World premiere of Markku Klami's Fractured (Memoria II) given by decacordist Mari Mäntylä

Mari Mäntylä, the leading Finnish decacordist, will give the world premiere performance of Markku Klami's recent work, Fractured (Memoria II), at Kuhmo Arts Centre's Lentua hall in Kuhmo on January 30, 2025.

Fractured (Memoria II) is a reworked, or extended version of Klami's Etude No. 2: Memoria (Remembrance) from Etudes for guitar cycle, written for Patrik Kleemola between 2020 and 2021 and published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen in 2021.

The idea for an extended version with new musical material, also making use of decacorde's extended bass register, was proposed to Klami by decacordist Mari Mäntylä in 2024.

While the original Memoria from Etudes for guitar nods at the aesthtetic of Baroque music, its sound is now further enhanced with the new sonic possibilities offered by decacorde's bass strings. The new, contrasting material heard at the beginning of the piece and again in the middle passage of the piece, is based on the series of arpeggios and rich use of harmonics, to be interpreted freely and with continuous rubato manner.

Fractured (Memoria II) was commissioned by Mari Mäntylä, and is dedicated to her.