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NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 2/2018 NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN Focus on Kimmo Hakola & Rolf Martinsson NEWS Rautavaara’s Albert Schnelzer All-Night Vigil Albert Schnelzer News Th e Helsinki Cham- A lot is going on for Albert Schnelzer right ber Choir will be sing- now. BIS Records has just released the portrait Lundqvist Mats Photo: ing Einojuhani Rau- CD Tales from Suburbia , 13 July will see the tavaara’s All-Night Vigil premiere of his opera Norrmalmstorgsdramat several times this sum- (Th e Stockholm Syndrome) at Vattnäs Konsertla- mer: at the Musiq’3 festival in Brussels on 29– da, and during the 2018/2019 season he will be 30 June, the Organ and Aria festival in Finland composer-in-residence with the Västerås Sinfo- on 5 July, the Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki on nietta. Commissioned by the Swedish RSO, his 16 August and Järvenpää Church on 21 August. Piano Concerto No. 1 composed for American Th e soloists are Niall Chorell, tenor and Tuuk- pianist Conrad Tao, will have its premiere on 14 ka Haapaniemi, bass. Th e choir is also making a March 2019. On 11 April Ilya Gringolts will be new recording of the work. Rautavaara’s popular soloist with the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra in concert version of the Orthodox Vigil has found the fi rst performance of Schnelzer´s Violin Con- its way into the repertoire of professional choirs certo No. 2 – Nocturnal Songs. Th e concerto is the world over. jointly commissioned by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Jönköping Sinfonietta. Tommie Haglund Festivals Two big festivals will be devoted to Tommie Haglund’s music during the 2018/2019 sea- Eero Sipilä centenary son. Haglund´s home town, Halmstad, is A hundred years have this year passed since the organizing a festival on 18-21 October with Edvall Elinor Photo: birth of Eero Sipilä (1918-1972), and music the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, vio- by him can be heard at a concert of his works linist Ilya Kaler, cellist Jacob Kullberg et al. in Helsinki on 28 October. Sipilä was an active Th e conductor and artistic leader is Joachim composer, teacher, organist and choir leader Gustafsson. Haglund will also be festival whose core output consisted of choral, organ composer with the Royal Stockholm Phil- and chamber music. Works by him are available harmonic at the Stockholm Concert Hall at the Fennica Gehr man web shop. Composer Weekend on 28-31 March 2019. Aho concerto boom continues Soloists include soprano Miah Persson, Gabriella Gullin Kalevi Aho keeps violinist Ilya Gringolts and cellist Narek Gabriella Gullin is in the limelight as one of the getting orders for Hakhnazaryan. During the two festivals we composers being presented by the Mikaeli Cham- can listen to the violin concerto Hymns to the concertos. He has ber Choir and Anders Eby in the fi lm project Romain Etienne Photo: fi n i s h e d a Triple Night, the cello concerto Flaminis Aura, the #swedishchoralmusic with her piece Ty s t ä r d e t Concerto for Vio- string orchestral piece Serenata per Diotima, rum to a text by Pär Lagerkvist. She has had lin, Cello and Pia- and La Rosa Profunda for soprano and or- several choral works published by Gehrmans as no to be premiered chestra. Moreover, Tommie Haglund´s Sym- well as her Elegic Rhapsody for oboe and string or- by the Storioni phony No. 1 will have its premiere during the chestra. Two chamber pieces are now being added Trio and the An- festival in Stockholm, which will be rounded to the catalogue, Les Ombres dans l´eau for viola twerp SO in May off with a chamber music concert. and piano and Sonata for Flute and Piano. 2019, and is at present compos- Hilma af Klint – chamber opera ing a Concerto for NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS 2/2018 Benjamin Staern is writing a chamber opera for Guitar and Cham- NEWSLETTER FROM GEHRMANS MUSIKFÖRLAG & FENNICA GEHRMAN two singers, piano trio and electronics about the ber Orchestra also Kalevi Aho Sound samples , video clips artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), a pioneer in for a premiere and other material are available at abstract painting who did not became known un- in May 2019 by Ismo Eskelinen and the Lap- www.gehrmans.se/highlights til long after her death, after an exhibition in Los land Chamber Orchestra. Also planned for Angeles in 1986. Th e opera will have its premiere next year is a Concerto for Bass Clarinet for at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in the spring of Mikko Raasakka. One for two bassoons and Cover photos: Rolf Martinsson (Louise Martinsson), 2019, but already now, in July, a short trailer can Kimmo Hakola (Kaapo Hakola) orchestra has further been commissioned on Editors: Henna Salmela and Kristina Fryklöf be heard during the Halmstad Opera and Vocal the initiative of bassoonist Bram van Sambeek. Translations: Susan Sinisalo and Robert Carroll