Category / Works / Performances
-
![]()
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… -
![]()
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… -
![]()
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… -
![]()
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… -
![]()
Two world premieres: works for Avanti! and solo harpsichord
Two world premieres by Olli Virtaperko will take place in the summer season. Fantasia ”Liberazione” for harpsichod in meantone temperament will be premiered by Marianna Henriksson on 17 June in Helsinki, and the consort song Hämäläisten jumalat will be premiered… -
![]()
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… -
![]()
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… -
![]()
Premiere: Folk Suite for Treble Viol
Jukka Rautasalo will premiere Virtaperko’s Folk Suite for Treble Viol (original Finnish title Kansanmusiikkigambaa) in Porvoo Cathedral on 17 September, 2015. Written in 2013, Folk Suite consists of five short movements that reflect Virtaperko’s recent, growing interest in the Nordic… -
![]()
New work: In nomine ‘Shivering’
Virtaperko’s new viol consort work In nomine ‘Shivering’ continues the instrumental polyphonic In nomine tradition of the English Renaissance. Like few hundred other In nomines, In nomine ‘Shivering’ is built around John Taverner’s plainchant melody from 1530, a melody that… -
![]()
Music for Yle Radio Theatre drama with Bravade Recorder Quartet
“While working on the Renaissance recorder quartet piece for Bravade I was approached to write music for the Yle Radio Theatre production Urian kirje. I choose Bravade to be the vecihle for creating the musical content for the drama, which… -
![]()
YLE “Record of the Year” nomination for 2014
Clarinetist Mikko Raasakka’s record Eliangelis – Contemporary Finnish Music for Clarinet has been selected as a one of the six candidates for Yle Broadcasting Company’s Record of the Year 2014 nomination. Containing music by Olli Virtaperko (Glass Orifice),… -
![]()
Work Completed: Multikolor
New work by Olli Virtaperko, Multikolor for baritone saxophone and a 10-piece ensemble is completed. Commissioned by TampereRaw ensemble and written for the soloist Joonatan Rautiola, the 18-minute work explores the multiphonic and timbral possibilities of the baritone saxophone. Click… -
![]()
Work on progress – Multikolor
“I’m currenly working on a piece for solo barytone saxophone and a 10-piece TampereRaw ensemble. Commissioned by TampereRaw, Multikolor will be premiered at Autumn 2015 with Joonatan Rautiola as the soloist. During the compositional process I’ve worked exceptionally intensively with… -
![]()
New videos – Ambrosian Delights & Klüftwerk
Visualisation for the full 27-minute Ambrosian Delights is now available from Finnish Baroque Orchestra at Youtube Recent additions also include a video of Klüftwerk, perfomed and provided by Antero Pellikka.… -
![]()
Latest videos
Two visualisations from Ensemble Ambrosius concert on 10 August 2010 at St. Catharine’s Church, Hamburg, Germany: GACH & Questa storia del mago non mi convince (for ensemble) and Kalkkeen meri ahtona (for accordion and kantele).… -
![]()
Latest video
Orchestral work Kuru performed by Helsinki Filharmonic orchestra at Nordic Music Days 2013, Helsinki, 17 October 2013. http://areena.yle.fi/tv/2060767…
Loading posts...
