Atso Almila

"The combination of flute, viola, and harp creates a heavenly balanced and rich sound, and one regrets that the recording is so short, only a good thirty minutes."

War, prison camps, famine and death are rather less than cheerful topics to feature at a music festival. Sibafest 2018, organised by the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, managed to find optimism within its chosen theme of #civilpeace – a message of peace, future, reconciliation and coexistence.