Works in chronological order

for male choir, poem by Milka Luhtaniemi

In collaboration with Moomin museum and Moomin Characters.

Finland is the swampiest country in the world, which gave its name to the work. The word also refers to softness and allowance (in Finnish).

A song cycle for soprano and piano composed to Suvi Nuotio's current poems about how our seasons are changing, transforming and remaining for future generations.

Minna Leinonen, composition, concept idea
Jussi Suonikko, sound design

Rakkaat directed by Riikka Oksanen. Photo from the first performance: Minna Leinonen

Fantasy for the Other Worlds was inspired by two Mary Wollstonecraft´s (1759-1797) sentences: 'imagination is the true fire' (Letters: 264) and 'some flights of the imagination seem to reach what wisdom cannot teach' (Works 5: 274). Pianist Tiina Karakorpi´s new concert series Maryn sormenjäljillä (Mary´s fingerprints) presents female artists and...

Minna Leinonen, Touko Hujanen & Jussi Suonikko

Close your eyes, what do you see?

...and we are rotating with it won the Teosto Prize 2024.

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 piano (arranged for violin and piano by his brother Arvo Hannikainen), and its vulnerable, bird-like motif and...

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