World premières and international guests

Friday in Time of Music started with Ian Pace’s lecture on Michael Finnissy’s music, titled ”on the History of Photography in Sound”. In the afternoon Spanish SMASH ensemble held its first concert in the high school. The repertoire of the concert included pieces by Michael Finnissy along with Spanish composers, and even by Johan Tallgren. In the evening concert “Music Without Talk / Of Talk” the world première of Michael Finnissy’s “Viitasaari” was heard, creating atmospheres from rippling water to the melancholia of country side. The concert was preceded with “Meet the Composer”-event introducing Dieter Mack, whose piece “Kammermusik III” was also heard in the school centre’s concert. The late night concert of ”Sketches of Art in Artists” at the theatre with Frio was a versatile conversation between a flute, a bass clarinet, a saxophone and a ocarina.

On Saturday at the school centre flutist Hanna Kinnunen and pianist Emil Holmström held the concert titled “Fili”, which was all in all a very harmoniuous entity. The themes of the concert moved from spiritual experiences to historical recollections, matched with electronical tones. Also, the concert included a world première of Markku Klamis piece “aura”, commissioned by the Ears Open Society.

In the second concert of SMASH ensemble, the musicians performed pieces composed mainly by Spanish composers, through which they could bring their fine professional skills to display. The body of evenings programme was built around Michael Finnissy, whose thoughts became heard with words in “Meet the Composer”-event and with music in the evening’s concert of Zagros and Nils Schweckendiek. In the late evening, Miekkaniemi became an ambient and progressive meeting point of related instruments Finnish zither and koto, as Eva Alkula and Tomoya Nakai held a duo-concert.