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7 questions for Henna Salmela
Director of Administration Henna Salmela is retiring after an extensive and distinguished career of 36 years in music publishing. She joined Fazer Musiikki as a press officer and has witnessed the company’s evolution from a small part in a major corporation into an independent and active operator in the field of art music. Here, she…
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Lotta Wennäkoski Receives State Recognition
Composer Lotta Wennäkoski received the First Class Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland on 5 June 2026. The distinction had been awarded to her by the President of the Republic on Finland’s Independence Day last year. The decoration was presented by Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Chair of the Society of Finnish Composers….
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Violin Blend 2024 – 18 new Finnish violin duos
Violin Blend 2024 (Viulukimara 2024) presents 18 pieces for two violins by eight Finnish composers, all written between 2014 and 2024. The works are suitable for a repertoire ranging from elementary to music institute levels, offering a rich spectrum of stylistically diverse music: from the shivering, dreamlike tones of Johanna Eränkö and Lotta Wennäkoski to…
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Piano Blend 2010 – 24 piano works by Finnish contemporary composers (Pianokimara 2010)
Piano Blend 2010 consists of 24 piano compositions by 12 contemporary Finnish composers, written between 1987 and 2010. Most of the pieces were composed in the 21st century. The collection presents a wide variety of music in terms of content, musical language, and style, and the pieces are suitable for enriching programmes from basic-level studies…
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Kalevi Aho: Concerto for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra
Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) wrote his concerto for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra in 2014–15 at the request of the saxophonist Anders Paulsson. The concerto is cast in three movements. Buy now
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Ilkka Kuusisto: Eläimellisiä lauluja for voice & piano
Ilkka Kuusiston (1933-2025) laulusarja Eläimellisiä lauluja (1999) ilakoi Tapsa Rantasen absurdeilla, naulan kantaan osuvilla teksteillä. Lauluista kaksi (Kameleontti ja Olisipa varaanilla baari) voidaan esittää kahden laulajan vuoropuheluna. Kissa soittaa viulua -kappaleessa on mukana viulustemma. Buy now
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Ralf Gothóni: Viisi suomalaista kansanlaulua (5 Finnish folk songs) for voice & piano
Five well-known Finnish folk songs, brilliantly arranged by pianist-composer Ralf Gothóni, are here gathered under one cover! The arrangements gained wider public attention through the 1996 recording by Karita Mattila and Ilmo Ranta, and have since inspired singer–pianist duos to create interpretations ranging from wistful to boisterous. This edition also includes English translations of the…
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Carita Holmström: Måla himlen (Taivaan maalari) for voice & piano
Carita Holmström’s (b. 1954) song cycle Måla himlen (Taivaan maalari, 2008) consists of 13 songs set to poems by Bo Carpelan. Singable Finnish translations by Kaarina Helakisa are included. This stylistically versatile cycle also offers valuable pedagogical material, expanding the traditional Lied repertoire with touches of jazz, chanson, folk, and pop music. Buy now
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Works for guitar
With the acquisition of Uusinta Publishing catalogue, Fennica Gehrman is republishing these guitar works. J.S. Bach (arr. Hackman): Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041) Buy now Sampsa Ertamo: Sparkler Buy now Kai Nieminen: From… Shadows.. of Songs… The … Winds… Buy now Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Dorean Dumble Dorean (A triptych for guitar solo) Buy now…
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Lotta Wennäkoski: Solo works and chamber music
Lotta Wennäkoski (b. 1970) studied at the Budapest Conservatory as well as at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and completed her studies in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. Her music has been performed at an increasing rate around the world. Along solo and orchestral works, Wennäkoski has also written a wealth of chamber music. With the acquisition…
