Markku Klami | Composer
Markku Klami nominated for Finnish Music Publishers Composer of the Year award
Jun 15, 2026
Klami's Violin Concerto: A Requiem is nominated in Composer of the Year category for large-scale works
Markku Klami has been nominated for Finnish Music Publishers Award 2026 in the category Composer of the Year – Large-Scale Works for his Violin Concerto: A Requiem.
The awards are presented annually by the Finnish Music Publishers Association, which represents Finnish music publishers. This year marks the association’s 50th anniversary.
The Finnish Music Publishers Awards recognize outstanding achievements in Finnish music across a range of categories, including Song of the Year, Popular Music Creator of the Year, Open Category Work of the Year, Export Achievement of the Year, Composer of the Year (Large-Scale and Small-Scale Works), and Breakthrough of the Year.
The nominees are selected based on proposals submitted by the association’s member publishers, while the winners are chosen by invited expert juries.
The winners of the Finnish Music Publishers Awards 2026 will be announced at the gala ceremony on September 10, 2026 at the White Hall in Helsinki.
Wise Music Classical covered the world premiere of Klami’s Violin Concerto in a news article published on April 13, 2026
Written for violinist Maria Puusaari, the concerto is a deeply personal requiem for an unborn life. Across three movements, De profundis, Alcheringa, and Ad lucem, Klami traces an emotional journey from anger and frustration, through a dreamlike and fragile state where hope briefly emerges to a final striving towards light.
Blending the intensity of a concerto with the reflective character of a requiem, the work unfolds as both an intimate and universal meditation on loss, longing, and resilience.
– Wise Music Classical / Edition Wilhelm Hansen