Tiina Myllärinen's (Bad) Dreams come true for strings quartet (2022) was composed when war broke out in Europe. The composer tells: "The shock, and the daily news barrage of battles...

Lotta Wennäkoski's Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert ("pige" is Danish for girl). The work has...

Composer, musician Timo Alakotila (b. 1959) is a distinguished, active and versatile talent in the Finnish music scene whose long career working with different genres of music - folk music...

Lauri Mäntysaari explores the theme "nature" in Chats before Sunrise (2007, rev. 2022). The atmosphere created in this  6-minute piece is one of early dawn after a long night spent...

Panu Aaltio (b. 1982) is a film composer based in Helsinki and Los Angeles. He has composed music to 30 feature films, multiple TV series and video games, as well...

Markku Johansson's evergreen arrangements now available as downloadable and printable PDF editions. The swinging Savitaipale Reggae for flugelhorn & wind orchestra is based on traditional Finnish song "Ievan polkka". Duration...

Osmosis for brass sextet (3trp-3trb) Osmosis (2015) is scored for three trumpets and three tenor trombones. The instruments of the 12-minute-work are in osmotic relationships: various degrees of assimilation happen...

Kari Karjalainen has arranged these popular piano pieces by Erkki Melartin to different brass ensembles. The three pieces are: Tanssilaulu op. 16 / 3 Legend I op. 6 / 1...

Northern April for mixed choir (SSAATTBarB) is set to text by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). The work was commissioned by Tampere Vocal festival in 2023. Buy now

The seven movements of A Children's Mass (1973) by Einojuhani Rautavaara are performed in alternation by a children's choir (SSAA) and string orchestra. Only in the final movement are the...