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My solo accordion piece Renewables Op.83 will get its Lithuanian Premiere by Sini Ström at her recital at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater in Vilna, Lithuania. The concert is part of the Akoreono Festivalis in Vilnius. The program also includes music by my colleagues Olli Virtaperko, Matthew Whittall, Sampo Haapamäki, Sauli Zinovjev and Joonas Kokkonen. The festival program can be found here.

An excerpt from my Requiem for our Earth will be performed by Akademiska Damkören Lyran conducted by Riku Laurikka on Finnish National TV. It will be part of the Svenska Dagen Celebration (Finnish Swedish Heritage Day Celebration) at Konstfabriken in Porvoo. The whole show can be watched online here for one month.

Guitarist Osmo Palmu will play my piece Under Stjärnhimlen at his concert at Myllysali on the island Suomenlinna.

Very happy that Lohja City Orchestra has included my Dorfman Trio from 2015 in their chamber music series. The Facebook event can be found here and tickets can be found here.

Sonja Vertainen will perform four movements from my solo accordion suite Shapes at the concert Crossing Bellows at the Accordionfest Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia.. She will perform the movements I. “The Rhomb”, II. “The Ascending Line”, III. “Circles and Ellipses” and V. “Dots”. More info here.

Looking forward to the world premiere of my new violin concerto Earth Songs premiered by Elina Vähälä 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.

EDIT: There has been a change of soloist. Due to personal reasons Pekka Kuusisto won’t be performing and Elina Vähälä will be performing instead.

Pianist Reetamaria Rajala will be performing all my so far published solo works for piano at Kirseberg Church in Malmö. This is the first time all my piano works are performed in Sweden. The concert includes the works Epitaph, Characters, Under Stjärnhimlen, Unda, Piano Delirium and Psychedelic. Find the Facebook event here.

Violist Alicja Pyrdol will play the Swiss Premiere of my solo piece Sydänlaulu at the 10th anniversary concert of the series Feeling blue & white in Basel. Find more info 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

My Summer Memories, miniatures for piano trio will be payed at Rauma Festivo. More info can be found here.