:: News archive
Oct 14, 2009 - New photos (taken in October 2009 by Antti Viljanen) were added on the site
Sep 30, 2009 - Göreme gets its international premiere at Rebus Festival in Milan, Italy on October 8; also performances of Cinque miniature at Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival in Rome, Italy on October 12 and the international premiere of In singleness... in Stockholm, Sweden on October 4
Sep 22, 2009 - Göreme, a new work for guitar and tape is completed. It will be premiered at Sibelius Academy Concert hall in Helsinki on September 26; CV was updated
Jun 23, 2009 - aura, a new work for alto flute and live electronics is completed. It will be premiered at Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari on July 11; CV was updated
May 12, 2009 - List of works was updated, new works in progress
Apr 28, 2009 - FUME is selected to the Jury's list of the recommended works in the 2nd International Uuno Klami Composition Competition
Apr 28, 2009 - List of works was updated, information on FUME was added; CV was updated
Mar 31, 2009 - List of works was updated, new works in progress
Mar 27, 2009 - night signal, a new work for male choir is completed
Mar 15, 2009 - List of works was updated
Jan 19, 2009 - List of works was updated with two new works
Dec 1, 2008 - A new work for soloist and orchestra is completed. Detailed infromation of the work will be added later
Jun 19, 2008 - TWIRL, a new work for solo clarinet is completed. It will be premiered at Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari on July 8
May 19, 2008 - L, a new work for chamber orchestra is completed. It will be premiered at XXIII Avanti! Summer Sounds Festival in Porvoo on June 27
Jan 29, 2008 - JÄÄ will be performed at SibaFest 2008 Festival in Helsinki today
Nov 24, 2007 - A new version of In singleness... for soprano and chamber orchestra will be premiered today at the Opening concert of 30th Anniversary Festival of Ears Open Society at Concert hall of Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The performance will be aired on national Radio YLE 1 channel of the Finnish Broadcasting Company on November 29
Oct 22, 2007 - A new version of In singleness... for soprano and chamber orchestra will be premiered at the Opening concert of 30th Anniversary Festival of Ears Open Society at Concert hall of Sibelius Academy in Helsinki on November 24
Sep 11, 2007 - I have been granted a membership to Society of Finnish Composers
Aug 19, 2007 - Cinque miniature will be performed at Ung Nordisk Musik 2007 Festival in Reykjavík, Iceland on September 7, 2007
Aug 19, 2007 - Chorus Cathedralis Iuniorum gives a premiere of my new work for choir, eikä merta enää ole, in Turku Cathedral on September 15, 2007
Jun 11, 2007 - In singleness..., a new work for soprano and chamber orchestra is completed. It will be premiered at Avanti! XXII Summer Sounds festival in Porvoo on June 29
Apr 14, 2007 - Helsinki University Symphony Orchestra will premiere my orchestral work sight - energy - vague - ocean in Helsinki on April 19. Second performance in Turku on April 21
Feb 6, 2007 - Two of my works, JÄÄ and ...in the shadows... will be performed at the Musica Nova 2007 festival in Helsinki in March 2007
Dec 9, 2006 - JÄÄ, a new work for 2 guitars is completed. Also a revised version of the orchestra piece sight - energy - vague - ocean is completed. JÄÄ will be premiered in Helsinki on December 23
Nov 9, 2006 - Radio YLE 1, a national radio channel of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), will air my interview (with some excerpts of my music) on November 9 & 11, 2006. The interview is a part of the series of programs titled "Suomalaiset Sävelet Nyt" (Finnish Sounds Now) to celebrate YLE's 80th anniversary
Oct 8, 2006 - Cinque miniature will be performed by Italian guitar virtuoso Massimo Felici in his concerts in Turku, Tampere, Helsinki and Tallinn during October
Sep 23, 2006 - sight - energy - vague - ocean wins the shared 1st prize in the SävellYS 2006 Composing Competition. The work will be premiered in Helsinki in spring 2007
Jun 11, 2006 - Glow on tour in Turku region Archipelago during June 9-11
Apr 6, 2006 - Cinque miniature will be premiered in Italy on April 7
Feb 20, 2006 - Cinque miniature, a new work for guitar is completed. It will be premiered in Italy in April 2006. Finnish premiere in Turku on April 18
Jan 22, 2006 - trompetgeskal, fanfare for brass quintet is completed. It will be premiered in Turku on February 3
Nov 28, 2005 - New work for orchestra is completed
Nov 28, 2005 - New work for brass quintet is in progress. The work is a commission by Finnish Student Health Service, Turku for it's 50th anniversary on February 2006
Jul 20, 2005 - New work for guitar is in progress. The work is commissioned by guitarist Patrik Kleemola
Jun 29-30, 2005- Glow is being preformed at Kemiö Music Festival 2005
Apr 14, 2005 - New chamber work, Glow, is completed. It will be premiered at Kemiö Music Festival on June 29
Mar 31 - April 7, 2005 - Flow tours in Finland (Kuhmo, Oulu) and Slovakia (Bratislava, Piestany)
Jan 9, 2005 - New chamber work is in progress. The work is commissioned by the Kemiönsaari Music Guild and it will be premiered at Kemiö Music Festival 2005
Nov 21-23, 2004 - Flow tours in Finland (Tampere, Helsinki)
Aug 20, 2004 - Flow has won the national composition contest of the Finnish Polytechnic Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra, conducted by Atso Almila, will premiere the work in Tampere on November 21. Flow will also be preformed during the orchestra's tuors in Finland and Slovakia in 2004-2005