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New CD: Romer’s Gap – three concertos by Olli Virtaperko
Romer’s Gap, a new CD release by Ondine includes three new concertos by Olli Virtaperko, recorded by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia under conductor Ville Matvejeff. Romer’s Gap is a concerto for electrically amplified cello featuring as soloist Perttu Kivilaakso, best known… -
October New Music: focus Virtaperko
Thursday 28 September – Sunday 1 October 2017, Oulu, Finland Olli Virtaperko will be the focus composer of the October New Music festival 2017 (Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu) in Oulu, Northern Ostrabothnia, Finland. The 13th edition of October New… -
Romer’s Gap nominated for The Teosto Prize
Olli Virtaperko’s concerto for amplified cello and orchestra, Romer’s Gap, has been selecteed as one of the six nominees for The Teosto Prize 2017. Lead by violinist Pekka Kuusisto, the jury described Romer’s Gap as such: ”A concerto pure and… -
Multikolor: full concert video
Video of Multikolor, a concerto for baritone saxophone and ensemble. Performed by Joonatan Rautiola (baritone saxophone soloist) and the TampereRaw ensemble under Tuomas Turriago. Recorded 30 October 2016 at Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland.… -
Praise for Virtaperko’s ”five-star saxophone concerto” Multikolor
Review of the premiere performance of Multikolor by critique Harri Hautala. Newspaper Aamulehti, 31 October 2016. (Translation by Juhana Rossi, original Finnish article here.) Virtaperko’s five-star saxophone concerto is beautiful modernism. A rare event occurred at the Tampere Hall… -
IN FOCUS: Romer’s Gap for amplified cello and orchestra (2016)
by Andrew Mellor Only in Finland has the cello – that instrument we think of as mellow and elegiac – found itself a firm foothold in the world of rock music. Olli Virtaperko’s new concerto for amplified cello Romer’s Gap… -
Two premieres: In nomine ‘Shivering’ & Meren päällä ohuempaa
Two ensemble works for early music instruments by Olli Virtaperko, In nomine ‘Shivering’ for viol consort a5 and Meren päällä ohuempaa (Thinner above the sea) for Renaissance recorder quartet will be premiered in May-June. In nomine ’Shivering’ (2015) continues Virtaperko’s… -
New press photos
Three new press photos by Maarit Kytöharju were shot at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art in the autumn 2015 during the exhibition NUBBEN / LARS–GUNNAR NORDSTRÖM. The composers describes his relationship with Nordström’s art as such: ”Lars-Gunnar… -
Latest addition: new work for Renaissance recorder quartet
Virtaperko’s new work Meren päällä ohuempaa (Thinner above the sea) for the Renaissance recorder quartet Bravade focuses on timbre, musical colour and their gradual evolving and changing. The composer describes the work process with Bravade as such: “I was impressed… -
Taking note: Give some get some
”Art does not just magically appear in the world as a gift of grace that comes from divine inspiration. It is created through persistent and devoted work. This work is always funded by someone who has their own expectations of…
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