Focus on Olli Kortekangas

Music by Olli Kortekangas will be performed at a jubilee concert at the Helsinki Music Centre on 26 October. On the programme will be the organ sonata Stargazer , the premiere of a new organ sonata (No. 4, Snow), and the premiere of the version for large choir and organ of Vähän ennen yötä (Just Before Night). The performers will include Ville Rusanen, Jan Lehtola, Markku Hietaharju and the Turku Cathedral Oratorio Choir.
Also scheduled for later this year are numerous performances. The suite from the opera Isfåglarna (Halcyons) will be heard at Konnevesi in July. In November, there will be organ and vocal music by Kortekangas in a concert in Kuopio, and Kari Vuola will premiere new choral preludes in Pori. In December, the Clarinet Concerto by Kortekangas is in the concert program of the Oulu Sinfonia.