Taavi Oramo's multiple roles
Conductor, electronic musician, singer, clarinettist and producer Taavi Oramo is known as a highly diverse and open-minded musician. Though increasingly performing as a conductor, he is keen to keep up his multiple other roles too: the various aspects of music-making that he is involved in are mutually supportive.
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Special Feature 1/2019
The perfect sound - mastering, measuring and myths
In this Special Feature, we explore the mysteries of sound quality. Our guides are high-end audio firms, internationally acclaimed recording producers and recording engineers, a Professor of Acoustics and a composer-researcher. We believe that this feature will be of interest to both hi-fi enthusiasts and hi-fi avoiders.
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Teenagers faced with arts
Taidetestaajat [Arts Testers] is a gigantic cultural project that over a period of three years will take every 8th grader in Finland to visit two cultural venues. The resulting encounters are sometimes wonderful, sometimes not so much, but in every case they leave a trace on audience members and organisers alike.
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Avanto adventures with Kimmo Pohjonen
"When accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen invited me to join him at his sauna society in January I couldn’t resist. But I was afraid. I’ve been courageous enough to attend many Kimmo shows and survived. But here was a challenge."
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Women and Violin - Chamber Music by Helvi Leiviskä
LIVE STREAM, 10 Feb 2019
Watch a concert featuring Helvi Leiviskä's chamber music from the G18 concert hall, Helsinki.
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A celebration of historical Finnish women who wrote music, Part 1:
Activists strive for gender equality
The history of Finnish music is unexpectedly rich in women who have written music. Nearly three dozen interesting personalities may be found in the 19th and early 20th centuries alone. The present series of articles discusses the lives and music of these women – an excellent opportunity for the reader to learn more about this largely unexplored group of Finnish classical composers.
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FLASH FLASH
Andy Warhol in an opera focus
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” Flash Flash ‒ Two Holograms and An Intermission, a chamber opera created by composer Juhani Nuorvala and librettist Juha Siltanen, fulfils the requirements set by Andy Warhol for his art, as presented in the above quote. This Finnish opera is an unusual depiction of Warhol’s various existences, a portrait of a famous lonely man surrounded by the masses.
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From the Archives (1985–2005)
FMQ began life as a printed magazine – the Finnish Music Quarterly – in 1985. Until 2005, its articles were only available in hard copy.
Selected articles from our back catalogue have been posted online, and the selection is continuously being added to.
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