31th March 2023  Berlin Fahrbereitschaft
Three point eight KNM Contemporaries
Theodor Flindell, violin 
Kirstin Maria Pientka, viola 
Cosima Gerhardt, violoncello

Three point eight (2020/rev.22)

Tatevik Ayazyan, violin and Ville Hautakangas, piano

Endangered was composed as a mandatory semi-final piece of the Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition international series. One of the starting points of the composition was Hannikainen´s Sick Bird op. 14 no 10 for piano (arranged for violin and piano by his brother Arvo Hannikainen), and its vulnerable, bird-like motif and the subsequent downward gesture. In addition, the work freely uses some sounds of birds classified as critically endangered in Finland.

Recorded September 16, 2023 at the Tampere Hall by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.

Endangered

Anna Angervo, violin, Tatevik Ayazyan, violin, Heili Hannikainen, viola, Maija Juuti, cello and Ville Hautakangas, piano

Strata was commissioned by the Korsholm Music Festival 2022, celebrating its 40th anniversary. The festival theme, trees and forests, gave rise to a work whose shape in my imagination reflects the arch of life, from tiny plant to ancient tree.

Recorded September 16, 2023 at the Tampere Hall by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.

Kerrostumat -Strata

CHANGEnsemble, Mikko Perkola bass viol & Jutta Seppinen conductor

Instrumentation: gamba solo, fl, cl, ssax, pno, 2vln, vla, vlc, db

According to some reports merisirri (The purple sandpiper) is assumed to be the first bird in Finland to die out of extinction because of the climate change. Merisirri nests only in shrubbery hilltops, habitats which are vanishing as forests cover the mountains.

Mikko Perkola is an inspiring and multitasking soloist who together with chamber ensemble articulates merisirri´s agony and cry for help, but also the flashes of hope. Texts used in Sirri, interpreting the subject, are from an article "It´s Not Climate Change - It´s Everything Change" by Margaret Atwood from 2015 and a novel "The Leopard" by Giuseppe di Lampedusa from 1958.

Recorded September 16, 2023 at the Tampere Hall by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.

Sirri - Sandpiper

Recording from the F.p. by Kamus Quartet 29th July 2023 Our Festival
Terhi Paldanius, 1.violin, Jukka Untamala, 2.violin, Jussi Tuhkanen, viola and Petja Kainulainen, cello

The starting points for this quartet were shaped by the idea of the fragile and beautiful earth and its accelerating rotation. Just over a year ago was the shortest day ever measured. Climate change is thought to be one of the reasons. In addition, the characters of the work were affected by the utopian, distant, too big and abstract things that now concern us not only in the light of updated knowledge and research, but also as the earth is changing faster and closer to the incomprehensible than ever before.

The carbon footprint of the string quartet ...and we are rotating with it was calculated and climate compensated. According to the commissioner Meidän Festivaali, the case is the first in the world.

Meidän Festivaali

...and we are rotating with it

Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Mirka Viitala, piano

A song cycle for soprano and piano composed to Suvi Nuotio's current poems about how our seasons are changing, transforming and remaining for future generations.

Recorded by The Finnish Broadcast Company 3rd of August 2024 Musequal Festival Janakkala.

More information about the song cycle https://www.minnaleinonen.com/l/aika-avaruutta2/

Tähtiä kuin hiekkaa/Stars like Sand from song cycle Aika-avaruutta

Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Mirka Viitala, piano

A song cycle for soprano and piano composed to Suvi Nuotio's current poems about how our seasons are changing, transforming and remaining for future generations.

Recorded August 3, 2024 at the MusEqual Festival Janakkala by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE.

Maailmanvaloa/Light of the World from the song cycle Aika-avaruutta

Kuu jota ei ole/Moon that doesn't exist from song cycle Aika-avaruutta

Meeri Pulakka, soprano

One movement from a song cycle for soprano and piano composed to Suvi Nuotio's current poems about how our seasons are changing, transforming and remaining for future generations. Each movement of the cycle can be performed separately and in any order.

Live recording of the concert by the Finnish Broadcast radio
3rd of August 2024 Musequal Festival F.p.

Jo nyt, jo nyt?/Already, already now? From song cycle Aika-avaruutta

Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Mirka Viitala, piano

Poems by Suvi Nuotio

Live recording of the concert by the Finnish Broadcast radio 3rd of August 2024 Musequal Festival F.p.
Koulukeskus Välkky, Turenki

The song cycle contains five parts: Kevätkesän avaruus/Space of Spring-summer (2018), Tähtiä kuin hiekkaa/Stars like Sand (2024), Kuu, jota ei ole/Moon that doesn't exist (2024) Maailmanvaloa/Light of the World (2024) and Jo nyt, jo nyt?/Already, already now? (2024)

...and we are rotating with it

Minna Leinonen

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