December 31, 2024
Highlights of 2024
In 2024 I…
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had the busiest year so far with 25 pieces performed of which 5 were premieres.
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was in residence at INA GRM-studios at Radio France 26.4.-5.5 composing the electronics part for the song cycle AILES.
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had a dream come true moment, with Johanna Vargas and Lucia Peralta when the song cycle AILES had its premiere in the radio program Crèation Mondiale
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had a wonderful Finnish premiere of Mobiles with Lappeenranta City Orchestra, cond. Jan Söderblom
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was in residence at Studio Nadar 15.-27.10. creating a new work in collaboration with flutist Katrien Gaelens, gave a lecture for the composition class of the Royal Concervatoire in Antwerp.
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was nominated for Mobiles as the best composer in the category of smaller scale works for the Finnish Publishers Prize.
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had about 18 minutes of fame premiering in the universe everyth ng is a circle with the clarinetist Heather Roche at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2024.
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am very happy to have received a three-year artistic grant for composing from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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have been busy composing a new organ concerto, some chamber music and preparing a new solo piece and a piece for organ, electronics and lights both to be premiered in Musica nova 2025 festival by Jan Lehtola at the Helsinki Music Center.
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added another year as a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy, department of Music and Technology