Wimme Saari, one of the world’s best-known Sámi performers, has made a powerful comeback after a long break away from the recording studio. His new album,...

It all began when Ellen Urho, then Rector of the Sibelius Academy, hit on the idea of launching a musical counterpart to Form Function Finland and...

Jazz composer and musician Heikki Sarmanto was one of his generation’s foremost figures in the 1960s, when Finnish jazz moved away from the traditional towards a...

" All nations have an indigenous construct of 'popular music' which is largely unknown abroad. "

The tango arrived in Finland during the great European tango fever of 1911—1913. Eventually in the 1930s Finns really started composing tangos themselves, which led to...

For Aho, composing music is an inevitable way of contemplating existential questions and of taking responsability for what is happening in the world.

The composer Selim Palmgren walked a tightrope between national and international trends in music. He was part of the Finnish national music movement but tried to...

Einar Englund is one of the most controversial composers in post-war Finland. Though regarded by some as a Classicist, he also acquired a reputation as a...

Composer Magnus Lindberg is constantly engaged in research and development to find new ideas. The passing of time does not make composing any easier – Lindberg...