Upcoming:
Spring 2026 TBA – stay tuned
For upcoming Quartetto Gelato Shows, visit: quartettogelato.ca
For upcoming Freesound Concerts, visit: freesoundmusic.ca
For upcoming Sawtooth Concerts, visit: sawtoothduo.ca
Past
A Raccoon Solstice
A Theatre Direct Production, created by Animacy Theatre Collective, Presented in Partnership with Common Boots Theatre
December 20-21, 2025; Toronto
Tickets and info HERE
Collines-en-musique – PanAmericana II
After a hugely successful first edition, PanAmericana returns for its second year. This time, accordionist Matti Pulkki joins clarinetist Juan Olivares, guiding the audience through repertoire from across North, Central, and South America.
December 13, 2025, 16:00, Venturing Hills Farm, 440 Chem. Crégheur, Luskville, QC J0X 2G0
Tickets and info HERE
Penthelia Singers presents – Tundra and Tradition
November 30, 2025; 3pm, Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount Pleasant Rd, Toronto
Tickets and info HERE
The Quartetto Gelato Experience
November 7, 2025, 7 pm – The Redwood Theatre – Toronto, ON
Tickets and info HERE
Guelph Chamber Choir: Tango to Death
November 1, 2025, 7:30 pm – Harcourt United Church – Guelph, ON
Tickets and info HERE
THE HANDS OF ORLAC – A Gothic Film Experience
October 31, 2025, 8:30 pm – Metropolitan United Church – London, ON
Tickets and info HERE
Festival CulturaUNAM
Sequenzas Berio II
Oct 4th, 2025 6 pm – Sala Carlos Chávez – Mexico City
Sawtooth
Oct 5th, 2025 1 pm – Casa del Lago – Mexico City
Tickets and info HERE
The Happenstancers: Broken
September 26, 2025, 1691 Bloor St W, Toronto
Tickets and info HERE
Link Music Lab – Label Release Party
May 10, 2025, 8pm – Cafeteria – 1650 Dupont St. Toronto
Tickets and info HERE
Quartetto Gelato on Tour
April 6-16, 2025 – British Columbia
Tour dates and stops at quartettogelato.ca
Music for Solo Instruments
Freesound Performance Collective
March 20, 2025 – 8:00
Arraymusic, 155 Walnut Ave, Toronto
Loudspeaker Baptism
Le Vivier & FIKA(S)
Chamber opera in 4 acts for soprano, accordion, Genelec 8020D, puppeteer and electronics.
March 13, 2025 – 7:30pm
Espace Orange | Édifice Wilder, Montreal
Hamilton Contemporary Music Festival
February 22, 2025
Church of the Ascension, 64 Forest Ave, Hamilton ON
Amici Chamber Ensemble
Piaf and Poulenc
Amici Chamber Ensemble, Pandora Topp (vocals),Timothy Ying (violin), Matti Pulkki (accordion)
February 9, 2025 – 3pm
Trinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St. W, Toronto
MSM Symphony Orchestra
Premier of a new accordion concerto by DiDi Gu.
January 31, 2025 – 7:30 pm
Neidorff-Karpati Hall, 130 Claremont Avenue, New York
Kingston Symphony – Quartetto Gelato
Quartetto Gelato performing their newest and freshest tunes with your Kingston Symphony under the baton of Lucas Waldin.
January 25, 2025 – 7:30
Kingston Grand Theatre, Kingston ON
Loudspeaker Baptism
ELECTROCHOC NO. 2
Chamber opera in 4 acts for soprano, accordion, Genelec 8020D, puppeteer and electronics.
Delivery — Memories — Suffering — Sublimation
Loudspeaker Baptism aims to crack open the mundane perception of a loudspeaker as a mere commodity and activate its latent archetypal and mystical meanings. Through a playful yet earnest approach, this opera connects the consumerist and technological framework of a loudspeaker with religious and spiritual symbolism. For instance, Act I: Delivery is inspired by the modern baptism of technological objects: the “unboxing” YouTube videos. Thus, this opera asks, how to meaningfully integrate a loudspeaker, with its whole “soul” and darker facets, into human spiritual life.
December 12, 2024 – 7:30pm Conference / 8pm Concert
Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 4750, Av. Henri-Juilie, Montreal
Kaiutin Kaste
Helsingin Oopperakesä
Chamber opera in four acts for soprano, accordion, Genelec 8020D, puppeteer, and electronics.
Performed by Charles Quevillon, Sarah Albu, and Matti Pulkki.
August 30, 7pm & August 31, 4pm, Aleksanterin Teatteri, Helsinki.
From Persian Gardens to Tango Streets
Persian whispers meet Tango’s passion in a night of music and hope. Join us for a journey through struggles and triumphs. Saba Yusefi in collaboration with Bahar Harandi and Matti Pulkki
June 29, 2024. 8pm, Arraymusic, 155 Walnut Ave, Toronto ON.
Continuum – sur(roundings)
Drawing on their shared interest in improvisation and collective creation, Artistic Producers Émilie Fortin and Hillary Jean Young curate a programme that highlights the creation process as much as the performance. This immersive and collaborative listening experience features works by Cassandra Miller and Alex Jang.
