Kimmo Hakola has a profile concert at the Sibelius Academy Concert Hall in Helsinki on 26 April. The programme will include two premieres: his Piano Quintet Op. 111 and Sinfonische Elegien Op. 112. Both address symphonic mechanisms in chamber music and are part of Hakola’s artistic assignment for a Doctorate in music which examines symphonic…
The long-waited solo part with piano reduction and study score for Hakola’s Clarinet Concerto finally available! The concerto created world-wide buzz after its premiere in 2001, which was augmented after the CD release. It is a rich and original work in 4 movements lasting some 40 minutes. Solo part & piano reduction 55011-708-2, 29,90 €…
Kimmo Hakola sees that the aim of composing for wind quintet should be to have the instrument ultimately breathe and express itself as an organic, coherent subject.Score: 55011-508-8, € 15,50 Buy now
Kimmo Hakola’s String QuartetNo. 4 Op. 95 was composed in 2016 and is dedicated to Meta4 Quartet. In composer’s words, it is "the floundering, playful, if necessary defiantly dramatic, surprising, capricious and unrestrained tour de force of a youthful entity." 55011-497-5 (score), € 29,10 Buy now
for clarinet in Bb soloA thrilling piece commissioned by the ECHO Young Talents program in 2016. The work has all of Hakola’s trademarks: fast-paced passages alternating with lyric ones, rapid arpeggios and search for new sounds. 979-0-55011-359-6, € 20,00
