Close your eyes, what do you see?
Works in chronological order
...and we are rotating with it (2023)
...and we are rotating with it won the Teosto Prize 2024.
Flowmatic Nights
Flowmatic Nights was composed to the poem written for this project by the prize-winning Danish-Iranian author Shadi Angelina Bazeghi. 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
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...
Vimma/Frenzy (Helsinki Variations)
3333 4331 13 1, str [picc+afl, ehn, bcl, cbsn]
(Dis)similar
For electro-acoustic accordion, cello with electronics
Kerrostumat/Strata for piano quintet
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, the form of the work reflects the arc of the tree's life from tiny plant to ancient tree.
Three point eight for string quartet
”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
Piilo/Hide for saxophone
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 for Wind Band
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...
Vyöry/Avalanche
Vyöry/Avalanche seemed to have its own will reflecting the current restless social situation.
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