My written doctoral dissertation on “The Noise-Pitch Continuum in Timbral Music” at HAMU, Prague is finished. It studies works of timbre-based repertoire with a novel analytical method for 288 pages in five chapters. As of today (June 28, 2022), the dissertation is awaiting approval and the dissertation event will take place in Prague on September 13, 2022.
This Thursday September 23, 2021 I will give a lecture on the “Aikamme musiikin luentosarja” lecture series, an established institution in Helsinki, about my recent ideas and practices in composition: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Community/Aikamme-musiikin-luentosarja-276390072416977 .
My lecture will include viewings of performances and talk in Finnish, and probably a Facebook livestream possibility for the wider audience will be provided.
My piece into these wordless houses (2019) for sextet is now available online and for sale at https://www.stradivarius.it/scheda.php?ID=801157037181200.
It was recorded in December 2020 by Ensemble U in Tallinn under my supervision and is my first work to be studio recorded and published.
In anticipation of an exceptionally active season with several premieres, from solo to chamber to orchestral music during October-November, the entire website was transferred to this hopefully more reachable .com domain in early September. After serving for about five years, the older copy of the website in the .co.nf domain is discontinued.
After the initial selection round at the start of 2019 and after four concerts played live and broadcast in four European cities on April 28th 2019, my composition Chosen families (2019) was selected as one of the four winners of the Discovering Young Composers of Europe project. Winning compositions were chosen by European-wide audience voting. The victory includes a new commissioned ensemble piece for concerts and recording in 2020.
Results on the DYCE website