FMQ Special Feature 3/2022 joins the celebration of Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary career and creative output by addressing the various facets of her work and the impact...

Some years ago, debate emerged once again about equality, diversity and oppressive structures in Finnish music. This time, the debate became more than just debate, leading...

There is and has always been a tantalising mismatch between the non-conceptual entity that we know as music and scientific thinking. Musicology sits at the rich...

In FMQ Special Feature 4/2021, we take a look at the potential futures of music. Ecological reconstruction is an urgent priority, technology is everywhere, the economic...

The economy of the music industry has been hit by a number of adverse phenomena in recent years, most spectacularly by the collapse of live performances...

Special Feature 2/2021 takes a look at the physical and virtual spaces in which concerts are being produced and listened to in the 2020s. What are...

FMQ Special Feature 1/2021 focuses on the multiple relations between music, politics and social activism. What is the role of music in political campaigns? Should or...

FMQ Special Feature 4/2020 takes a look back at the year now ending and raises issues which have grown increasingly important during the present exceptional circumstances...

FMQ Special Feature 3/2020 is all about recent developments in Finnish music education. Finland’s music institutes have largely discontinued their level performance examinations, a long-standing system;...