PERFORMER, FLUTIST

Italian-Swiss flutist Livia Schweizer (b.1994) is interested in how music and art can be a medium to connect with the environment and can be used to communicate with artists from different backgrounds and cultures. She is active in several contemporary and experimental music projects including Nyky-ensemble, Korvat Auki, UMUU-ensemble, Eloa ry, Tampering, and Septad-ensemble, and has performed in festivals such as Flow Festival, Helsingin Juhlaviikot, UNM Festival, Musica Nova, Wonderfeel and Luosto Soi. In the last few years she has developed a very strong interest in improvisation and the field of multidisciplinary arts, collaborating often with dancers and theater artists. In addition, Livia is member of the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra and has worked with Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Pori Sinfonietta, and Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.  Please visit Livia’s website for more information!

PERFORMER, CLARINETIST

Originally from Chicago, Lucy has been based in Helsinki, Finland since 2013. She received Bachelor’s degrees in clarinet performance and anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Sibelius Academy. Lucy is a freelance performer in southern Finland and has been a doctoral candidate at the Sibelius Academy (University of the Arts Helsinki) since 2016. Her artistic research centres on American and Finnish contemporary repertoire for clarinet. Her debut solo CD of works for clarinet and electronics, Duel, was released in April 2022. For more on Lucy, please visit her website.

PERFORMER, PIANIST

Helga Karen (1991) is a Finnish pianist specialized in the performance of classical contemporary music. She has performed as a soloist and chamber music musician in various contemporary music festivals such as Lucerne Festival, SoundScape, Musica Nova, ISA2015, Stockhausen Courses and Concerts, Impuls Academy and International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt. Helga has received her Diploma in piano pedagogy from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, completed her pedagogical studies in Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and received her Master in Specialized Performance in Contemporary Music Degree from Basel Music Academy in 2016. Currently Helga is working on her PhD on Stockhausen's piano pieces at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. For more on Helga, visit her website.

PERFORMER, ELECTRONICS

Tuukka Tervo is a sound engineer and artist based in Helsinki, Finland. His work includes engineering, mixing and producing music recordings, engineering live sound and performing electronics. Tervo holds a Masters degree in music technology from Sibelius Academy. His Masters thesis examined the live electronics of Kraft by Magnus Lindberg, which he performed with the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra and soloists. He has performed with the UMUU Ensemble, provided live sound for festivals such as Time of Music and Kallio New Music Days, engineered concerts for acts such as Oddarrang and Jukka Nousiainen, recorded and/or mixed albums for Martti Vesala, Lucy Abrams-Husso, Lithium, Malady, Harri Kuusijärvi & Markus Hohti, Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola, Alder Ego and Aleksi Tuomarila Trio among others.

PERFORMER, CELLIST

Iida-Vilhelmiina Sinivalo is a Helsinki-based freelance cellist who is particularly interested in the versatile expressive power offered by her instrument. She is currently delving into the subject area at the DocMus Doctoral School of the Sibelius Academy. Her approach to the instrument involves many different genres of music and thus seeks to expand the expressive overall image of the instrument. Sinivalo completed her Master's degree at the Sibelius Academy in the Department of Classical Music, with Arto Noras and Timo Hanhinen as her main teachers, after which she has worked extensively as a non-genre musician and pedagogue.