“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” is the key sentence in the essay A Room...

Finland’s most prominent music awards are given out at the Emma Gala on 6 May 2022. Broadcast live on TV, it is a night of glittering...

Classical music continues to define the Finnish identity. This year’s Emma nominees show that this year that identity is being shaped by poetry settings by Saariaho,...

Jazz has a way of pushing the envelope among the categories at the Emma Gala. Some nominees uphold the Scandinavian Jazz brand, while others take a...

The list of nominees suggests that the best ethno albums derive their energy from a collision of musical nuclei. Archive meets EDM, smooth meets rough, Karelia...

Jean Sibelius Works is compiling a critical edition of the complete works of Sibelius, based on a variety of archival sources. The study is building a...

Heikki Uimonen does not have a favourite sound. As an ethnomusicologist and a sound scholar, he is interested in all sounds. The more disturbing the better....

Doctors of Music have been graduating from the Sibelius Academy over 30 years. The spectrum of research undertaken at the academy is broad, but its principal...

Hietsu is Happening! runs on the logic of improvisation, while Helsinki Seriös has ambitions to become a new cornerstone of the chamber music scene. Both are...