Performers & composers

Kimmo Kuokkala

- Central Finland Conservatory 1989-1998: studies in guitar and music theory
- Sibelius Academy since 2000: composition studies with Erkki Jokinen and counterpoint studies with Tapio Nevanlinna
- Summer Courses in Porvoo, Finland 2002 and 2003: composition with Jouni Kaipainen and Magnus Lindberg, orchestration with Esa-Pekka Salonen


Memberships:
- member of the artistic working group of SOI Festival, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Korvat Auki! - Ears Open! Society since 2000

Some performances:
- SOI Festival, Jyväskylä 1998, 1999, 2000
- Jyväskylän Talvi Festival 1999
- Nordic Chamber Music Symposium, Odense, Denmark, 2001
- Contemporary Chamber Music Festival at Helsinki Conservatory 2002
- Ratas Project concerts since 2002 "artistic circle...between and around fine artists, photographers, media artists and composers from Finland and Lithuania"
- Contemporary & New Dance Festival, Joensuu 2002
- Korvat Auki! ry - Ears Open! Society's concerts since 2003
- Ung Nordisk Musik Festival, Oslo, Norway 2003
- Ung Nordisk Musik festival, Helsinki 2005
- SibaFest, Helsinki 2006
- Musica nova Helsinki 2006

Varia:
- awarded in III Kuopio Composition Competition in 2003 (Kirvis for String Quartet)

Kirvis (8')

This work was premiered in Korvat Auki! Society’s concert at Agricola Church in Helsinki the 21st of May, 2003. The first Cikada performance had become actual in autumn 2003 at Park Teatret in Oslo. The work was awarded in III Kuopio composition competition later in autumn 2003.

This work is marked by the alternation or coincidence of two dynamically and timbrally contrasting elements. Dynamically strong, often pointillistic and percussive rusty sounds (metal) are pitted against silent mosaics formed by translucent harmonic crystals (glass). The work is also characterized by a certain angularity, almost as if sculpted by axe.