Harri Vuori (1957)

Harri Vuori studied composition with Esko Syvinki at the Lahti Music Institute and with Paavo Heininen, Eero Hämeenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara at the Sibelius Academy from 1978 to 1989. He has had composition concerts in Lahti 1983 and Helsinki 1990 and 1997.
He works as a lecturer in music theory at the Department of Musicology of the University of Helsinki since 1993. His orchestral work Kri (1988) received second prize in the Nordic Music 1989 composition competition in Gothenburg, and the orchestral work Š-wüt (1991) won the composition competition for the 75th anniversary year of Finland’s independence in 1992.
Since 1997, Harri Vuori is composer in residence with the Hyvinkää Orchestra.

Hämärän laulajat

Twilight Songsters, has been performed many times in Finnish National Opera with a choreography (modern dance) created by Jani Talo and his group.

In Twilight Songsters the flute plays a significant role in constructing the melodies, form and acoustics. It cunningly influences the behaviour of the other instruments, as it were, by providing motifs, attacks and textures that taken up buy the others. The only melody in this virtually monothematic work acquires numerous variations and timbres, and sometimes the flute even plays in canon with itself, in wildly playful figures. The title, Twilight Songsters, is a reflection of the spring evening when the quartet was nearing completion as the migrating birds flocked twittering back again.

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