Composers

    Kalevi Aho's Concerto for timpani and orchestra (2015) was premiered in Turku, Finland 22nd April 2016 Ari-Pekka Mäenpää as soloists and Erkki Lasonpalo as conductor. Performance material is available for...

    Kalevi Aho's Double concerto for two bassoons and orchestra (2016) was premiered in Warsaw, Poland with Bram van Sambeek and Leszek Wachnik as soloists. Duration 29 min.  Study score Buy...

    Aulis Sallinen, who will turn 90 on 9 April 2025, kindly gave us permission to print the speech he made at the award-giving ceremony in September when he received the...

    On 7 February next year [2025], 150 years will have passed since the birth of Finnish composer Erkki Melartin (1875–1937). The occasion will be celebrated each month during the jubilee...

    Žibuoklė Martinaitytė's Ululation (2023) for mixed choir developes entirely from the "ululating" gesture. Ululations can be taken as a ritualistic expression of mourning commenting on the turbulent times we live...

    Sibelius' Christmas songs op. 1 (texts in Finnish) arranged for male choir by Teppo Salakka. Buy now

    Matthew Whittall's large-scale choral song cycle Songs of Travel (2020-2021) is set to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), compiled and adapted by the composer. Duration 30 minutes. All the...

    In this set of love songs "love is a place" after one of the great poets of the genre, Matthew Whittall wanted to create a sense of progression from various...

    Matthew Whittall's pair of psalm-based settings was a commission from the Finnish union of church musicians, for Swedish-language pieces specifically intended for liturgical use. Du kröner året (You crown the...

    Jennah Vainio's For Such a Time As This was commissioned for YL Male Voice Choir's 140th anniversary concert in 2023. The songs deal with topics such as motherhood, war, longing...