Forty years have passed since FMQ was launched in 1985 as the Finnish Music Quarterly. In this column, editor-in-chief Lasse Lehtonen reflects on the past decades...

The accordion’s image in Finland has constantly been renegotiated by performers, composers, instrument makers and audiences who have recognised its potential in a variety of settings....

The accordion is poised to redefine its place in the musical world – its golden era is only just beginning. In this column, composer and accordionist...

Composing is often thought of as a lonely pursuit where a piece of music gradually takes shape in the mind of a solitary creator. But what...

In this column, composers working in Finland ask each other questions that can be on just about anything: their work, their technique, their philosophy or their...

“Early music – broadly defined – is anything but static. It stretches, bends, and reinvents itself in dialogue with a growing array of genres, traditions, and...

What happens when a composer turns away from the lush, uniform sound of the Romantic orchestra? In this column by composer Olli Virtaperko, the journey from...

How do you start a new music festival? In this column, Professor Seppo Kimanen, founder and organiser of multiple prominent classical music festivals in Finland, looks...

When choral conductor Ida Olsonen does vocal painting with the Musta lammas choir (whose name translates as ‘black sheep’), no one knows what the performance will...