Emil Holmström | defun | ristiveto | helsyd | uusinta

You'll most likely hear Emil playing chamber music in various formations but at times he acts alone and features with orchestras, commissions new solo pieces or ventures into the ancient and strange domains of the piano recital. He takes a keen interest in period pianos and the music of Beethoven, Schumann, Busoni and the Second Viennese School. Works written for him include Ville Raasakka's piano concerto Hypermarket and Hypercommodity, premiered with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Ilari Kaila's suite Taonta and Sami Klemola's Hammond Concerto Ghost Notes.

You can watch Emil and Avanti! conducted by Dima Slobodenniuk perform Hypermarket and Hypercommodity here

Here you can watch Emil perform Charles Ives' Symphony No. 4 with the FRSO conducted by Hannu Lintu.

Here Emil Holmström and Joonas Ahonen perform Dialoge by Bernt Alois Zimmermann with the FRSO conducted by Emilia Hoving.

Ristiveto (Cross-draught) is a group of curious musicians focusing on music of late 19th and early 20th century using raw gut strings and period grand pianos to find the sound that was available for everybody a hundred years ago.

Ristiveto can be a festival, a pop-up concert or just an attitude.

More info about Ristiveto here

Uusinta Ensemble is a Grammy Award-winning contemporary music ensemble founded in 1998 in Helsinki. In addition to its native country Finland, Uusinta Ensemble has performed in USA, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Austria, France and Spain.

Here you can hear Emil perform music by Brice Pauset with Uusinta Ensemble.

More info about Uusinta Ensemble here

Formed in 2009, defunensemble has astonishingly quickly established itself as one of the most important contemporary music groups in Finland. The ensemble's vigorous mission is to systematically delve into the world of electroacoustic music. Defunensemble gives Finnish premieres of the most essential electroacoustic repertoire both classic and current, while simultaneously actively commissioning new works incorporating the latest technologies.

Here you can listen to Emil performing Enno Poppe's Arbeit in a defunensemble concert.

More info about defunensemble here

Discography

Schumann: The Violin Sonatas

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Sonatas

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Beach & Strauss: Violin Sonatas

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Define function

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Emil appears also on the following recordings:

Beyond Poems, Chamber music of Outi Tarkiainen / ABCD415

Nordic Violin Music / ABCD347 (Bengt Carlson: Violin Sonata)

Voices, Stringing / JASECD0048 (Veli-Matti Puumala: Hommages fugitifs)