Superpluck club – Lumottu metsä 

The flautist Camilla Hoitenga is the club’s guest star in August, and the programme includes several Finnish premieres of plucking instruments. 

In the discussion part of the club, composer Juha T. Koskinen will discuss his ideas on sea and nō-theatre tradition. Composer Osmo-Tapio Räihälä will also present his book ‘Miksi nykymusiikki on niin vaikeaa?’ (“Why is contemporary music so difficult?”; Atena, 2021), which won the Tieto-Finlandia award in the year of its publication. 

Programme 

• Juha T. Koskinen: Unabara
• Akira Kobayashi: Memory for harpsichord (Finnish premiere)
• Chieko Doi: Tamayura
• Kaija Saariaho: Light Still and Moving
• Rica Narimoto: Paraphrase on Matsushima II (Finnish premiere)
• Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Lumottu metsä (Finnish premiere) 

Performers 

• Camilla Hoitenga, flute and bass flute 
• Eija Kankaanranta, kantele 
• Rody van Gemert, guitar 
• Assi Karttunen, harpsichord 

Additional information: Anna Huuskonen, anna.huuskonen@uniarts.fi