Browse: Hakola (composer)

It was the inspiration of Karttunen's wife to request a variation from 30 composer friends on Colombi's Chiacona. They responded with élan for the most part. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Fifty last year, Kimmo Hakola is an exact contemporary of Magnus Lindberg, and like his fellow Finn he was part of that astonishingly talented generation of musicians that also included Salonen... — The Guardian, 6th March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

His 40-minute Clarinet Concerto is a riotous assortment of styles: Balkan or Yiddish folk music, modern jazz and jagged modernism, rock music and the Classical parlour piece… It's all done,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The intensity of Hakola's response to the music compels attention through every bar of the [central] movement...The Oulu Symphony Orchestra are on fine form throughout and Santtu-Matias Rouvali... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…