What happened when Jean Sibelius and Larin Paraske met? This is one way to imagine the scene, from the runo singer’s point of view.

What relevance does Sibelius – and his big anniversary – hold for the wider Finnish music and culture scene in 2015? Andrew Mellor asked five musicians...

Following the general European trend, musical meanings that could be interpreted as nationalistic were put to use in Finland during the first half of the 20th...

Jean Sibelius was a political person throughout his life, although this should be understood in the right way. He was never a member of any political...

Someone once described Finland as an orchestral utopia. And we are indeed said to have more orchestras per capita than any other country in the world....

The International Minifiddlers distance-learning project is testing a new kind of learning environment for studying the violin. At the same time the East Helsinki Music Institute...

The Sibelius Academy, Finland’s only music university, has for the past two years been part of the University of the Arts trio, together with the Theatre...

The latest Finnish examples of using multimedia to add to the way people experience music via use of new media are augmented reality application Arilyn, and...

A study published by the Foundation for Cultural Policy Research Cupore in 2013 investigated the importance of central government transfers for Finnish orchestras, using as its...