Eversince I became familiar with Stockhausen's tempered tempo scales and the organization of time in his 1950s pieces, the rhythmic element has been assuming an increasingly...

In his article from 1987 Markku Kilpiö takes a look at Finnish choral singing.

“. . . seule la métaphore est exacte ... “ (Roland Barthes) Eero Tarasti, successor to Erik Tawaststjerna as professor of music at the University of Helsinki,...

Magnus Lindberg, 28, is among the most internationally successful of young Finnish composers. This year his orchestral work KRAFT took 1st prize in the Unesco International...

Although still only 28, Esa-Pekka Salonen probably needs little introduction for anyone with even a moderate interest in classical music, since he has already gained what...

Paavo Heininen got down to a serious composing career, geared from the outset towards large works, at a relatively early age. This beginning came in the...

With the works he wrote in the 1920s Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958) together with Ernest Pingoud and Väinö Raitio, planted the seed of modernism in Finnish music....

On the subject of competitions, opinions are highly divided amongst the music fraternity, competitions are seen as furthering the careers of those who do well in...

In this article Einojuhani Rautavaara describes the background to his opera Thomas, and explains certain technical aspects of the opera's musical structure. Thomas had its first...