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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This April, Tampere will once again showcase the newest and most intriguing things in Finnish contemporary classical music. This year, the five-day festival is focusing on works that combine music with visual elements. There will be multimedia works with sound…