"For better or worse, the occupation of a musician is largely defined by competing," writes Lasse Lehtonen.

"I would be delighted if an audience member said: 'Those ten minutes passed so quickly' after hearing my music", writes Mioko Yokoyama.

"All pieces in this Special Feature share one theme: the significance of encounters," writes Lasse Lehtonen.

“Studying under Kaija’s guidance proved to be an important experience to all of us who were learning from her – for some of us, you could...

"The festival has thoroughly taught me to question and to puzzle over what music actually is, whether considered as actions, definitions or delimitations. Even the simplest...

"I used to think of tight schedules as something that stand in the way of creativity. That the mind always needs time to ponder, weigh and...

"I am a composer of contemporary music, but also frequently an ordinary concertgoer – a music listener. My purpose here is to consider an art music...

"At some point, even the most rigid relics in the music industry will give up their defensive reactions and realise that, hang on, this diversity stuff...

"As the climate crisis accelerates and other societal threats emerge, musicologists can, whatever their speciality, join in demonstrating that the close co-existence of humans with each...