Timo Kittilä (*1984, Tampere, Finland) has graduated in December 2016 from his composition studies at Tampere University of Applied Sciences where he was taught by Hannu Pohjannoro, Jyrki Linjama and Jovanka Trbojevic. In masterclasses he has been taught by Kaija Saariaho, Jukka Tiensuu and Tomi Räisänen. His works have been performed in Finland and abroad by numerous musicians including the contemporary music ensembles Tampering Ensemble and TampereRaw and the organists Esa Toivola and Jan Lehtola. Timo has been part of the executive committee of the contemporary music association Tampering ry since the association was established in year 2013 and has participated in organizing the Tampering Festival of years 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022.

Recent performances of Timo’s works include his work Chants for chamber ensemble performed at the Tampering Festival 2022 in Tampere, Finland, August 2022.

As a composer, Timo is inspired by the interplay of the conscious and the unconscious in music. His musical language and composing method have evolved from using the broader form of a work as a starting point and working towards the details to a more detail-oriented perspective and the emphasis of contrapuntal motion in his latest works.

new album "Delicious" released on 16 May. New Amsterdam records.

Alex (1990),"A riotous overabundance of love and rage..an extraordinary experience” The Wire Magazine, is an award-winning composer & improvising-trombonist based in the UK. His Music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). "highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else” BBC Magazine Ivor Novello British Composer Awards.

Alex has been awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize, and Ivor Novello Composer He was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award for 2022 and was elected to the 9th International Composition Seminar and awarded a commission ILOLLI-POP for Improviser and Ensemble which he played with Ensemble Modern. He has been awarded by the London Sinfonietta’s Writing the Future commission CANDYFOLK- SPACE-DRUM  and has won the RPS Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, DANKWORTH JAZZ prize for composition BYE and was made a London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composer. Alex played and recorded his concerto OD ODY PINk’d for Jazz Musician and Royal National Scottish Orchestra (RSNO). He was a Leverhume Art Scholar with the London Philharmonic Orchestra 2016-2017: NOW WE ARE DUH-DUR and has been awarded the Harriet Cohen Memorial Music Award for his compositions. His piece SPAKE represented the UK in the Orchestral section of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM). He is a commissioned contributor to John Zorn’s Arcana X 2021. "Paxton is a system-crasher of genre, who merges jamming video game soundtracks, musical overtures, virtuoso chamber music and jazz improv into an unmistakable style...highly complex, sophisticated and extremely entertaining, virtuoso ad absurdum" Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik

His albums to date as a composer: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE and iLOLLI-POP released to critical acclaim on Birmingham Record Company/ NMC label and nonclassical. Listen Pony Label (TELLSONG), Indigne de nous on Everest Records and leading Spotify playlists. HAPPY MUSIC for ORCHESTRA released on Delphian Label in  April 2023. “This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”New York Times

His music has been played/recorded/ commissioned by leading orchestras and ensembles including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), Philharmonia Orchestra, AskSchöenberg, Riot Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Wigmore hall, Explore Ensemble, Klammer Klang, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), National Youth Orchestra (BBC proms 2021), Making Music (UK), Ensemble x.y, x.y Song, Hyper Duo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), National Youth Jazz Orchestra (UK) NYJO, Listen-Pony, Aldeburgh Festival, Psappha Ensemble, Orion Symphony Orchestra OSO, Helios Collective, Chaos Collective Orchestra, Mirrors of Hall Big Band, Dr. K Sextet, 5KBrass Quintet, RAM Philharmonic and RCM Philharmonic and soloists Zubin Kanger, Tabea Debus, Beibei Wang, Patrick Terry, David Zucchi. “This is what an orchestra can be like in the 21st century: an ensemble that speaks with one voice yet also gives voice to each of its members” The Times

He has written six operas including NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes) FOR the LOVE of THORNSTIEN SHIVER hosted by English National Opera and Helios Collective, BEL and the DRAGON as part of the Tête à Tête opera festival, the EQUIVOCAL HARRIET BOWDLER at Second Movement Opera and WOOLF MUSIC at the Forge in Camden and RAVEN’s CHILD for Jacob Colier and Orchestra.
“Operatic Game Boy music played by a virtuosic motley crew that’s inexplicably been hired to provide live jingles for a primetime TV show sometime in the recent past that never quite was” Point of departure

As an improvising and jazz trombonist Alex has played as a soloist with Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta,  Riot Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), & ensemble x.y. He is founder of Dreammusics ensemble and performs regularly with pioneering improvisers (eg: Charlotte Keeffe, Steve Noble). “meticulously scored…seems to change with every bar, enfolding bite-size pieces of classic minimalism, brass brand tradition, electronic noise, & video game plasticity..intensely virtuosic and giddily joyful. electronically slathered trombone…Paxton is a monster improviser …connects his garrulous attack to the most extroverted playing of George Lewis & Roswell Rudd..." Bandcamp Daily Best Contemporary Classical.

