelled.
The Australian premiere of the orchestral piece Tundo! will be performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Håkan Hardenberger.
EDIT: Due to the Coronavirus this event has been cancelled.