The following article was published in an anthology of Ernest Pingoud’s writings collectively entitled “The Progress of Art” (Taiteen edistys), edited by Kalevi Aho in 1995....

Paavo Berglund, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, and Neeme Järvi are today's great Sibelius conductors, carrying on a tradition...

Estonia is near Finland, but Estonian and Finnish contemporary music differ considerably from one another. Composer Kalevi Aho has acquainted himself with Estonian music for instance...

Flying home from Vienna in June 1997, Antti Siirala had more than the usual collection of souvenirs in his hand luggage: the promise of a Bösendorfer...

The history of electronic music in general is yet a short one, and affords an interesting angle on the passing of time. Experiments made 40 or...

"It may sound a bit crazy, but I actually think of myself more as a composer than a conductor. It just so happens that the conducting...

The title would appear to be hooked up to the concept of “music and language”, or even “music as language”. As it happens, this summer I...

The Estonian song festival is a concept whose history and significance cannot be assessed with conventional artistic criteria. Since the last century, the song festivals organized...

Brass music has its own centres in finland, though they manage to be about as far from each other in east-west terms as the country s...