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Among Finnish jazz musicians, those who have completed an entire degree abroad remain very much a minority. Yet seeking perspective away from home may help find a voice that can become internationally distinctive. This article features three pianist-composers for whom studying abroad proved to be a meaningful choice.

For all the grief that the coronavirus pandemic has caused, it has also brought out a great many strengths in the music sector. People in the arts are no strangers to creative, solution-oriented thinking and reactiveness, and the exceptional circumstances we are experiencing have bred novel concepts, operating models, content and applications.

Collaborations between visual artists and musicians are leading music as an artform into new territories. Music gets conceptualised and finds new forms when contemporary artists and music professionals join forces.

There is a clinic at the Music Centre in Helsinki where anything up to a dozen physicians and other health care professionals may be found treating one patient. Multi-discipline collaboration is leveraged to address the most difficult ailments at the Musicians’ Clinic.