Lotta Wennäkoski is the profile composer at the 2024 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival alongside Sebastian Fagerlund. The programme will include many works by her, including the premiere of Sic for two violins by Minna Pensola and Antti Tikkanen on 24. July. The Katrina Kammarmusik festival in the island province of Åland has likewise chosen Wennäkoski as its house composer. One of the…
What are the various ways to touch upon the strings of violin and harp, if the musicians are equipped – in addition to fingertips and the bow – with a sheet of paper? Lotta Wennäkoski’s good-humoured Tocca (2019 / 2020) for violin and harp strolls through the journey, listening to the colours created by various…
Balai for guitar Balai for solo guitar (2009) was inspired by the most common technique on the world’s most common instrument – strumming. The Ballet interlude momentarily interrupts the rhythmic continuum with its decadent dance steps. “Balai” is French for a lute, a broom, or a dust mop. Balayettes for two guitars Lotta Wennäkoski’s Balayettes…
“Whizzing, growling and rattling – you can produce all kinds of sounds with the harp, not just the fairy-tale shimmer and glissandos that you first think of.” Lotta Wennäkoski composed Sigla for harp and orchestra (2021-2022) in close collaboration with the harpist Sivan Magen, to whom the concerto is dedicated. The title of the concerto,…
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 three movements, and the first movement can also be performed separately as a prologue to Schubert’s quartet. Buy now
