Music Finland’s latest report on the market value of music export shows that it continues to be a growing industry. Compiling music statistics is not without...

Edited by Vesa Kurkela and Marko Tikka and released in late 2014, a new book about the Finnish accordion covers, among other things, the early stages...

Music audiences’ age structure and consumer patterns are changing, offerings are growing and becoming more varied, but for now, one thing remains unchanged: there are enough...

This summer, the Time of Music festival will once again convert the sleepy little town of Viitasaari in the heart of the scenic Finnish lakeland into...

In summer 2015 fiddler Emilia Lajunen will undertook a concert tour of Finland by bicycle. Two months, more than 20 concerts at music festivals, over 2000...

The Lions have an interesting musical repertoire associated with them, and to the delight of many and the disgust of others this repertoire is revived every...

Sibelius’s music has, naturally, been a popular topic among Finnish music researchers. Three recent dissertations open new perspectives on the composer’s orchestral and vocal music. We...

Soprano Soile Isokoski, one of Finland’s internationally most celebrated singers, has returned to her roots and begun a new chapter in her life. As of this...

The concept of a national musical language made its way to Finland in the 1800s. One of the culminations of this new wave was the premiere...