Kimmo Hakola news
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Kimmo Hakola news

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…

Songs of Meena by Olli Kortekangas
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Songs of Meena by Olli Kortekangas

Tuuli Takala was the soloist in Olli Kortekangas‘ Songs of Meena for soprano and orchestra which received enthusiastic feedback from the press and audiences alike:”The poems have inspired him to write lyrical, nuanced and also playful orchestral images. Takala’s sparkling soprano floats and creates spellbinding patterns in varying dynamic shades.” The song cycle was premiered…

Alex Freeman’s choral symphony scored success
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Alex Freeman’s choral symphony scored success

Alex Freeman’s new choral symphony Ghost Light is a commission from the Helsinki Music Centre Choir. It was originally written to celebrate the choir’s 10th anniversary. Ghost Light is a stunning, expansive, 50-minute work for chorus and symphony orchestra, drawing upon the ecstatic optimism and imagery in the poetry of Walt Whitman, Rob Hardy and…

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Iiro Rantala’s Zaubermelodika scored success in Berlin

Rantala’s exciting opera commission Die Zaubermelodika was premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin on 24. October. A sequel to Mozart’s Magic Flute, the new opera features the same cast with a comic Rantala twist to the libretto by Minna Lindgren. The opera was met with an enthusiastic audience and reviews, which praised that the opera…