Kevätkesän avaruus/The space of early summer – lied
photo: Minna Leinonen
Kevätkesän avaruus started from poet Suvi Nuotio´s suggestion to collaborate. When winter´s long darkness was giving way to spring we wanted to try to catch a moment of glow into this lied. Kevätkesän avaruus won 1st prize in Majaoja Foundation´s lied competition in 2018.
Jury´s comments on work:
Minna Leinonen´s Kevätkesän avaruus builds delicate musical moments by subtle and expressive ways. Vocal line is grateful to sing and piano part resonates exceptionally beautifully. Words and melody are in nourishing interplay with each other - music calls to stay with poem and vice versa.
Suvi Nuotio´s poem has a hue of experimentality and a lot of light. Poem is timed with repeating elements but it is also charmingly scattered and splashes like northern summer night´s eternal shine. Poem has plenty of joy of the bright season but also questions and suspicions which brings contrast to poem´s overwhelmed brightness. Questions of darkness creates tension into poem´s delight and simultaneuously adds its attractiveness.
30 Nov 2018
Minna Leinonen and poet Suvi Nuotio win the 1st prize in the Lied competition of the Majaoja Foundation
https://majaoja-saatio.fi/kilpailut/
F.p. 29th Sep 2019
Katja Vepsäläinen, soprano and Cecilia Oinas, piano
Majaoja Foundation
Arvo Pärt Center, Tallinn
COMING UP: A song cycle to Suvi Nuotio´s upcoming poems.
14.5.2023 Milla Mäkinen, soprano, Jenna Ristilä, piano
Review
Minna Leinonen´s Kevätkesän avaruus builds delicate musical moments in subtle and expressive ways. Vocal line is grateful to sing and piano part resonates exceptionally beautifully. Words and melody are in nourishing interplay with each other - music appeals to stay with the poem and vice versa.
- The jury of Majaoja Foundation 11/2018, 1st prize in lied composition competition
Other performances
25th May 2023
Kumi Shimozaki, soprano
Olivia Moss, piano
Musiikkitalo Organo, Helsinki
1st August 2022
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Henri Sigfridsson, piano
Korsholm Music Festival
Babtist church, Vaasa
14th May 2022
Jenna Ristilä, piano
Milla Mäkinen, soprano
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
https://www.uniarts.fi/tapahtumat/jenna-ristila-naisten-salonki/
20th February 2021
Kaisa Kraft, soprano
Anni Collan, piano
live stream from Crichton Hall at 6 pm
https://www.wewfestival.com/program_feb16/
23th April 2020
Taavi Oramo, tenor
Matleena Nyman, piano
stream: Tapiola Sinfonietta