Works
Chamber music
The Seasons Remembered (2024)
violin and piano
7'30''
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
I composed The Seasons Remembered for the XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and it is an offshoot of the opening movement Young Love (Spring-winter) of my Clarinet Quintet The Seasons of Love. The seasons were different in the north, where I lived as a child: the bitterly cold mid-winter weeks and the cool summers are deeply engraved on my body memory, and the new seasons brought by climate change feel unfamiliar. The Seasons Remembered is music of flowing emotions and memories, of flashbacks to the past and of torrents cascading into an unknown future.
Premiere: May 23–25, 2025
XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition
Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
July 1, 2026
Hanko Soi 2026
Villa Tellina, Hanko, Finland
Knuut Nissinen, violin and Simon Lane, piano
July 2, 2026
Hanko Town Hall, Banquet Hall, Hanko, Finland
Knuut Nissinen, violin and Simon Lane, piano
July 21, 2026 – UK premiere
Aberystwyth MusicFest
Aberystwyth Arts Center, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
Knuut Nissinen, violin and Simon Lane, piano