The recent immigration wave into Europe has proved that where there is no common language, music and art can provide an important communication avenue between immigrants...

The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) was an international anarcho-syndicalist union movement, which was founded in 1905 in Chicago. Finns were active in the movement...

Opera is not necessarily the elitist pursuit of only a small city set. Pentti Tynkkynen, a church musician living at idyllic little Punkaharju in Eastern Finland,...

What if the aim of music education was not to focus on producing masters, but to create a lifelong, enthusiastic connection with music, where an essential...

Over the decades, music has been an important element in the shaping of the identity of Finland’s Swedish-speaking population. Yet this minority has never had a...

The cultural cold war between the superpowers that began after the Second World War played a major role in shaping the international arts and culture scene...

Takemi Sosa completed a doctoral dissertation on the orchestral works of Magnus Lindberg at the University of Helsinki, uncovering the Aristotelian dramatic arc governing their structure....

In summer 1979, a number of Finnish composers and musicians attended a summer course in Siena, Italy. Three of them hit on an idea for a...

Kaisa Mäensivu studied double bass at the Sibelius Academy and continued her jazz studies at the Manhattan School of Music. She is now creating a career...