Festival, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum in Aho’s Sieidi, for percussion, has become one Design: Tenhelp Oy/Tenho Järvinen New York in connection with the Hilma af Klint of the most performed Finnish concertos. It has ISSN 2000-2742 (Print), ISSN 2000-2750 (Online) Printed in Sweden by TMG Sthlm, Bromma 2018 Exhibition in October. Th e project was initiated already been played nearly 50 times across the by the singers Mette and Fredrik af Klint, and the world, with soloists Colin Currie, Martin Gru- libretto is being written in English by Mira Bartov. binger and Alexej Gerassimez. HIGHLIGHTS 2/2018 Agreement with Tuomas Turriago PREMIERES Fennica Gehrman has signed a publishing agreement with Tuomas Turriago that includes Per Aspera for May–August 2018 Photo: Nea Ilmevalta Photo: chamber ensemble and the Concerto for Chamber PAAVO HEININEN Ensemble premiered in Tampere early in 2018 Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 134/2 and 3 (See: Reviews). Th e agreement also covers some in- Ilosoitto for solo violin strumental works. Turriago has an ambitious project Kaija Saarikettu, violin, Juhani Lagerspetz, piano 4.5. Helsinki, Finland aiming to compose a sonata for every instrument. Sonata for Piccolo and Th e most recent ones are for alto saxophone, to be Piano Op. 116 Hanna Kinnunen, piccolo, Emil Holmström, piano premiered at the Gap international saxophone festi- Sonata for Contrabassoon and Piano Op. 138 val in July and for fl ute, to be heard for the fi rst time Arvid Larsson, contrabassoon, Jouko Laivuori, piano in Helsinki in November. Read more about Turriago Sonata for Bassoon and Piano Op. 122 and his music on the Fennica Gehrman website. Jaakko Luoma, bassoon, Ilmo Ranta, piano Tuomas Turriago Sonata for English Horn and Piano Op. 137 Paula Malmivaara, English horn, Jansen plays Lotta Wennäkoski’s Flounce: Jouko Laivuori, piano Janine 5.5. Helsinki, Finland Eliasson Jansen 15 performances FREDRIK HÖGBERG Janine Jansen will Lotta Wennäkoski’s Flounce was a BBC com- Baboon Concerto Photo: Harald Hoff mann Hoff Harald Photo: Gothenburg SO/Tung-Chieh Chuang, once again perform mission for the last night of the Proms in September sol. Sebastian Stevensson, bassoon Anders Eliasson’s 2017. It has since been heard in Helsinki, Tampere 9.5. Gothenburg, Sweden violin concerto and Gothenburg, and is down for no fewer than 12 KARIN REHNQVIST Songs from the North Einsame Fahrt from more performances. In the autumn season, Hannu Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus/Rebecca Petra 2010. Th ere will be Lintu will conduct it with the Finnish RSO at the Naomi Seeman two performances Turku Festival and give it its US premiere with the 11.5. Berkeley, USA with the Gothen- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Flounce is also fi xed MIKKO HEINIÖ Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia burg Symphony on for the opening concert of the Royal Scottish Na- Concertante for Percussion and Orchestra) 29 and 30 November and another two with the Ton- tional Orchestra’s season, with Th omas Søndergård Turku PO/Anja Bihlmaier halle-Orchester Zürich on 15 and 16 December, all conducting, and for concerts by the Swedish Radio 18.5. Turku, Finland under the baton of Daniel Blendulf. Symphony and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Th e SVENDAVID SANDSTRÖM Helsinki Philharmonic under Susanna Mälkki will Sångens hus/The House of Song for choir and orchestra Minifi ddlers be taking it to the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Amster- Falun Conservatory of Music/Dalasinfoniettan/ Géza dam Concertgebouw and elsewhere during its Euro- Paul Mägi go to China Szilvay 2.6. Falun, Sweden Photo: Jari Eskola Photo: pean tour in April 2019. Th e Central Con- KALEVI AHO Berliner Bagatelle servatory of Music Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin in Beijing has signed Steampunk Blizzard Solo X for horn an agreement with Annu Salminen Gehrmans is pub- 29.6. Musica Kalevi Aho Festival, Forssa, Finland Minifi ddlers on the lishing Daniel Piano Sonata No. 2 launching of the Co- Sonja Fräki Nelson’s 7-minute Nelson Ella Photo: 1.8. Mänttä Music Festival, Finland lourstrings teaching hit piece Steam- Solo XIII for trombone method in China. punk Blizzard. It Rocco Rescigno August 2018 Risuonanze Festival, Italy Minifi ddlers is a was written on distance education commission from ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY/ ARR: ROLF MARTINSSON solution in violin Orchestre Nation- Sechs Walzergesänge studies developed al d´ile de France MythenEnsembleOrchestral/Graziella Contratto, sol. Lisa Larsson, soprano by Caprice Oy. Th e and the conductor 30.6. Festival Musiksommer am Zürichsee, Switzerland partnership became Enrique Mazzola, ESA PIETILÄ operative at the end who premiered it The Wind Wants 5parts Wind Quintet of April and included workshops given by Géza Szil- in Philharmonie 7.7. Helsinki Chamber Music Festival, Finland vay in Beijing and Huangqiao. More information is de Paris last year.