Coming Up!

Jun 12               AUF: Accordion Expanded with Avanti! Quartet in Porvoo Villa Albert. Works by
                          Abrahamsen, Dvorak, Katzer, Kujala, Piazzolla, Rihm and Wennäkoski (world premiere)

Jun 30-             Avanti Summer Sounds -festival in Porvoo Taidetehdas, concertos “Stream and River Motion” by Markus
Jul 4                   Fagerudd and “Busking” by HK Gruber, orchestral pieces, chamber music, Pipoka performance etc.

Jul 15-17           Premiere performance of opera Lisbeta by Karolina Eiriksdottir at Åland

Jul 27                 Gourmet @ JazzEspa, Helsinki

Aug 25               Helsinki Festival: Run Time Error & Asthma, music of Simon Steen-Andersen @ Helsinki Music Centre Camerata-Hall

Sep 17                Klangspuren-festival, trio with Frank Gratkowski (sax) and Ignaz Schick (turntables)

Oct 1–2              Soundscapes München with Harri Sjöström (sax), Phil Wachsmann (violin), Evan Parker (sax) etc.

Yleinen

Contemporary Composer of the Year Award

The Finnish Music Publishers Association (MPA Finland) has awarded me with the “Contemporary Composer of the Year” award. Previous winners include for example Kalevi Aho and Lotta Wennäkoski.

Yleinen

Violin concerto Auseil premiere in YLE Areena

Eriikka Maalismaa and Helsinki Phil conducted by Osmo Vänskä played tremendous premiere performance of my violin concerto ’Auseil’. It was filmed and recorded by the Finnish Broadcasting Company and can …