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PISCES – MIME
30'
(2023, rev. 2025)
concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra
Premiere of revised version for guitar & orchestra at the 79th Ung Nordisk Musik Festival in Helsinki, 27.8.2025.
Teuvo Taimioja, guitar, Kasmir Uusitupa, conductor, Tapiola Sinfonietta.
Premiere at the Kitara Nova -festival in Helsinki, 24.9.2023.
Teuvo Taimioja, guitar, Elisar Riddelin, conductor, Helsinki Chamber Orchestra: Kanerva Mannermaa, concertmaster, David Seixas, II violin, Alexander Pozdniakovas, viola, Laura Martin, cello, Martti Genevet, double bass, Robert Tobin, flute, Petros Andreadis, clarinet, Eliise Tani, french horn, Otto Korhonen, trumpet.
Commissioned by Teuvo Taimioja
Instrumentation: 1010 [+picc] 1100 solo: amplified classical guitar, table guitar prepared with alligator clips, strings 11111 (or 44321). In addition, the wind and brass player and the soloist play tuned Whistle Pop -lollipops (can be substituted with Slide Whistes) and paper sheets. The conductor also operates an electric paper shredder.
Movements:
I. Opposite forces
II. The age of pisces
III. Mime
IV. Coda
Video recording of the premiere of the ensemble version of the work can be found in the gallery below.
Video material © Leevi Räsänen & Teuvo Taimioja
Recording from Ung Nordisk Musik 2025 with
Teuvo Taimioja, guitar, Kasmir Uusitupa, conductor & Tapiola Sinfonietta. Recording & by Armi Lampela & Julius Johansson.
Pisces – Mime (2025)
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We are about two thousand years deep in the age of pisces now. My fascination with astrology lies in how it can suggest people to find meanings and causalities in their day-to-day. The age of pisces is said to be characterised by opposite forces: light and dark, life and death, forward and backwards. For me, this piece, composed and performed during the age of pisces, is also about my past and present. While composing it, I kept reminding myself of that same childlike, naive excitement of making a sound and making it again and again… a habit that gave me a bit of a loud reputation as a kid.
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