The Time of Music festival program has been released and ticket sales are open! From July 1st to 6th in Viitasaari, you’ll hear the newest music from Finland and around the world, explore soundscapes emerging from the interaction between the animal world and humans, dive into impossible opera plans, travel through space, and reflect on the state of… Read more »
The theme is published! This year’s theme of the Time of Music festival, Time Capsules, asks its listeners in the spirit of Andy Warhol; what we would pack in a box from our own time to be preserved for future generations. How do different social challenges shape our future? How do the authors, performers and… Read more »
Mioko Yokoyama, who has been heard and premiered also in Time of Music Festival, has won the 2025 Teosto Prize with her composition Mineralization! The innovative composition brings out new methods and dimensions of chamber music, while being at the same time a sonorous, three-dimensionally percussive and a lasting masterpiece that awakens all the senses.… Read more »
We are delighted to announce that we are this year among those happy arts organisations that were awarded funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
In this course, held on 1.-7.6. at Viitasaari Summer Academy, the tutors Claudia Molitor and Anna Koch will give the participants each morning an object, a word, an environment or a thought to feed their imagination. In small groups that will change every day, and alongside tutors, participants will develop responses to these propositions and spend the day following their ideas. In the afternoon gatherings, the processes of the day will be shared in the form of an experience.
Come get inspired and learn the music of our time! Come get inspired and learn the music of our time! The annual Summer Academy of the Time of Music festival to be arranged this year 1–6th of July offers unique opportunities to study music of our time under the guidance of world-famous tutors in an… Read more »
This course on 1.-6.7.2025 at the Time of Music Festival invites emerging pianists, instrumental duos and composers (born after 1.7 1991) to come together to create new works and talk about music together. Performers should either be solo pianists or an established duo of any instrumental combination. The course will be led in English by Mark Knoop (piano) and Matthew Shlomowitz (composer).
This course of co-creative processes, “laboratory of not-knowing”,1. – 6.7.2025 is open for composers, musicians, composer-performers, and other artists working with sound / silence / performance. The course language is English. Applicants should be born after 1.7.1990.
Musiikin aika 2024 Julistus – Time of Music 2024 Manifesto. Video by Kim Saarinen Modomo Films Oy
On January 1, 2025, M.A. Kerttu Piirto will start as Executive Director of the Time of Music festival and its background association, Viitasaari Kesäakatemia ry. Time of Music is one of Finland’s oldest contemporary music festivals, renowned for its international profile and extensive partnerships within the EU’s Creative Europe networks. Kerttu Piirto has previously worked… Read more »