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Autumn Updates and Progress Report on a New Composition for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concert Hall Organ at the Helsinki Music Centre
Olli Virtaperko’s new orchestral composition is set for its premiere in Autumn 2024 at the Helsinki Music Centre, performed by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and organist Susanne Kujala. While the composer has been hard at work in his studio on… -
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XIV Turku Cello Competition – premiere of Sitka (for violoncello solo)
Olli Virtaperko’s new work for cello, Sitka, receives 12 premier performances by the semifinalists of the XIV Turku Cello Competition on August 29-30. Sitka is Virtaperko’s sixth work for solo cello and it was commissioned by the Musical Society of… -
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Autumn 2021: November Festival, Moiré and more
Olli Virtaperko’s autumn season 2021 highlights include the premiere of the new version of the natural horn concerto Moiré and Eija Kankaanranta performing Virtaperko’s kantele output in November Music festival. Composer himself remains busy with a solo cello commission for… -
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Premiere – Moiré for natural horn and Baroque orchestra
Olli Virtaperko’s brand new natural horn concerto Moiré (2020) will be premiered in Musica Nova Helsinki 2021 festival on the 7th of February 2021 by Tommi Hyytinen and Finnish Baroque Orchestra FiBO under Tomas Djupsjöbacka. Due to Covid-19 restrictions the… -
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Arctic Viol Book in Musica nova Helsinki
Finland’s largest contemporary music festival, Musica nova Helsinki, features a concert of Olli Virtaperko’s compositions for viols, 5 February 2019 in Kamppi chapel, Helsinki. Under the title Arctic Viol Book, the concert includes solo pieces for treble and bass… -
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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… -
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Premiere: Ambrosian Delights, the new chamber orchestra version
The new chamber orchestra version of Ambrosian Delights, Olli Virtaperko’s concerto for Knifonium synthesizer, will be premiered on October 21 by Jonte Knif (Knifonium) and Jyväskylä Sinfonia under Ville Matvejeff. Originally written for Knifonium and Baroque orchestra, the new… -
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Ambrosian Delights at Vaasa & Nordmaling ’Baroque and Beyond’
Following the succes of its premiere, Olli Virtaperko’s crossover concerto Ambrosian Delights (for Knifonium and Baroque orchestra) will travel to Vaasa, Finland and Nordmaling, Sweden with Finnish Baroque Orchestra FIBO under Ville Matvejeff. The Knifonium soloist will be the designer… -
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New work for accordeon premiered in Berlin
Veli Kujala will premiere Virtaperko’s latest work for accordeon, “Celestial Bodies” in Neuköllner Originaltöne -Festival, Berlin, Saturday 10 May. “Celestial Bodies“ continues Virtaperko’s long-term collaboration with Kujala, which, so far, has resulted four solo works, one chamber music piece and… -
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Dawkins and Kuru at Tampere Biennale
The grand opening of Tampere Biennale on 9 April will feature Tuulia Susiaho‘s video work Lummelampi with Virtaperko’s orchestral soundtrack (Kuru, 2009). On 12 April at Tampere Cathedral the organist Susanne Kujala will perform Virtapeko’s Dawkins in a…
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