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Esa Pietilä: Breaking down walls between jazz and classical

Over the past decade, Esa Pietilä has led parallel careers in jazz and classical, with the...
Wif Stenger, 4.8.2021
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Composer Antti Auvinen: Defying expectations

Composer Antti Auvinen’s music has been described as noisy and aggressive, like the heavy metal he’s...
Wif Stenger, 2.3.2021
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Sampo Haapamäki: Tendency towards musical resolution and interaction between inner elements of music

Composer Sampo Haapamäki's long-term intention has been to carefully evoke and nurture his nascent musical ideas,...
Kare Eskola, 5.1.2021
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Classical guitarist Petri Kumela: Curiosity meets stubbornness

Typically, Finnish musicians succeed by doing something highly unusual exceptionally well. Guitarist Petri Kumela is different...
Kare Eskola, 27.10.2020
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Tytti Arola: Music beyond composing

Reading Tytti Arola's extensive CV, one instantly forms an image of an open-minded artist readily nurturing...
Matti Nives, 20.5.2020
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He’s lost control – Composer Sebastian Hilli pushes the boundaries of classical

For composer Sebastian Hilli the concept of sticking to one musical genre or formula is too limiting. We...
Oskari Onninen, 14.10.2019
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Artistic vision: Osmo Tapio Räihälä went through 400 proposals for Nordic Music Days

Osmo Tapio Räihälä directs Nordic Music Days, a festival initiated in 1888, when "Grieg was in...
Markus Luukkonen, 2.10.2018
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Artistic Vision: Johan Tallgren's search for new perspectives

Johan Tallgren doesn't want to rehash the past: “Running a contemporary music festival is psychologically challenging”,...
Markus Luukkonen, 27.6.2018
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Artistic Vision: Outi Tarkiainen between two worlds

Composer Outi Tarkiainen serves as artistic director of the Silence Festival, a festival that takes place...
Markus Luukkonen, 18.5.2018
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Artistic Vision: Sami Klemola's thematic big picture leads Tampere Biennale festival

Composer and defunensemble leader Sami Klemola doubles as the artistic director of Tampere Biennale. Read his...
Markus Luukkonen, 12.4.2018
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Lotta Wennäkoski – three-dimensional craftmanship within the fabric of music

Lotta Wennäkoski is in a position from where it is natural to look back, but also forward. Read...
Jean Ramsay, 5.12.2017
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Tuomas Kantelinen Is Searching For Divinity

Film composer Tuomas Kantelinen creates the musical tone for anything from feature films to television newscasts...
Anton Vanha-Majamaa, 2.10.2017