Dress rehearsal done! The Finnish premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s fabulous new cello concerto Before we fall (2024) with Johannes Moser and Helsinki Phil under Jukka-Pekka Saraste ahead tonight. 🔥 #adventuresinmusic

Anna Thorvaldsdóttir discusses her new cello concerto Before we fall (2024) for Johannes Moser ahead of its 🇫🇮 premiere with Helsinki Phil. Also, a word or two about her symphony-in-progress. #adventuresinmusic

Pierre Boulez left us ten years ago. Pictured, Boulez’s grave in Baden-Baden in June 2016 still featuring a temp cross instead of a tombeau proper. NB the handwritten amendment to the text. #adventuresinmusic

Two splendid Big Sur pieces to keep me warm on a wintry Sunday here in Finland. #adventuresinmusic

Back at it! Contrary to the custom nowadays, I much rather have my Marche au Supplice without the opening repeat - purely in terms of dramaturgy. This is a one-way ticket, and there’s no turning back. #adventuresinmusic

If I was to pick just one cherished musical memory from 2025, it would certainly be this unbelievable, life-affirming John Adams Harmonielehre with Berlin Phil and Sir Simon Rattle on 18 October at the Philharmonie. #adventuresinmusic

As the year draws to its close, a throwback to one of the most important new music concerts of 2025, TampereRaw’s sounding portrait of Maija Hynninen, featuring the world premiere of her new piano concerto, Pathways (2024-25) for Anna Kuvaja, conducted by Maria Itkonen. #adventuresinmusic

Boxing Day album classic, Ensemble Modern and Synergy Vocals perform Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76) with members of Steve Reich and Musicians on RCA Red Seal (1997 studio recording). #adventuresinmusic

Very important question to all Mahlerians: How do you prefer your Das klagende Lied? a) with Waldmärchen (as in 1880) b) without Waldmärchen (as in 1898) #adventuresinmusic

Things are getting nicely Christmassy around here. 💫🎄✨ Happy Holidays good people all 🌟

Reporting from Munich, where Emanuel Ax, the BRSO and Esa-Pekka Salonen served Anders Hillborg’s The MAX Concerto (2023) with an outing of dreams, bookended by a pristine Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17/1919) and a staggering Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (1830) #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the 🇫🇮 premieres of Ellen Reid Body Cosmic (2024) and Anders Hillborg Eleven Gates (2005-06) with Pekka Kuusisto conducting the Helsinki Phil, paired with Benjamin Britten Les Illuminations (1939) and Laura Netzel Fantaisie (1903) feat. soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to Tampere Philharmonic 95th anniversary concert conducted by Matthew Halls and featuring the 🇫🇮 premiere of Jasdeep Singh Degun’s sitar concerto Arya (2019-20) as its centerpiece. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to one of my all-time favorite recitals, featuring Sean Shibe on acoustic and electric guitar at Verkatehdas (🇫🇮) performing Thomas Adès, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Sasha Scott, Frank Martin and J.S. Bach - plus an Oliver Messiaen encore. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the exquisite world premiere of Matthew Whittall’s terrific 70-minute Robert Macfarlane setting ”The World Tree” (2025) by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and Nils Schweckendiek at Temppeliaukio Church earlier this week. #adventuresinmusic

Looking back at the Hallé John Adams festival and its feat of chamber music at RNCM feat. Chamber Symhony (1992) under by Euan Shields, Hallelujah Junction (1998) w. Eliza McCarthy & James McVinnie, plus selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances (1994) by the Emerz Collective. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the Hallé John Adams festival finale, conducted by the composer and featuring Leila Josefowicz as soloist in Scheherazade.2 (2014), followed by The Chairman Dances (1985) and concluding with the UK premiere of The Rock You Stand On (2024). #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Machester, the Hallé John Adams festival lauch with the composer conducting Slonimsky’s Earbox (1995), Livre de Baudelaire (1887-89/1994), Pat’s Aria from Nixon in China (1985-87) and Harmonium (1980-81) with soprano Mary Bevan and Hallé Choir. #adventuresinmusic

Looking back at Thomas Adès and London Symphony Orchestra performing Adès Aquifer (2023-24), Sibelius Symphony No. 3 (1904-07), Ruders Paganini Variations (1999-2000) (feat. Sean Shibe) and Alex Paxton World Builder, Creature (2024) #adventuresinmusic

Tonight!! Harmonium with John Adams conducting the Hallé and Hallé Choir - will be epic! #adventuresinmusic

Harmonielehre to die for - Rattle and Berlin Phil on the John Adams classic ”It was Adams’s 40-minute symphony-but-name that blew the roof off at Philharmone. In fact, the crowd went wild already after the first movement.” #adventuresinmusic

Looking back at last week’s formidable concert with Kirill Gerstein and Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson, primed by Stravinsky and Ravel double-bill, combined with two contrasting works from 1960, Pärt’s Nekrolog and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from ”West Side Story”. #adventuresinmusic

Looking forward to launching my weekend with the most stunning soloist entry (and orchestral build-up) in the repertoire - performed tonight by Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson! 💙❤️ #adventuresinmusic

One of the (many) things I love about Leipzig is that your hotel room view is also one of J.S. Bach’s offices. #adventuresinmusic

