Susanna Mälkki began her three-year term as Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra this autumn. We asked her about the themes of her first HPO...

How does the latitude of Finland affect creativity among musicians, aesthetically and politically? Andrew Mellor asked some Finns, non-Finns and almost-Finns…

Radiopuhelimet has been performing “rural rock music” in Finnish for three decades. The visions embraced by the band are realistic, sometimes repellently so. Vocalist J.A....

Ten Finnish songs about or inspired by nature selected by Matti Nives.

In Finland, dozens of music events with strong connections to nature are organised each summer. Nature itself seems to form an integral part of a successful...

Music is known to have a physical and psychological – and not just aesthetic and emotional – effect on us. But why is this so? This...

Cut off a piece of willow, construct a whistle and blow through it – this is as close as it gets to a perfect combination of...

Kaija Saariaho has been a frequent visitor to the USA in recent years, and her music has been widely performed in various concert series and at...

In 2016 women are still under-represented in classical concert repertoire, never mind the canon. At contemporary music concerts, however, women appear as composers with increasing frequency....