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Markus Fagerudd: Solo works and chamber music
Markus Fagerudd (b. 1961) has a broad output as a composer, from solo pieces and film music to big orchestra works. He is especially well-known for his works for the stage, both children’s operas and musicals as well as different kinds of theatre collaborations, often courageously crossing borders between arts and genres. With the acquisition…
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Jennah Vainio: Urhon ihmeelliset seikkailut for guitar
The Wondrous Adventures of Rocky for guitar (2019) by Jennah Vainio consists of 15 pieces that combine classical guitar technique with heavy metal and rock aesthetics. There are not many works like these available for elementary-level players. The musical world of the compositions speaks strongly to both the player and the listener. Each piece has…
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New developments at Fennica Gehrman
Fennica Gehrman’s new Director of Marketing and Administration will be PhD Hanna Isolammi, an experienced music professional, researcher, and journalist. They have extensive knowledge of the composer community and the music branch both in Finland and internationally. “I am motivated by this opportunity as contemporary art music is especially close to my heart,” says Isolammi,…
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Mikko Sidoroff: Träumen for mixed choir
The poems of Mikko Sidoroff’s four-movement Träumen for mixed choir (2025) have been selected from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Träumen (Traumgekrönt, 1896), in which the master poet weaves together the great themes of life with touching sensitivity. In the first movement, a lonely soul seeks comfort in the silver-glimmering winter night. The second movement paints a…
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Matthew Whittall: ad puram annihilationem meam… Ritual for mixed choir and percussion
Matthew Whittall’s ad puram annihilationem meam (“to the purest annihilation of myself”, 2008) for mixed choir juxtaposes facets of Christian liturgy, like plainchant, with a more spacious ritual atmosphere influenced by gagaku music. The plainchant opens and closes the work, framing the central rite, which is more responsory in character. Buy now
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Outi Tarkiainen: Solo works and chamber music
Outi Tarkiainen (born 1985) is one of the new generation of composers whose work bears witness to the world around it and whose music engages audiences while advancing the art form without compromise. ‘I see music as a force of nature that can flood over a person and even change entire destinies,’ she has said….
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Lasse Eerola: Pedagogical collections for wind instruments
The Finnish composer and pedagogue Lasse Eerola (1945–2000) studied clarinet, theory of music and solfege at the Sibelius Academy as well as composition with Jouko Tolonen and Einojuhani Rautavaara. He developed as a composer through constant listening, research, and performance. Though most of Eerola’s compositions are written for symphony or wind orchestra, his works also…
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Pessi Levanto (ed. Päivi Severeide): Dreams and Echoes – 12 songs for harp
When one of the most prominent film composers in Finland collaborates with an insightful artist and a distinguished pedagogue, the result is a dazzling collection of new music that fills a pedagogical gap in the repertoire suitable for advanced amateur harpists and harp students. Pessi Levanto’s Echoes and Dreams – 12 songs for harp leans…
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Kalevi Aho: Double concerto for flute, harp and orchestra
Almost every time the orchestra has a double concerto for flute and harp on its program, it plays a work from Mozart’s early years. Flutist Marina Piccinini and harpist Anneleen Lenaerts wanted something more and asked Kalevi Aho for a different kind of double concerto that would bring out the possibilities of solo instruments more…
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Kalevi Aho: Mearra – Chamber concerto for harp and strings
In July and August 2016 Kalevi Aho worked for two and a half weeks in the former house of the Sámi artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001) in Lássagámmi in Yykeänperä (Skibotn), which currently serves as an artist’s residence. The 20-minute chamber concerto for harp and strings, Mearra was created for the most part there, on the…
