Lara Poe‘s music is rapidly gaining ground. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra has focused on Lara Poe’s music in its 2024/25 season with performances of her Kaamos and Onerva Songs. Poe’s latest orchestral work Kun usva helisee (As the mists gently chime) will be premiered by the Finnish RSO at the Helsinki Musica Nova festival on…
Lara Poe’s energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of the second movement diverges to the third movement’s overtone derived chords. Duration c. 25 minutes. Buy now
Bouncy and brisk – but also expressive and super lyrical – Lara Poe’s Mainspring for alto saxophone and piano (2020) makes the most of the two instruments. Duration 4’30 Buy now
