"These days Esa-Pekka Salonen is a superstar who spends seven months of each year composing and the rest conducting some of the world’s finest orchestras. He...

"It is mind-boggling to think just how much Finland and Finnish music have changed over the past 30 years."

"Traditional, academic criticism is giving way to a more collective and democratic form of criticism: we are today perhaps more interested than ever to learn what...

"The Kalevala, which has since been translated into 61 languages, has harnessed this metre into something particularly Finnish, as well as stifling it into a literary...

'Laulu', a film directed by Selma Vilhunen, portrays the encounter of people, their life stories, joys and sorrows in the heartland of runo singing.

Rap music has managed to conquer the world by being simultaneously both extremely local and quite universal. People use it to express themselves in a variety...

The most prolific and most popular opera librettist in Finland today is a writer, poet and musician from Peru: Maritza Núñez. The opera Frida y Diego...

Playing it safe and following others was never an option for Eicca Toppinen. When faced with a career crossroads before reaching his twenties, he chose the...

Transnationality has been a big thing in international cultural studies for the past decade. At the moment, there are several major research projects in the pipeline...