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  • Aarre

    “Composing Aarre was one of the most challenging tasks of my career, but also one of the most inspiring and rewarding. I spent two years working on the piece, with the biggest challenge being how to create the organ an…
    January 29, 2025

  • Usvapatsas

    by Matthew Whittall Composer Olli Virtaperko describes finding a title for his new work as a labored process, arrived at long after the completion of the music, and then almost by chance, spied on the spine of a book. But…
    July 10, 2018

  • Kuru

    Considered as Virtaperko’s breakthrough piece, Kuru (2009) has received praise for its imaginative orchestration, its sensitive use of color and its compositional craftsmanship. Kuru is characterized by a rich use of the natural harmonics of the strings, which gives the…
    July 10, 2018

  • Music for “Old Europe”

    Music for “Old Europe” was commissioned by the Klangspuren Schwaz Festival and premiered in September 2003 in Schwaz by Windkraft Tirol and Kasper de Roo. The work is scored for a 24-piece wind orchestra, supplied with a glockenspiel. The compositional…
    July 10, 2018

  • Den stora trädgården

    In 2004 the Dutch organization, Yo!, launched a European-wide composition competition to find a contemporary European Anthem. Den stora trädgården (The Great Garden), a short orchestral tone poem for symphony orchestra and mixed choir, was one of the three joint…
    July 10, 2018