:: News archive
Aug 27, 2011 - red moon gets its world premiere at Suså Festival '11 in Næstved, Denmark on Sep 4. The premiere will be performed by Uusinta String Quartet
Aug 14, 2011 - I'm discussing Finnish contemporary music scene on Finn-tasia chat event on New York City based radio station WQXR with Bard Music Festival's scholar-in-residence Daniel Grimley on Aug 15 at 4pm EDT (local NYC time) (11pm GMT+3, Finnish time)
Aug 12, 2011 - ...and there's always music in the air." gets performed at Turku Music Festival on Aug 16; Media page was updated
Aug 5, 2011 - Tulevaisuuden retki (Future Trek), a children's opera, gets its world premiere in Turku on Aug 6, as a part of Turku Music Festival and Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture; Performances page and List of works were updated
Mar 14, 2011 - Media page was updated
Mar 11, 2011 - ...and there's always music in the air." gets its world premiere on Ajassa 2011! Festival in Helsinki on Mar 15; Performances page was updated
Dec 22, 2010 - List of works was updated
Dec 18, 2010 - CV was updated
Dec 16, 2010 - Göreme will be performed at IX Festiwal Muzyki Nowej (Bytom, Poland), by Finnish guitarist Kimmo Rahunen on Dec 19
Dec 3, 2010 - Oi surkaa, a miniature for vocal ensemble, gets its world premiere by vocal ensemble of Helsinki Chamber Choir (cond. Eric-Olof Söderström) in Helsinki on Dec 5. List of works and Performances pages were updated
Oct 16, 2010 - Cinque miniature gets its Argentinean premiere, performed by Patrik Kleemola during Oct 15-20 in Rosario, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires
Sep 21, 2010 - FUME (Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra) gets its world premiere on Sep 24 at Ung Nordisk Musik: COLLISION! Festival in Helsinki, performed by Lauri Sallinen (clarinet) and Avanti! Orchestra (cond. Jani Telaranta)
Aug 25, 2010 - Performances, Media and Photos pages were updated
Aug 12, 2010 - CV and Performances page were updated
May 30, 2010 - List of works, CV and Media page were updated
Apr 16, 2010 - World premiere of night signal by Polytech Choir (cond. Juha Kuivanen) at the 5th International Leevi Madetoja Male Voice Choir Competition at Tapiola Church in Espoo on April 16; international premiere of eikä merta enää ole by Dufay Ensemble (cond. Wolfgang Fulda) in Würtzburg and Nürnberg, Germany on April 17 & 18
Jan 24, 2010 - TWIRL will be performed at SibaFest 2010 Festival in Helsinki on January 31; CV was updated
Oct 23, 2009 - trompetgeskal gets its international premiere at Compositori a confronto Festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy on November 13; also performances of Cinque miniature at I Musici Mojanesi Festival in Mogliano di Veneto, Italy on December 5 and at VIII Festiwal Muzyki Nowej in Bytom, Poland on December 6
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