On the date of publication of this column, Tomi Räisänen’s organ concerto Pulmo, which was awarded the grand prize in the Kaija Saariaho Organ Composition Competition,...

"We should be talking much more about how AI affects our capabilities in critical thinking (or thinking in general) and how we are able to assess...

Your friends on social media are not your friends; they are just people who are notified of updates to your account. Similarly, artificial intelligence is not...

"There is a lot of children’s music being made in Finland, with diverse approaches, but it is not easy to come by at random these days,"...

It may be clichéd to note that music is an exceptionally powerful medium for channeling strong emotions, but this cliché certainly underscores its validity when one...

"Video game music has become increasingly prominent in musical life in Finland. This special issue introduces some of the fascinating and diverse aspects of game music...

I still vividly remember how surprised I was when, more than 20 years ago, I first popped Final Fantasy V Dear Friends (1993) into my CD...

“The biggest part of my professional life so far has been writing game music arrangements, which have been performed by symphony orchestras around the world”, writes...

“It is easy for the Japanese audience to sympathise with the musical characteristics of Finnish works,” writes Yuri Nitta, conductor and chair of the Sibelius Society...