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Virtaperko in Tampere Biennale: Music for ”Old Europe” & Skärgården
The Guards Band (Kaartin soittokunta) will perform the new 2022 revision of Virtaperko’s wind orchestra work Music For ”Old Europe” in Tampere Biennale, 6 April 2022. The festival also features trio Superpluck playing Virtaperko’s virtuosic Skärgården. Olli Virtaperko’s Music for … -
New web page launched
The revised Olli Virtaperko web page www.virtaperko.fi has been launched with a brand new design. The site introduces several new features and improvements, such as: – advanced search engine for the Works page that filters search results by category, instrumentation… -
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… -
New biography by Andrew Mellor
Frank Zappa once said that a composer is ‘a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.’ Olli Virtaperko’s career so far appears to bear that phrase out, and in a…
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