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My string orchestra piece Fretus, dedicated to the oceans of the world, will be performed by Hyvinkää Orchestra conducted by their chief conductor Tuomas Pirilä at Hyvinkää City Hall. The Hyvinkää Orchestra offers an intriguing selection of contemporary music constructed around a nature theme. The concert collaborates with the Hyvinkää Natural Heritage Foundation, and 10% of the concert’s ticket revenue will be donated to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation. More info (in Finnish) can be found here.

My string trio Nisus will be performed by Matilda Kaul, Hanna Hohti and Petja Kainulainen at series Kino Soi! in the old cinema of Tapiola, Espoo. More info can be found here.

EDIT: Due to a sudden case of illness, the concert has been postponed from December to the 29th of January 2024.

Looking forward to the world premiere of my new 20-minute orchestral piece Extinctions, commissioned and performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the splendid Chloé Dufresne. More info can be found here.

EDIT: The concert has sold out but can be watched live (as well as retroperspectively) on the Finnish Broadcasting company’s website Yle Areena here.

My new solo cello work Aveo op.82 composed for Jonathan Roozeman will get its Irish premiere at Drogheda Classical Music. More info can be found here and tickets can be found here.

My new solo cello work Aveo op.82 composed for Jonathan Roozeman will be performed in Münster at the beautiful palace Erbdrostenhof. More info can be found here and tickets can be found here.

My new solo cello work Aveo op.82 composed for Jonathan Roozeman will get its German premiere in Bielefeld at the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle (Kleiner Saal). More info can be found here and tickets can be found here.

My second string quartet Letters will be performed by the Berlin based Elaia Quartet  at the church of Balingen, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The concert also includes Leoš Janáček’s second string quartet Intimate Letters, the work that has inspired me to compose Letters. More information (in German) to the concert can be found here.

Vino Ensemble conducted by Viena Kangas will sing the Finnish premiere of my piece Vidkänning, composed to a text by Henrika Ringbom. The concert will take place at Vapaan Taiteen Tila, a former underground shelter located in Sörnäinen in Helsinki.

My piece Piano Delirium from 2009 will be performed by Reetamaria Rajala at Palladium in Malmö, Sweden.

My string orchestra piece Infirmus, a piece dedicated to everyone suffering from a chronic illness, will be performed by students from the Sibelius Academy and conducted by Mateusz Gwizdałła. The concert also includes music by my colleagues and friends Johan Ullén, Matilda Seppälä, Mateusz Gwizdałła, Matthew Whittall and Takashi Yoshimatsu. The event is free and more information about the concert can be found here.