UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
Pianist Reetamaria Rajala will be playing the UK Premiere of my piano solo pieces Piano Delirium and Unda at her debute at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, London. The concert also includes music by my colleagues Saara Lindahl and Lara Poe. The event is free! Find more info here.
Guitarist Marisa Minder will play the Swiss Premiere of my piece Under Stjärnhimlen at the concert series Feeling blue & white in Basel. There will also be music by my colleagues Sauli Zinovjev, Lotta Wennäkoski, Leonid Bashmakov, Tobias Krebs and Einojuhani Rautavaara. Find more info here.
Accordionist Sonja Vertainen will perform from my whole solo accordion suite Shapes at her recital in Hannover. She will perform at the hall E50 in “Neues Haus 1” at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Hannover University of Music, Theatre and Media). She will also be performing works by César Franck, Erkki Jokinen, Matthew Shlomowitz and Tom Bañados. More info here.
My orchestral piece ICE will get it’s United Kingdom Premiere by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Emilia Hoving at the BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, the United Kingdom. The concert also includes the piano concerto by the British composer Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and the first symphony of Grace Williams, believed to be the first symphony ever written by a Welsh composer. More info can be found here and tickets here.
My orchestral piece ICE will get it’s Portuguese Premiere at the World New Music Days in Portugal. The festival will take place in Porto and Lisbon 30.5 – 7.6.2025. More info coming soon.
PAST EVENTS
My solo cello work Aveo will be performed by Sirja Nironen at Kamppi Chapel in Helsinki City Centre. Nironen will improvise and will also be playing music by my colleagues Linjama, Moilanen, Tenkanen and Valkonen. More info can be found here. Free admission!
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.
Guitarist Osmo Palmu will play my piece Under Stjärnhimlen at his recital at Lappeenranta Music institute.
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.
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.