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Matei Gheorghiu: War Nocturne for violin, violoncello and piano
Matei Gheorghiu’s (b. 1984) War Nocturne for violin, violoncello and piano was comissioned by the Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition 2026. In this 6-minute work the composer looks at the conflict between Israel and Gaza from a sad and outsider perspective: “I don’t like forcing a direction or theme to the music. In this…
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Mikko Heiniö: Allora for violoncello
Mikko Heiniö’s Allora for violoncello solo (114./2022) was commissioned and premiered by Erkki Lahesmaa. The 10-minute work contains elements from the composition (1864) by the Ukrainian priest Mykhailo Verbytsky (1815–1870), which later became the national anthem of Ukraine. Buy now
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Lasse Eerola: Etudes for clarinet
Lasse Eerola’s etude collections for clarinet provide an essential and inspiring foundation for learning. 25 studies for clarinet offers a musically enjoyable way for clarinet students to expand their range, techniques, and expression skills. Buy now
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Kai Nieminen: Hathor for guitar
Kai Nieminen’s enigmatic guitar miniature is like a sounding statue of Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess of joy, dance, music, and love. The slowly, dignified descending decorative motifs are accompanied by flute sound rays and alternating gentle and commanding sound columns. At the end of the composition, accompanied by the distant sound of footsteps, Hathor’s…
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Kaija Saariaho: Du gick, flög for voice & cello or piano
As a composition student under Paavo Heininen’s mentorship, Kaija Saariaho (1952-2003) was fascinated by poetry that had an experimental and playful relationship to verbal expression, a lot of which was written in Swedish. In 1979, she was very much immersed in the output of a Swede Finn, Gunnar Björling, and from his poetry she composed…
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Ralf Gothóni: Viisi suomalaista kansanlaulua / Five Finnish Folk Songs for voice and piano
Five well-known Finnish folk songs, brilliantly arranged by pianist-composer Ralf Gothóni, are here gathered under one cover! The arrangements gained wider public attention through the 1996 recording by Karita Mattila and Ilmo Ranta, and have since inspired singer–pianist duos to create interpretations ranging from wistful to boisterous. This edition also includes English translations of the…
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Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Three arias from monologue opera Ilona irti for soprano & piano
Novelist Leena Lehtolainen was invited to write the libretto of Timo-Juhani Kyllönen’s monologue opera Ilona irti (Release Joy, 2019). The story deals with the unequal status of women and the harassment which is at times evident in present-day society. It tackles the #MeToo movement from different perspectives. The original score is for soprano, violin, violoncello…
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Timo-Juhani Kyllönen: Eino Leino -sarja sekakuorolle (Suite for mixed choir)
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen made three settings to poems by Eino Leino (1878-1926) for mixed choir: Hyvyys; Erotessa & Kuu kalpea kulkevi kulkuaan. The cycle was premiered by Tapiola Chamber Choir conducted by Hannu Norjanen in November 2025. Buy now
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Uusinta catalogue
Nearly 200 works from the prestigious Uusinta catalogue have now found a home at Fennica Gehrman. Here are the latest additions in our web shop: Outi TarkiainenThe Baudelaire Songs for soprano and pianoObsession II for flute and pianoSans paroles for clarinetKunnes kivi halkeaa (Until the Stone Splits) for violinTrois poèmes for string quartet Piano Blend…
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More awards for Kalevi Aho albums
The CD by English clarinettist Julian Bliss featuring Clarinet Concertos by Kalevi Aho and Magnus Lindberg won the BBC Music Magazine Award in the Concerto category. Another Kalevi Aho’s album won the prestigious International Classical Music Award in the contemporary music category. It features the Moonlight Concerto for viola and percussion and the Alto Flute Concerto, performed…
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Helena Tulve’s Wand’ring Bark