Having loved and listened to Sir Simon Rattle’s @thecbso.bsky.social recording of John Adams’s astounding symphony-but-name Harmonielehre (1985) for over 30 years, I can’t wait to FINALLY hear him conduct it live with the Berlin Phil on Saturday!! #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the Finnish premiere of Steingrímur Rohloff’s Horn Concerto (2024) with Stefan Dohr and the Tampere Philharmonic under Matthew Halls. #adventuresinmusic

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Tetzlaff and Gerstein ”Rarely does one become so mesmerized, obsessed even by a documented musical performance than listening to this piece of treasure elaborately caught on microphones.” #adventuresinmusic

Happy 89 Steve Reich!!! 🫶🏼 [pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]

Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 3 gets its 🇫🇮 premiere tonight with Olli Mustonen, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk. Here’s the composer discussing the piece ahead of the 2022 San Francisco world premiere. #adventuresinmusic

Returning to Lahti, John Adams introduces Frenzy and Tumblebird Contrails Along with the invigorating Adams and Gabriella Smith 🇫🇮 premieres, Debussy’s pristine La Mer and Première Rhapsodie were heard with the Lahti Symphony and co-principal clarinet Nora Niskanen. #adventuresinmusic

Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony soar in Helsinki Stellar Finnish premiere of Smith’s astounding organ concerto with James McVinnie, the Helsinki Philharmonic and Pekka Kuusisto. #adventuresinmusic

After the Fall takes Gothenburg - John Adams and Víkingur Ólafsson join Göteborgs Symfoniker A Swedish premiere to die for, the new Adams concerto was heard in good company of The Chairman Dances, Stravinsky Symphonies of Winds & Debussy Ibéria. #adventuresinmusic

From Paris to Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble Fab Four at Café Barock - an afternoon well spent in great company. Splendid playlist featuring noble tombeaux and absolute bangers alike. ☕️🎶 #adventuresinmusic

Off to Gothenburg for my 3rd live encounter with John Adams’s ’After the Fall’ (2024) featuring its dedicatee Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist, joined by the Gothenburg Symphony under the composer! #adventuresinmusic

Magnus Lindberg’s Serenades (2020) soar with the Helsinki Philharmonic under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. One of the composer’s finest orchestral scores, heard alongside Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Rachmaninoff PC 1. #adventuresinmusic jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/l...

Ahead of the 🇫🇮 premieres of her Breathing Forests (2021/2023) and Tumblebird Contrails (2014), an interview with Gabriella Smith. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival’s Boulez centennial celebrations, highlighting with Poèsie pour pouvoir (1958) IRCAM reconstruction premiered by LFCO under David Robertson & Molly Turner AND Marco Stroppa’s Come Play with Me (2016-2025)for solo-electronics and orchestra. #adventuresinmusic

Arvo Pärt is ninety years old!! #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Helsinki Philharmonic season opening, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste & Pekka Kuusisto, welcoming Composer-in-Residence Anna Thorvaldsdottir (AERIALITY) and re-introducing Samy Moussa (Stasis) & Anna Clyne (Prince of Clouds), plus ein bißchen Brahms (Symphony 2). #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival, Dieter Ammann’s new Viola Concerto „No templates“ in a milestone performance with Tabea Zimmermann, LFCO & David Robertson, coupled with intriguing world premieres from Guillem Palomar & Jakob Raab conducted by Michelle Di Russo & Sebastian Zinca. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to Helsinki Festival, an intimate evening with Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, Anastasia Kobekina and Fleur Barron, featuring the composer’s chamber classics and a world premiere, along with a tribute to Arvo Pärt at 90. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his future orchestra in the world premiere of his exquisite Horn Concerto for Stefan Dohr. A first performance for the books, setting the stage for Orchestre de Paris’s era with Salonen. #adventuresinmusic

Bryce Dessner’s compelling Impermanence staged with virtuosity and fortitude at Helsinki Festival A staggering production by Sydney Dance Company and Australian String Quartet, Dessner’s hour-long Imparmanence (2021) marked one of the high-points of the 2025 festival. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to Kirill Gerstein’s exquisite recital at Mänttä Music Festival earlier this month, featuring a brilliant set-list of Robert Schumann, Thomas Adès, György Kurtág, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky/Grainger, Francisco Coll and Maurice Ravel. #adventuresinmusic

Relentless sonic joy - Bang on a Can All-Stars at Helsinki Festival Classic All-Stars repertoire from Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Steve Martland paired with inspired dance film commissions. #adventuresinmusic

Variations on America - the FRSO and Susanna Mälkki at the Helsinki Festival Top program feat. Ives Symphony No. 2, John Adams The Wound-Dresser (sung in Finnish), Thomas Adès America - A Prophecy (1999 version) and Andrew Norman Unstuck. #adventuresinmusic

Explaining words with music - interview with David Lang Ahead of the European premiere of ’before and after nature’ (2024) for chamber choir and Bang on a Can All-Stars, with video projections by Tal Rosner, the composer and I discuss the words and music in our talk. #adventuresinmusic

Ives Symphony No. 2 (1897-1902/1910) with the Finnish Radio SO and Susanna Mälkki tonight at the Helsinki Festival!! 🎺🎺🎺🥁

Inspiration, death and inner voices - clownery and string quartet meet at Our Festival Partly staged concert, partly theatre play, taking its cue from @jeansibelius.bsky.social’s Voces intimae and building up to a compelling - and fun - onstage presentation. #adventuresinmusic

Outdoors with the hometown band. 💚