Performed by Patrik Kleemola 13.11.2021.
1.  Aio
2. Parnassius mnemosyne 
3. Nego! (Gagliarde Dolorata)

Ramento

Bushukan (仏手柑)
for Tendai-Shōmyō (声明) singer and string trio.
This work is dedicated to my dear teacher Kaija Saariaho.
Premiere: Suehiro Shoei and Ensemble Falke,
Tennō-ji (天王寺), Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2022.

Bushukan

Der Bau (2008) for guitar,
Cinq Fontaines de la Fortune (2014) for guitar & harpsichord
Rody van Gemert & Assi Karttunen, Time of Music festival (Viitasaari, Finland), 2 July 2014

Der Bau & Cinq Fontaines de la Fortune

Camilla Hoitenga, flute. Goethe-Institut, Tokyo, Japan, December 10, 2023.

in lucida umbra

Premiere: Kaustinen Chamber Music Week, Finland. January 28, 2021. Lauri Sallinen (cl), Kaija Saarikettu (vl) and Juho Pohjonen (pf).

Heart-of-Light

Quatuor Diotima, Time of Music Festival (Viitasaari, Finland) 2007

String Quartet No 1

for string quartet, kantele and speaker 
Text (in Finnish): Johanna Venho 
Kaamos Quartet
Eva Alkula, kantele
Markku Köngäs, speaker
Soinnillinen Festival, Finland, 17 June 2017
https://core.musicfinland.fi/works/sielulinnut

Sielulinnut

AsianArt Ensemble, Konzerthaus Berlin 11. September 2017
YOO Hong, Daegeum
KIKUCHI Naoko, Koto
Matthias Bauer, Kontrabass

at the mercy of (the waves)

Wayfaring Moon for Noh Voice and Flute, Ryoko Aoki and Ayako Okubo 19 January 2012

1-Lunar-Eclipse

This sound I made for the light designer Jukka Korpihete's exhibition "Dreaming of Light" at the Ozone Gallery, Tokyo (October 2011).

Shadow of Yugao

Usugôri for 17-string bass koto. Nobutaka YOSHIZAWA, Keyaki Hall, Tokyo, 24th October 2018. World premiere.

Usugori for 17-string bass koto

Lauri Sallinen, clarinet & voice
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, July 27, 2019.

DreamTransmission-2-Equality

Ensemble Hakka, cond. Takashi Tokunaga.
Soprano: Tomoko Akitsu
Hiroshima, October 27th 2019

Madame de Sade (2010), chamber opera based on Yukio Mishima's play.
Sung in Finnish (translation by Kai Nieminen).
Renée (Madame de Sade) - Essi Luttinen (mezzo-soprano)
Anne (Renée's younger sister) - Mari Palo (soprano)
Chamber ensemble conducted by Eva Ollikainen

Madame de Sade 3act excerpt

Sogni di Dante (2004)
for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello. 
ensemble recherche 2004, Takefu International Music Festival (Japan)


Sogni di Dante

Juha T. Koskinen (b.1972) is an internationally renowned composer whose extensive output ranges from chamber operas and orchestral works to electronic soundscapes. As a composer, Koskinen is interested in encounters between different cultures and eras. He has strong links with Japan, where he is a regular guest both as a composer and as a visiting professor of composition, and where his work Sogni di Dante won the composition prize at the Takefu International Music Festival in 2004.
Koskinen started to plan works for stage already before his studies at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The early chamber operas Velhosiskot (1996) and EUKKO pidättekö vainajista (1999) were commissioned and performed by Ooppera Skaala group, based in Helsinki. The monologue opera Lusia Rusintytär, composed for mezzo soprano Virpi Räisänen and performed at Helsinki Festival 2015, was preceded by the chamber opera Madame de Sade (2010), based on the play by Yukio Mishima, the first version of which was premiered at the European Academy of Music in Aix-en- Provence in 1998. Ophelia/Tiefsee for actor, viola and chamber orchestra, a collaboration with stage director-dramaturg Aleksi Barrière, was commissioned by Radio France and premiered at the Présences Festival in Paris in 2017. The work received its Finnish premiere at the Musica nova Helsinki Festival in February 2019. Another collaboration with Mr. Barrière is Earthrise for actor, singer/vocal improviser and baroque orchestra premiered at the Alminsali of the Finnish National Opera on 17 October 2024 as part of the Helsinki Early Music Festival.
Collaboration with musicians representing the traditional arts of Japan has been one of the most important features of Koskinen's activities as a composer since 2012. Several composition projects will be continued with the Noh singer Ryoko Aoki, the koto player Nobutaka Yoshizawa and the Tendai Shōmyō singer Shoei Suehiro.

JTKoskinen

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