Tuomas Turriago

"Joonatan Rautiola’s and Marko Hilpo’s duo plays with enjoyable precision and sensitivity. The lyrical qualities of the saxophone come to the fore."

"Turriago plays energetically, and his booklet texts are disarmingly straightforward. [- -] The newest works – Da Lontano…, Somber, and the virtuoso etude Jitters – are the strongest ones, making one look forward to more."

The most prolific and most popular opera librettist in Finland today is a writer, poet and musician from Peru: Maritza Núñez. The opera Frida y Diego by Kalevi Aho, commissioned by the Sibelius Academy, is to be premiered at the Helsinki Musiikkitalo in October 2014.