Olli Kortekangas premieres

The Saimaa Sinfonietta has commissioned Olli Kortekangas to write a Guitar Concerto to be premiered in Lappeenranta on 14 November with Janne Malinen as the soloist. Other new Kortekangas works include Piir (Border), a blend of poetry and music to be performed in European cities with a mutual border; first in Valga, on the border between Estonia and Latvia, on 7 May.
Olli Kortekangas will be celebrating his 70th birthday on 16 May next year.