Sampo Haapamäki has been employing quarter-tones in his music for more than a decade. In his new work, to be performed at the Time of Music...

Reports of the death of opera have been frequent since the Second World War, but as far as Finland is concerned they have been greatly exaggerated....

A group of four women who each both sing and play the kantele and who write songs in a consistent and original style, Kardemimmit have their...

Choral singing has made a vital contribution to Finland’s history and is a crucial building block of Finnish society. Pasi Hyökki is well versed in the...

In Finland, doctoral studies in music are available at university musicology departments and at the Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy which has two doctoral programs with a...

The accordion can do lots of things, but few perceive it as an instrument for performing classical music. Yet the classical accordion class at the Sibelius...

Composer, oboist and educator Riikka Talvitie shares her thoughts on the profession and training of composers now and in the future.

The organisations behind the Helsinki Music Centre’s Orchestra Academy are three of the biggest classical music institutions in the Finnish capital: the Sibelius Academy, the Finnish...

The Sibelius Academy is the only university-level music school in Finland. For decades, it used to be the only institution of any kind to provide tuition...