SUOMEKSI
As composer

Lovessa
Lovessa (’In the Hollow’) is a 7-minute work for SATB choir set to a text by Heta Kaisto and Krista Lehtonen. The work is inspired by the idea of villages drowned by artificial lakes created with dams. It follows a journey from among the suffocated trees in the sunken village up to a bird’s perspective and finally back to the ground, where the elements meet in the crossroads of human fates. The title of the work refers to the word lovi, an underwater underworld or afterlife in the Finnish mythology.
EMO Ensemble
Pasi Hyökki, conductor
Concert and Video production - 4K Multicamera Live Recording / Broadcast / Postproduction: University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy
Video: Keijo Lahtinen
Sound: Students of the Sibelius Academy Music Technology Department: Armi Lampela, Tyko Vaskivuori, Jimi Ahola, Elias Hildén
Instructor: Matti Heinonen
Audio: Mikko Ingman
Lights: Sirje Ruohtula
Graphics: Aino Laukka, Jan Rosström, Keijo Lahtinen
Producer: Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt
Cable Bacteria
Cable Bacteria is an 18-minute work for a scientist and a four-player ensemble. The work was prepared in collaboration with biophysicist Robin Bonné as a part of the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab project. In the project, working pairs of a scientist and a composer are formed, and the composition is made to be performed together with a text about the scientist's research. Robin Bonné's research handles cable-like, electroconductive bacteria.
The work was premiered by an ensemble of players from the Swedish Radio Orchestra at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden, August 28, 2024.
Robin Bonné, speech
Karin Eriksson, violin
Johanna Sjunnesson, cello
Daniel Handsworth, bassoon
Ulrik Nilsson, percussion
Vinous
MMM
Oh Hi
Solstice
Vallilan rapsodia
Tatra Sketch
Zvířetník
Roso