New commission for Lara Poe

Lara Poe‘s new orchestral piece Whirligig was premiered by the Oulu Symphony and Rumon Gamba on 9 May. The piece is a joint commission by the Oulu SO, the Naantali Music Festival and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra . All in all it will be performed at three venues as Naantali will follow on 6 June and later Lahti.
Lara Poe is a young composer whose music has attracted exceptional international attention in the past few years. The Finnish RSO focused on her works in the 2024/25 season and her Songs from the Countryside was heard at the Proms in 2024.