Extensively, Alex writes art-music for musicians in community settings including, innovative ways of writing for young instrumentalists & singers in a post-Roald Dahl world of new-music.  eg: NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes), Fly Like a Kitchen, Muffin, Pudding Tummy and The Sound of Magic. He is professorial composition staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and has worked as lead-composition tutor (and workshop leader) on the National Youth Orchestra GB, he has taught/ lectured at composition and improvisation at conservatories including, RAM, GSMD & RCM (and multiple universities in the UK). “one of the most exceptional voices from a new generation of UK talent” The Philharmonia Orchestra

Alex studied as a scholar at Royal Academy of Music (BMushons1stclass)and LRAM (Distinction) and the Royal College of Music (MComp Distinction).“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.” Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023

Alex is an endorsee solo artist with Micheal Rath Trombones since 2023 (R12 nickel bell & tuning slide).

Vierustoveri: Experimental/ Stepper Dub/Trip Hop/ rap/ Rhythm music from Finland.
 Vierustoveri (previously  known as Korpivibes) is/has been co-operating with many artists, producers and bands such as Mad & Dread, Temppeli, Tree of Dub , LX-beats/Rekami, Joonas Hauveli & Ras Kontti.

Sessions/gigs: 
3.9.2022 Metsä dub (@Turku forest) alonside Temppeli, Sul, Ites Fyah, DrEd Lion, Dub & Mattas 
13.8.2022 Ö-mappi (@Helsinki UG)
Kaustinen folk music festival: Vierustoveri ja Vastaantulijat -band gigs
23.2.2019 Apupyörä (@Helsinki UG) -support event
1.9.2018 Sini-Maria Hepsantuusa goes Local -art exhibition opening
18.8.2018 Greengrass music afterparty @ Torvi, Lahti w/ Rinneradio & Kryptine
Ecstatic Dance 10.3.2018 @Jkl w/Dj Odjom, Se Misha and more
Olipa Kerran Aarrevaihto w/ Waldemar Aumala @Kirjakahvila, TKU 27.2.2018
LUMO-tanssit w/dj Denzo Dee @Ong Namo, Tampere 2.12.2017
Sähköklubi #10 18.8.2017 @Vakiopaine
Summertime Sound System Tour 29.7.2017 @Lounaispuisto (with DBU sound)
Kosmos Festival 2017! (featuring on Papa Chilly`s set with Jonesy)
28.4.2017 Jalokivi Dub w/Bother Brothers, Temppeli Sound, Mad & Dread -Jkl Deep Bass Union soundsystem session @Ilokivi, Jyväskylä, Finland
18.11.2016 Live & Direct w/Fleck, Blexi, Dj Opa, Dj Papa Chilly & Jonesy @Torvi, Lahti
9.9. Reggae, Dub & World beat @ Uusiotuote JKL -DBU Sound system session
Ecstatic Dance (JKL) 2.7 @Tanhusali Lutakko with sound system
Kosmos Festival 2016 (featuring on Papa Chilly`s set)
Yläkaupungin Yö 2016 (TP:n festivaali)@Jyväskylä w/Kaamea Haahka
Mitä? Musaa & Masalaa 2016 @Jyväskylä w/Uittosuma, Petrus Piironen & Tuulikki Tee
Vedestä nousee hippi 2015 @Jyväskylä
Uunolan Ukotus 2015 @Vihti ug
Ämyrock 2015 @Salamari soundsystem`s raunio stage, Hämeenlinna
Junglefest @Hehku, Lohja
Wibes Festival @ Mäntyharju (20-21.6.2014)
Dub Therapy part3 (sound system session)
Dub Therapy part2 (sound system session)
Dubnamite @Pueblo, Helsinki
Dub Therapy part1 (sound system session)

The first mostly improvised EP "Dubadour" (free download): https://korpivibes.bandcamp.com/album/dubadour contains a combination of finnish folk music improvisation and digital dub in a meditative style!

Blessings!

Marloes creates layered atmospheric soundscapes with a pop twist. She uses her self-built instruments in experimental compositions with graphic scores, layered vocals, occasional beats and field recordings.

She performs both under her own name and collaborates with Alex van Giersbergen in their audiovisual project ALOES. Originally from the Netherlands, she currently lives and works in Helsinki (FI).

Anna Berg is a composer from Kolbotn, Norway, based in Innlandet/Oslo/Paris.

Berg composes chamber music for a wide range of ensembles, from large ensembles and string orchestras to quartets and duo- and solo works. In addition she has a passion for new music for choir and she also composes electroacoustic works and music for film. Her music has been performed at concerts and festivals in the Nordic countries, among them at Ultima and Ung Nordisk Musikk.

Matilda Seppälä (b. 1993) is a Finnish composer, whose musical education started at the age of six with violin performance. Seppälä started her composition studies 2011 with Jouni Kaipainen in Tampere and afterwards continued studying one year in Riga, Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Sibelius Academy and Universität der Künste Berlin. Seppälä has developed her musical skills through various productions as composer, musician and producer and in master courses with e.g. Salvatore Sciarrino,  Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, Param Vir, Milosz Bembinow and Jukka Tiensuu. 
 
 
Matilda Seppälä’s music has been performed among others by Caprico orchestra, Avanti!, TampereRaw, NYKY Ensemble, Tampering Ensemble, symphony orchestra FIAM ja Helsinki Chamber Choir. Her works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and choir have been succesfull in competitions such as international ”in modo di Lutoslawski”-competition 2014, Peteris Vasks –competition in Riga 2015 and International Eunojuhani Rautavaara choir composition competition in 2016.

Kukkuu (music video)
https://vimeo.com/134389538

Full album "Draama-Helmin erehdys"
https://draama-helmi.bandcamp.com/releases

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