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  • Sitka

    ”Sitka is my sixth work for solo cello, commissioned by The Turku Cello Competition 2022. I consider Sitka a composition of contrasts and extremes, where the fragile sonic transparency meets the world of brutal distortion and noise. The piece takes…
    January 10, 2022

  • Fantasia “Liberazione”

    Fantasia ”Liberazione” is a solo work for harpsichord in the traditional 1/4 comma meantone temperament (from Eb to G#). The piece begins as a chromatic chaconne with descending bass line, gradually starting to fall apart both rhythmically and harmonically and…
    August 7, 2018

  • La forêt et le songe

    La forêt et le songe is a short fantasy for baritone saxophone solo. Originally written for cello, the saxophone version (2017) is slightly extended and utilizes several special saxophone techniques that I got acquainted with during the compositional process of…
    August 6, 2018

  • Kipuajat

    Kipuajat is a short piece for organ of pedagogical nature. The prelude-like piece introduces some proportional nonmeasure prelude notational techniques and rapid scales within a texture that is predominantly stable by its harmonic nature. Kipuajat is an all-around organ piece,…
    August 7, 2018

  • Celestial Bodies

    Celestial Bodies continues Virtaperko’s long-term collaboration with accordionist Veli Kujala, which by 2014 had resulted four solo works and one concerto. The composer writes about the new piece: ”Celestial Bodies” combines conventional notation with the proportional and rhythmically relative notational…
    August 6, 2018

  • Särmäneula

    Särmäneula (Broadnosed Pipefish) is a musical portrait of Syngnathus typhle, the seahorse-related fish found in the coastal shallow waters of the Eastern Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. The short guitar minature was written in 2012 for Petri Kumela’s collection Small…
    August 6, 2018

  • Kuulas

    Kuulas (Serene) is a ten-minute long solo piece for cello. Written for composers’ own instrument in 2012, Kuulas provides the performer with instrumentally rewarding and idiomatic cello texture. Rich use of natural harmonics and various distortion-producing bow techniques are characteristic…
    August 6, 2018

  • Corpse reviver #2

    Corpse reviver #2 for Roland V-Accordion Fr-7xs and tape (2010) was written for the accordionist Veli Kujala to celebrate the completion of his doctoral dissertation at the Sibelius Academy. This piece is an auditive musical fantasy with an imaginary storyline…
    August 6, 2018

  • Hetki

    Hetki (Moment) is a four-minute solo piece for cello, composed in 2009 as a birthday present for the composer’s 90-year-old grandfather. Instrumentation for cello (or Baroque cello) Press quotes “Misty and tender.” – Hannu-Ilari-Lampila, Helsingin Sanomat 20 February 2010…
    August 6, 2018

  • Quattro elementi (miniature per pianoforte)

    The title of the four-movement piano miniature suite, Quattro Elementi (2008), refers to the ancient Greek philosophers’ perception of the world as being structured upon four basic elements: earth, water, air and fire. Quattro elementi connects to the tradition of…
    August 6, 2018