UPCOMING EVENTS
My solo piano piece Unda will get its World Premiere at the Mänttä Music Festival premiered by the pianist and artistic director of the Mänttä Music Festival, Niklas Pokki. The concert is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Freshwater Foundation. Find more information here.
My Summer Memories, miniatures for piano trio will be payed at Rauma Festivo. More info can be found here.
My song Landet som icke är composed to a poem by Edit Södergran will be performed at the Åland Opera Festival. The concert will be performed on the 14th and on the 15th of August, both days at 8:30 PM at Kastelholm Castle
Looking forward to the world premiere of my new violin concerto Earth Songs composed for Pekka Kuusisto and TampereRaw, conducted by Maria Itkonen and with video projections by Marek Pluciennik. The concert will take place in the Small Hall at the Tampere Hall (Tampere-talo). More information and tickets can be found here.
Very happy that my new 11 min orchestral piece Information will get its world premiere by the Tampere Philharmonic conducted by their chief conductor Matthew Halls in the Great Hall of the Tampere Hall. More information and tickets can be found here.
PAST EVENTS
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.
Pianist Reetamaria Rajala will be performing all my so far published solo works for piano at the Aava Festival. The concert will take place at Korpo Gård in the Archipelago of Turku.
Sonja Vertainen will perform four movements from my solo accordion suite Shapes in the concert series Konzerte im Kirchgarten in the Johanneskirche Völksen, Springe, Germany. She will perform the movements I. “The Rhomb”, II. “The Ascending Line”, III. “Circles and Ellipses” and V. “Dots”. More info here.
My duo Celestial Beings will be performed by violinist violinist Otto Antikainen and violist Ulla Knuuttila at the Toivakka Chamber Music Festival (Toivakan kamarimusiikkifestivaali). The concert includes music by Claude Debussy, Lotta Wennäkoski and Jean-Philippe Rameau in addition to yours truly. More can be found info here.
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!
Pablo Devisme will play five movements from my solo accordion suite Shapes in his accordion recital at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) . He will be performing the movements I. “The Rhomb”, II. “The Ascending Line” , VI. “The Pentagon Chaconne”, V. “Dots” and VI. “The Icosahedron”. Free admission.
My solo cello work Aveo will be performed by Johannes Välja at his Master’s Recital of New Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (University of Music and Performing Arts Munich). Free admission! Find more info here.
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.
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.
The song Vi bestämmer varje dag hurdan världen ska va from my first children opera Dumma Kungen, composed to a libretto by Monica Vikström-Jokela, will be performed by the pupils and teachers from my former music school Musikinstitutet Kungsvägen at their 50th Jubilee concert at Tapiola Hall in Espoo, Finland.