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30.3.2025

FMQ publishes Markku Klami's column on the significance of arts and culture for humanity

In this deeply personal column, Markku Klami reflects on how music became his survival strategy, why composing remains his greatest calling, and how culture can give us a reason to live.

28.1.2025

World premiere of Markku Klami's Fractured (Memoria II) given by decacordist Mari Mäntylä

Mari Mäntylä, the leading Finnish decacordist, will give the world premiere performance of Markku Klami's recent work, Fractured (Memoria II), at Kuhmo Arts Centre's Lentua hall in Kuhmo on January 30, 2025.

21.7.2024

Exploring the musical landscape: Lauri Sallinen premieres Markku Klami's Ambience I at Meidän Festivaali

Lauri Sallinen, one of the most in demand Finnish clarinettists, will give the world premiere performance of Markku Klami's recent work, Ambience I: Burning, at Meidän Festivaali in Järvenpää on July 29, 2024.

22.11.2023

Markku Klami's Elegia featured in ISCM World New Music Days in South Africa

Markku Klami's song cycle Elegia, to the poems by Katja Klami, will be featured in the International Society for Contemporary Music World New Music Days Festival in South Africa

5.2.2023

Audite tours with Markku Klami’s into the deep peace

In the spring of 2023, Audite chamber choir tours with their 30th anniversary tour Voices of Earth, featuring Markku Klami’s into the deep peace (2021), set to the texts by John Muir.

22.1.2023

Patrik Kleemola tours with Markku Klami's Etudes in Finland and Germany

Patrik Kleemola gives the concert world premiere of Markku Klami's entire Etudes cycle at the opening concert of Sibelius Academy's International Guitar Pedagogy Conference on February 3, 2023 at the Organo hall of the Helsinki Music Centre.

11.8.2022

Announcing 2022-2023 season highlights

Markku Klami's vocal and instrumental music will be heard on several occasions during the 2022-2023 season.

4.6.2022

Markku Klami's Elegia nominated to the 68th International Rostrum of Composers

The Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) recently nominated Markku Klami's Elegia to the poems by Katja Klami to this year’s International Rostrum of Composers, organized by the International Music Council.

29.3.2022

TampereRaw to premiere Markku Klami's Elegia at Tampere Biennale Festival

A new work for soprano and Pierrot ensemble, titled Elegia (Elegy) by Markku Klami will be premiered by soprano Tuiki Järvensivu and TampereRaw, a Tampere-based ensemble of contemporary music, at Tampere Biennale Festival on April 7, 2022.

26.11.2021

Edition Wilhelm Hansen publishes Markku Klami's Etudes for guitar

The biggest music publisher in Scandinavia, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, has published Markku Klami's Etudes for guitar.

24.9.2021

Patrik Kleemola gives the YouTube premiere of Klami's Etudes for guitar

A 10-week release event of Markku Klami's Etudes for guitar (2021) begins on Monday, September 27, 2021 and will run until Monday, November 29, 2021 on Patrik Kleemola's YouTube channel.

10.9.2021

September premieres with Lauri Sallinen & Seinäjoki City Orchestra and Patrik Kleemola

Lauri Sallinen premieres Markku Klami's Clair for clarinet and large ensemble with the Seinäjoki City Orchestra on September 16, 2021. Patrik Kleemola releases weekly premieres of Klami's Etudes for guitar on his YouTube channel on Mondays from September 27 until November 29, 2021. Rondo Classic interviewed Klami for their September 2021 issue of the magazine.

8.3.2021

Markku Klami’s FUME selected to the finals in Kaleidoscope’s 2020 Call for Scores in Los Angeles

Los Angeles based orchestra Kaleidoscope received almost 8000 applications from composers in 86 countries in their 2020 Call for Scores. 189 works by 172 composers were selected to the final round, including Markku Klami’s clarinet concerto FUME.

18.12.2020

verweilen released on streaming platforms

verweilen, an ambient soundscape inspired by the coronavirus pandemic has just been released on various streaming platforms.

3.11.2020

Patrik Kleemola to premiere Markku Klami's Etudes for guitar

Four etudes, titled ”Memoria”, ”Agitato nervosamente”, ”Nocturno” and ”Stream” from Markku Klami’s upcoming Etudes for guitar collection will get their world premiere by Finnish guitarist Patrik Kleemola in his recital on November 11, 2020 at the Sibelius museum in Turku, Finland.

18.8.2020

Markku Klami makes his New York debut with ensemble mise-en

The New York-based ensemble mise-en will arrange their annual MISE-EN MUSIC FESTIVAL in Brooklyn, New York on August 17-20, 2020. The festival program features Markku Klami's "aura" for alto flute and electronics.

14.7.2020

Thoughts on truth – Göreme Echoes featured at FBC's The Finnish Music of Our Time series

Markku Klami's Göreme Echoes featured in Aikamme suomalaista musiikkia (The Finnish Music of Our Time) on Finnish Broadcasting Company

23.10.2019

Clair sketches selected as a finalist in Kaleidoscope's 2019 Call for Scores in Los Angeles

Markku Klami's Clair sketches for clarinet, bandoneón and string quartet has been selected as one of the finalists in Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra's 2019 Call for Scores. Kaleidoscope received over 2200 entries from composers from 90 countries around the world in their recent Call for scores for their upcoming 6th concert season in 2019-2020.