BBC Proms Commission

Theme Composer

I have been featured on the Fennica Gehrman front page!

Interview in Kaleva's magazine Forum24

Lahti 12.10.2023, Virpi Räisänen, Nil Venditti, Sinfonia Lahti

Oulu 18.10.2023, Virpi Räisänen, Rumon Gamba, Oulu Sinfonia

Interview with Elle Palmu

I have been awarded a Pro Musica Säätiö grant for 2023!

The Oulu Sinfonia and Sinfonia Lahti have commissioned me to write a song cycle for Virpi Räisänen!

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Excited to announce that I'm a winner of this year's BMI Student Composer Awards!

Excited and grateful to be joining Suomen Säveltäjät ry. / Finnish Composers' Society as a new member!

Adam Mickiewicz’s Tie Pin

William Cowper's Pocket Watch

Grant to write a piece for kantele duo

Article by Jari Kallio on myself and Joel Järventausta

A review by Jari Kallio on the Lahti Symphony Orchestra's Nursery Garden Initiative Concert conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk.

Very excited to announce that I have signed with Blom Music Management!

This is a biennial competition open to outstanding composition students from the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Each institution nominates one candidate.  

Winner: Lara Poe
Very Highly Commended: Nuno da Rocha
Highly Commended: James Chan

Illuminate Season I 2020 announced!

I have been selected for Sinfonia Lahti's Nursery Garden initiative involving the Lahti Sibelius Festival.  This means I will be commissioned to write a 10 minute long orchestral piece to be performed by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in September.  I will be working with Sebastian Fagerlund on this project.  

I will be starting a PhD at King's College London with George Benjamin and Silvina Milstein.  Before starting this programme, I will be at the RCM for a one-year artist diploma course.  

I will be attending Tanglewood as a Composition Fellow this summer in 2019!

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Read 2018 Panufnik Composer Lara Poe's blog about her experience of the scheme and what it's like to compose music for the LSO!

My piece, La Rivière et la forêt, was selected for Ung Nordisk Musik 2019 in Piteå, Sweden.

La Rivière et la Forêt will be released as a single on Kudos Records.

I will be working with the Moonlight Symphony Orchestra as composer in residence!

The academy runs in parallel with the ICon Arts Sibiu Festival, with workshops led by Joshua Fineberg, and culminates in a performance on July 31st in Sibiu during the ICon Arts Festival, at Thalia State Philharmonic Hall.  This performance will also be broadcasted through internet live streaming on Enjoytv.Ro.
This year's academy focuses on a work for Fernando Mihalache (accordion) and Duo Cello Jaya (Ella Bokor and Mircea Marian).  

I will be writing a piece for the Megalopolis Saxophone Ensemble that will be premiered in Spring 2019.  

From Meet the Artist: Established in 2012 by blogger Frances Wilson (“The Cross-Eyed Pianist”), Meet the Artist is a series of interviews in which musicians, conductors and composers discuss aspects of their creative lives, including inspirations, influences, repertoire, performance, recording, significant teachers and more. The interviews offer revealing insights into the musician’s working life and each one provides advice to young or aspiring musicians.

Jennifer Haugan and I have now created a new site for our interactive project on noise pollution!  

The LSO Panufnik Scheme Reality Days for the 2018-2019 composers took place at LSO St. Luke's on 17-18 Feb. 2018.  Here is a short article from Colin Matthew's website.  

Thrilled to announce that I will be taking part in the 2018-19 LSO Panufnik Scheme, along with composers Joel Järventausta, Cassie Kinoshi, Ido Romano, George Stevenson and Alex Tay!

M Magazine's Winter 2017 feature on new members of PRS!  
Featuring me,
Sons of Raphael www.facebook.com/sonsofraphael
Rews www.facebook.com/wearerewsmusic
and Yves www.facebook.com/bandyves

Interview in Finnish magazine Rondo Classic by Elina Salin!

I participated in the Composition and Performance scheme from July 5-15 2017.  This article provides some insight into how the course works.  

Thrilled to announce that I am the 2017 BMI Student Composer Awards William Schuman Prize Winner!

Thrilled to announce that I am the winner of the winner of the American Prize in Chamber Music 2017 (student division)!