UPCOMING EVENTS
I’m going to give a guest lecture about my music at Malmö Academy of Music.
Tuomas Turriago will perform my piece Epitaph at the pre event concert of the Tampere Biennale Festival 2020. Free entry!
The wonderful Akademiska Damkören Lyran conducted by the equally wonderful Jutta Seppinen are are giving a second performance of the hugely acclaimed global crisis themed concert Epilog. The concert consists of the two pieces Kodecs/Codecs by Perttu Haapanen and Requiem for our Earth by yours truly. Both pieces were commissioned by Lyran and premiered by Lyran on November 7th 2019.
My Piano Quintets Minna and Aino will be presented by TampereRaw at this years edition of Tallinn Music Week 2020.
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€.
My first string quartet Via Crucis will get its most northern performance by musicians from the Lapland Chamber Orchestra at Hetan Musiikkipäivät.
The Swedish Gävle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Reif will perform my piece Lucrum in their season program.
More info coming soon!
Lukas Döhler will perform my piece Sydänlaulu. More info coming soon!
Lukas Döhler will perform my piece Sydänlaulu. More info coming soon!
PAST EVENTS
Very happy to get a second performance of my orchestral piece Tundo! performed by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic conducted by Christian Reif.
Very happy to make my debut in the USA with my orchestral piece Tundo! performed by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic conducted by Christian Reif.
My piece Piano Delirium from 2009 will be performed by Reetamaria Rajala at the annual Connect Festival in Malmö.
I will give a guest lecture about my children operas to the students of the teacher program at the University of Helsinki.
Vickan & Väinö is a bilingual (Swedish and Finnish) fairytale opera for children to the libretto and original story of Marina Motaleff. Cast: Anna Sandström soprano, Ville Salonen tenor, Aku Rantama baritone and Janne Valkeajoki accordion. Commissioned and produced by Ooppera BOX.
Mari Viluksela will perform the viola version of Sydänlaulu in the concert “Beethoven bei uns: Thinking of Beethoven” .
The male choir Mieskuoro Laulajat conducted by Paavo Hyökki will in their Independency Day concert in the great hall of Tampere-talo perform Sailing to Windward composed to a poem by Michael Binnie.
The Finnish premiere of Tundo! will be played by Kuopio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaakko Kuusisto.
My first Piano Quintet Minna will be performed by TampereRaw in Helsinki in Helsinki Music Centre. Kaarina Hazard will lead us through the concert with texts about the life of Minna Canth. Link to tickets for 21/14,50/8€. The Facebook event can be found here.
A panel discussion (in Finnish) about equality in music will take place before the concert in the Lower Foyer at 2 PM. Invited guests are journalist Wilhelm Kvist, composer Minna Leinonen, violinist Eriikka Maalismaa, Tampere Philharmonic’s general manager Juha Ahonen and yours truly. A link to more info about the panel discussion can be found here.