Aspects of shared visions in music:
Joining voices
Shared authorship, dialogue, positive questioning and new kinds of cooperation. Our Special Feature 1/2020 addresses manifestations of collective creativity and authorship in music at a time when humanity perhaps more than ever needs to be able to work together and to adapt to new and unknown.
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The coronavirus changes everything – but it cannot stop the music!
The coronavirus pandemic cannot stop the music: times of crisis such as this heighten the importance of music in bringing people together and providing encouragement and comfort. In the absence of live performances, online concerts come to the rescue. FMQ compiles information on available live streaming and explains how Finnish music is responding to the challenges of the pandemic. This article will be updated on a weekly basis, so watch this space!
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Tampere Biennale 2020
Human being speaks to human being
The Tampere Biennale 2020, a contemporary music festival scheduled for April, has been cancelled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Biennale is currently exploring possibilities for going ahead with some of the concerts without a live audience and broadcasting them via YLE, and for rescheduling some of the concerts. Composer Jennah Vainio, the artistic director of the Tampere Biennale, spoke to FMQ about the scheduled programme of the event and about her work as a composer.
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Musicians from all over the world meet in Finland’s first
Middle Eastern Orchestra
Five concerts, all sold out – and a queue of hundreds of people who had to be excluded from the final concert. No one can say there is no demand for music like this! When Ali Haithem emigrated from Iraq to Finland in 2015, he did not know anyone in Helsinki but often spent time at the Music Centre café in order to get to know people. Four years later, he was in Camerata hall in the same building playing the oud with the Middle Eastern Orchestra that he had founded.
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Eija Kankaanranta
A hands-on approach to sound
Kantele player Eija Kankaanranta constantly challenges herself as a musician and embraces the new dimensions she discovers in her instrument.
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An overview and a playlist
Music from the Moominvalley
To mark the 75th anniversary of the first Moomin book, FMQ gives an overview of music that has been composed over the years based on and inspired by Moomin stories.
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A celebration of historical Finnish women who wrote music, Part 5:
Alexandra Zheleznova-Armfelt
Composer Alexandra Zheleznova-Armfelt (1866–1933) was a member of the Finnish community in St Petersburg and created her career outside Finland itself. A review of her life and work adds to our understanding of the cosmopolitan nature of our musical history and also lends a perspective on cultural life in St Petersburg and in the Baltic Sea region in general around the turn of the 20th century.
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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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