Villa Hakasalmi

Trio Pietilä–Baumann–Soo brings together three distinctive and highly individual artists from the European experimental music scene: Finnish saxophonist and composer Esa Pietilä, Swiss vocalist and sound artist Franziska Baumann, and Estonian guitarist and improviser Mart Soo. Their music unfolds at the intersection of contemporary chamber music and free improvisation. Combining extended instrumental and vocal techniques, […]

Eero Savela: trumpet Seppo Kantonen: electric piano Eero Tikkanen: double bass Joonas Leppänen: drums The group performs music by trumpeter and composer Eero Savela, with compositions and the musical framework they offer for collective improvisation at the core. The clear melodies of the pieces give the listener something to hold on to, but the ensemble’s aim is to […]

The framework of my concert consists of ten bagatelles which, true to their name, are small pieces. Each of them can be performed either in an extended version with improvisation or without it. Although the word bagatelle means something trivial, insignificant, or minor, I hope that the listener, if they wish, may find impulses for […]

Guitarist, Arabic ‘ud player and composer Jussi Reijonen’s new work sayr offers an intimate, meditative counterpoint to his acclaimed 2022 large-ensemble work Three Seconds | Kolme Toista. Performed on vintage steel-string acoustic guitar and Arabic ‘ud, sayr is an improvised exploration of the small, the simple and the sparse; the rugged earthy; the gnarly unpretty; […]

Mikko Pettinen: trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet, vocals, keyboards, compositions Joakim Berghäll: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet Vesa Ojaniemi: double bass Tuomas Timonen: drums In the music of Mikko Pettinen Why Not, acoustic and electric jazz walk hand in hand, flavoured with colours drawn from world music and influences emerging from the surrounding environment. The quartet is led […]

Eero Ojanen: piano Heikki Nikula: bass clarinet Antti Lötjönen: double bass Trio Nueva Finland was founded in 1993 by Paroni Paakkunainen, Eero Ojanen, and Teppo Hauta-aho. They had played together in various contexts since the early 1960s. The trio’s aim was to maintain the art of free improvisation within Finnish jazz. The foundation of the […]