Christian Karlsen

One of the international guests at this year’s Time of Music festival in Viitasaari is the music theatre company La Chamber aux échos. Its mission is to explore subtle connections between the various branches of the arts. Co-founder, director-dramaturge Aleksi Barrière considers collaboration with contemporary composers to be a key element in his work. Recently, one of his principal artistic partners has been his mother, composer Kaija Saariaho.

Sampo Haapamäki has been employing quarter-tones in his music for more than a decade. In his new work, to be performed at the Time of Music festival in Viitasaari, he combines a large chamber ensemble and electronics.