Helena Tulve‘s 12-minute Wand’ring Bark for orchestra will receive several performances during this spring season. Among the first was the Orchestre de Paris concert on 18. February . According to Resmusica.com “this deeply poetic work drifts by like a dream and is wonderfully brought to life by Paavo Järvi. Though placed in the delicate role…
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Fennica Gehrman acquires Uusinta’s catalogue
Fennica Gehrman has acquired Uusinta Publishing Company’s catalogue as from 1 January 2026. It consists of some 200 works by contemporary Finnish composers such as Outi Tarkiainen, Sebastian Fagerlund, Ralf Gothóni and Osmo-Tapio Räihälä. During its 25 years of existence, Uusinta (meaning “replay” and “newest”) created a valued and compact catalogue mainly of chamber works. Pedagogical…
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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…
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Haemme markkinointi- ja hallintojohtajaa
Fennica Gehrman Oy Ab on Suomen johtava taidemusiikin kustantamo, joka julkaisee uusia sävellyksiä sekä pedagogisia nuottimateriaaleja ja levittää niitä maailmanlaajuisesti. Toimimme myös ulkomaisten kustantajien edustajana Suomessa. Hallintojohtajamme siirtyessä eläkkeelle rekrytoimme pieneen mutta ketterään asiantuntijaorganisaatioomme markkinointi- ja hallintojohtajan vakituiseen työsuhteeseen. Edellytämme soveltuvaa korkeakoulututkintoa, suomalaisen nykymusiikkikentän tuntemusta, verkostoituneisuutta sekä liiketoiminnan ja markkinoinnin osaamista. Vapaamuotoiset hakemukset pyydämme 15.2.2026 mennessä…
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Lasten lied! 4 – Runometsässä
Vuonna 2024 järjestettyyn L.I.E.D. -sävellyskilpailuun osallistui 86 säveltäjää Suomesta ja ympäri maailmaa. Kilpailun myötä syntyi uutta lapsille ja nuorille tarkoitettua liedmusiikkia 105 teoksen ja 247 yksittäisen liedin verran! Lasten lied! 4 – Runometsässä on valikoima kilpailun satoa erityisesti Luontoliiton tukemasta kilpailusarjasta, joka keskittyi alle 10-vuotiaitten liedparien ohjelmistoon. Runometsässä bongaillaan keväisiä lajeja perhosista sammakoihin, ihaillaan kallion…
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Paavo Heininen: Jouluconcertino for voice & piano
Vocal music was perhaps the closest to Paavo Heininen’s (1938-2022) heart because of his passion for texts: the marriage of word and music was to him something unique, allowing the composer and the poet to express more together than they could ever do alone. Jouluconcertino op. 90 (2002) (Christmas concertino in Finnish”) is set to…
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New works for mixed choir
Kalevi Aho: Neljä joululaulua (Four Christmas Songs)The extremely hardworking composer Kalevi Aho has written almost nothing to choirs in recent years. The more interesting are these new Christmas songs for mixed choir that Aho wrote in summer 2025. The five songs will receive their premiere with the Chamber choir Kaamos conducted by Visa Yrjölä on…
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Works for solo violoncello
Lauri Mäntysaari: KimaraKimara (cluster [of colors], 2025) is a collection of short, color-inspired pieces for cello. They can be performed in any order, individually or scattered throughout a concert program – anything goes! Movements are Kohiseva valkoinen (Noisy White), Sähkönsininen (Electric Blue) and Keväänvihreä (Spring Green). The work was commissioned by the Turku Music Society…
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New works for solo trombone
Kai Nieminen: SigmaSigma for solo trombone was written in 1998. Composer Kai Nieminen tells that inspiration behind the name is from the way trombone’s slide moves during playing. The musical material is related to orchestral work ”Le città invisibili” (Invisible Cities, 1998) by Nieminen. The work was written for trombone player Matti ”Korkki” Korhonen. Buy…
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Einar Englund: Concerto for violin and orchestra
Downloadable and printable PDF product. Einar Englund wrote this violin concerto in 1981. The work is in three movements: Allegro moderato, Moderato and Finale: Allegro molto. The duration is 28 minutes. Buy now
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Einar Englund: Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra
Einar Englund won the first prize in the composition competition organized by the Helsinki Culture Foundation with his Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra (1955). This product is the reduction for two pianos made by the composer, also available as printable PDF product. The duration of the work is about 23 minutes. Buy now
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Kalevi Aho: String Quartet No. 5
Kalevi Aho composed his 5th string quartet in autumn 2021 as a commission from the Kamus Quartet. It is dedicated to the memory of the German-Austrian musicologist Elke Albrecht, who died on 29.9.2021 at the age of only 40. Albrecht was one of the leading experts on Finnish opera; her doctoral thesis was about operas…
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Lars Karlsson: String Quartet No. 1
Lars Karlsson’s String quartet No. 1 was composed in 1997 and revised in 2025. The first performance of the revised version was played by Tempera Quartet in October 2025. Buy now
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Pehr Henrik Nordgren: String quintet
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008) composed string quintet op. 110 in 2000. The work is scored for two violins, viola and two cellos. In his 4th and 5th symphonies (1997 and 1998) Nordgren had been particularly fascinated by the world of Ingrian shepherd melodies and laments, which are characterized by the continuous magical repetition of simple…
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Aulis Sallinen: String Quartet No. 4
Aulis Sallinen’s one-movement fourth string quartet (1971) has a subtitle Quiet Songs (Hiljaisia lauluja). In contrast to the splintered plurality of the third quartet, the fourth is a homogenous minor-key landscape that never rises above mezzoforte. The subdued resignation, somehow recalling Shostakovich, is interrupted only by a few fleeting faster sections. Now also available as…
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Lotta Wennäkoski: Glimt, skymt for four flutes
The score of Lotta Wennäkoski’s Glimt, skymt (Swedish for “Glimpse, glance”) for four flutes opens with a citation from Tua Forsström: “And the water is sparkling and everything is sparkling and happening for the first time again”. Duration 9 minutes. Buy now
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Ilkka Kuusisto: Hymns for violoncello and accordion (PDF)
Downloadable and printable PDF edition. Mstislav Rostropovich once said that violoncello and accordion go together much better than cello and piano. Ilkka Kuusisto’s Hymns for violoncello and accordion (1999-2000) confirm this statement with celestial harmony and accordance – and with some exploding energy! The work has three movements and lasts about 11 minutes. Buy now
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Mikko Heiniö: Concerto for kantele, violin and string orchestra
Mikko Heiniö’s double concerto for kantele, violin and string orchestra (2020-2021) was commissioned by Eija Kankaanranta and premiered by her, Antti Tikkanen (violin) and the Ostrobothinian Chamber orchestra. Duration: 25′ Coming soon
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Maukan ja Väykän laulukirja
Iiro Rantalalta ja Timo Parvelalta on ilmestynyt laulukirja suosittuun Maukka ja Väykkä–tarinasarjaan, joka on tuttu sekä televisiosta, teatterista, kirjoista että konserteista. Maukan ja Väykän laulukirjan on kuvittanut Virpi Talvitie, kuten alkuperäiset Parvelan lastenkirjatkin.Kirjassa ovat mukana kaikki televisiosta tutut laulut nuotteineen, sanoineen ja sointumerkkeineen. Ne kuplivat iloa ja huumoria ja vievät kuvien ja tarinoiden kautta huimalle…
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Iiro Rantala – Timo Parvela: Maukan ja Väykän laulukirja
Televisiosta tutut Maukka-kissa ja Väykkä-koira laulattavat ja riemastuttavat tässä iloa pursuavassa kokoelmassa. Kirjan 23 kuplivaa laulua vievät kuvien ja tarinoiden kautta huimalle musiikkimatkalle, johon mahtuu hullunhauskoja toilailuja, yhteisiä seikkailuja ja lämmintä viisautta. Laulukirjan sisältämän QR-koodin kautta pääset kuuntelemaan Iiro Rantalan sekä Maukkaa ja Väykkää esittävien laulaja-näyttelijöiden Lotta Kuusiston ja Paavo Kerosuon vauhdikkaat tulkinnat kirjan kappaleista….
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Carita Holmström: Catacombs for string quartet
The inspiration for Catacombs (2005), a string quartet by Carita Holmström came from her visit to the 2000-year-old catacombs where the Christians of that time were hiding from the Roman persecution. The composer tells: “The atmosphere and history of that place gave me the idea to tell the story of a spiritual journey of a…
