Works in chronological order

Minna Leinonen, Touko Hujanen & Jussi Suonikko

Close your eyes, what do you see?

How does 566 climate-compensated coffee cups of premiered music sound?

Flowmatic Nights was composed to the poem written for this project by the prize-winning Danish-Iranian author Shadi Angelina Bazeghis. Besides me there were three composers who wrote a new work for this project: English-Lebanese Bushra El-turk, Iranian Farzia Fallah and Danish Josefine Opsahl. The text was translated into the mother tongues of the...

Endangered was composed as a mandatory semi-final piece of the Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition international series. One of the starting points of the composition was Hannikainen´s Sick Bird op. 14 no 10 for violin and piano, and its vulnerable, bird-like motif and the subsequent downward gesture. In addition, the work...

One of the moments that inspire me the most in composition is the state of seemingly limitless possibilities, when many things are still to be locked. The inspiration for the Helsinki Variations had to be a Finnish composition composed before 1945. The premise itself was exciting. I´m interested in anachronism in art, in this case, how folk...

For electro-acoustic accordion, cello with electronics

Strata was commissioned by the Korsholm Music Festival 2022, celebrating its 40th anniversary. The festival theme, trees and forests, gave rise to a work whose shape in my imagination reflects the arch of life, from tiny plant to ancient tree.

”We have only one globe. We need three point eight globes.”
Three point eight is a polarized work about the state of the world.

Olin tullut yöksi/I had come for a night is a cityinstallation planned and composed for Porvoo and Avanti! 2022. It was executed with Jussi Suonikko.

photo from Söderskär: Jussi Suonikko

I composed Piilo for 3 different levels: professional, advanced level (advanced special studies at music institute), pedagogical level (beginners level 2 at music institute).

Meeting Points (2019) was co-commissioned by Pirkanmaa Music institute and Vakka-Suomi music school and it was realized with the help of Arts Promotion Centre Finland. There are two arrangements of the work, first pedagogical version for wind orchestras and then an arrangement based on the first version for professional bands. The commissioners...