"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...

Kaija Saariaho, who settled in France in the early 1980s, spent the 1997- 98 academic year as visiting composition professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki,...

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...

“The orchestra as part of society” could well be the title of an ambitious project known for short as Education work that has so far got...

At closer range, Jaakko and Pekka Kuusisto do not even look alike. But it's been hard to convince the media that one is Jaakko and the...

A protégée of the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department, the vocal ensemble 'MeNaiset' has delved deep into the music not only of the Finno-Ugrian peoples but...

One afternoon in March 1997, while the eyes of the world were trained on the official residence of the Finnish President where Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin...