Matthew Whittall news - Fennica Gehrman

The world premiere of Matthew Whittall’s oboe concerto In the New Light of Spring was on the program of the Vaasa City Orchestra 13. December 2024. Anni Haapaniemi was the soloist and the concert was conducted by Tomas Djupsjöbacka. The work is a co-commission involving also the Tapiola Sinfonietta which will perform the concerto in autumn 2025.
Whittall’s previous large-scale work Joy for organ and orchestra was premiered by the Finnish RSO in May and it was later awarded by the Finnish Music Publishers.
Fennica Gehrman has recently published choral works by Whittall such as the large cycle for mixed choir, Songs of Travel, to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson and love is a place, three songs after E. E. Cummings.
Matthew Whittall will be 50 years old in January 2025.