Flute, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-896-6
Composed by Roope
Mäenpää.
Classical, contemporary.
Score and part. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-896-6.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-896-6).
ISBN
9790550118966.
Roop
e Mäenpää's
Sonata for flute and
piano (2020) was composed
on a small island Utö
in the Archipelago Sea
(in the Baltic Sea).
Isolated from his normal
environment the composer
didn't find so much peace
or harmony as insecurity
and introversion. These
sensations of otherness,
together with an
intensive creative
project, left a
diary-like mark on the
sonata. It is
commissioned by and
dedicated to Sami
Junnonen and Tuomas
Turriago.
Roope
Mäenpää (b.
1990) is a Finnish
composer and musician
based in Tampere.
Mäenpää’s
oeuvre includes
orchestral and chamber
music, and his works have
been performed by the
Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, the Tampere
Philharmonic and the
Lapland Chamber
Orchestra. He has also
worked in close
collaboration with the
TamperRaw contemporary
music ensemble.
Mäenpää has
composed two musical
fairytales for narrator
and orchestra:
Hipinäaasi apinahiisi
(2019-20) and the Insect
Symphony (2021), which he
conducted in 2022 at the
concert by the Tampere
Philharmonic. The
symphony is a valuable
addition to
children’s culture
and an exciting work
which sets out to explore
nature through the
miraculous world of
little organisms.