June 8, 2024, 7:00 pm, St George by the Grange, 30 Stephanie Street. Toronto, ON
Open Ears – shshcc
Formed in 2020, shshcc is a trio of Michael Murphy and Wesley Shen on shō and Matti Pulkki on accordion. The seamless blend of free-reed instruments provide a richly distinct and evocative sound playground, allowing for musical experimentation from the meditative spacetime-transcendent to the visceral, energetic and overwhelming. Together, they look to explore all the possibilities of this unique instrumental combination, and also highlight their deeply-rooted connections to ancient and modern cultures from around the globe.
June 1st, 2024, 5pm, The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St, Kitchener ON.
Les Amis Concerts – Wesley Shen & Matti Pulkki
Music for accordion and piano by J.S. Bach, Rojko, Bartok, Valpola & Hosokawa
April 28, 2024, 3:00, Trinity United Church, Cobourg, ON
Windsor Symphony Orchestra
The WSO performs tango music in Fiery Tango Nights, under the baton of Maestro Francisco Hernández Bolaños. This concert is seductive in nature with arrangements from Piazzolla’s music and Carlos Gardel’s Por una Cabeza. Tango music comes alive on stage with World Champion Tango partners Magdalena Gutierrez and Germán Ballejo. Special guest musician and accordion player with Quartetto Gelato, Matti Pulkki, returns to the WSO stage.
February 10, 2024, 7:30 & February 11, 2024 2:30, The Capitol Theatre, Windsor, ON
The National Ballet of Canada – Emma Bovary
February 1-3, 2024, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
UTNMF: Contemporary Music Ensemble: Body Electric
Mozentich, Gubaidulina, Davies, Francesconi
January 30, 2024, 7:30 pm, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park, Toronto
Tickets and further information HERE
Chamber Music Hamilton: Sounds of Spanish Descent
Pieces by de Falla, Sarasate, Granados, Piazzola, Revueltas, McFadden
January 28, 2024, 2:00 pm, Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King St., Hamilton, ON
Tickets and info: chambermusichamilton.com
Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra & Quartetto Gelato
The TBSO is thrilled to join forces with the amazingly effervescent Quartetto Gelato! Virtuosic showpieces and romantic ballads, blazing jazz Manouche tunes and forgotten chestnuts, all brought to life with multi-instrument mastery: this is Quartetto Gelato—a popular and highly unusual classical quartet.
January 20, 2024, 7:30, Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
Tickets and info HERE
2023
The Annex Singers – In the Margins
How do we light the darkness and comfort those in need? Through repertoire that spans 1,000 years, our programme explores various forms of marginalization against the backdrop of winter, often a time of scarcity and hardship. Featuring traditional favourites, music by Josquin, Rossi, and Pärt, and a newly commissioned work by acclaimed Canadian composer Frank Horvat.
December 16, 2023, 7:30 pm, Grace Church on-the-Hill Toronto & online
Further information HERE
Quartetto Gelato on Tour
British Columbia: November 2023
Tour dates and stops at quartettogelato.ca
University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble
Performing 3 sur 5 by Clara Iannotta
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 7:30 PM – Walter Hall, University of Toronto
Info HERE
Freesound
Music for Trumpet, Accordion & Percussion
Members of Freesound perform works for trumpet, accordion, and percussion, by composers from Canada, England, The Netherlands, and Finland.
Program
Six Pieces for Trumpet & Percussion (2001) – Laurence Crane
nonacceptance (2021) – Lieke van der Voort
Une marche dans l’bois (2021) – Sophie Dupuis
Metal Work (1984) – Magnus Lindberg
Neshamah (2021) – Christopher Fox
Tickets and info HERE
ONSOUND Festival:
Sawtooth (Sarah Albu & Matti Pulkki)
July 19.-23, St John’s, NL
More info HERE
DMA Recital III
May 23. -23, Toronto, ON
Final doctoral recital with music by Jukka Tiensuu, Uroš Rojko, Michele Foresi, Maja S.K. Ratkje, and J.S. Bach featuring Matti Pulkki, Sarah Albu, Wesley Shen & Michael Murphy
May 23. 2023, 4pm – Walter Hall, University of Toronto, FREE
Link to Program and Live Stream HERE
New Music Gathering
June 22-24, -23, Portland, OR
Henki by Tytti Arola performed by Matti Pulkki and Timothy Roth
https://www.newmusicgathering.org
Experimental Link Series
May 13. -23, Toronto, ON
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and Matti Pulkki
Tickets and info HERE
Freesound presents: Music for Shō and Accordion
May 15. -23, Toronto, ON
TaPIR Lab: Composer in Residence
May 19. -23, Toronto ON
In July 2022, TaPIR put out a call for composers to collaborate with the lab on the creation of four new pieces. This concert will present the culmination of a nearly year-long commission and collaboration process. Each piece utilizes experimental computer music techniques, from computer vision and AI sound synthesis to multichannel audio processing and hardware hacking.
May 19. 2023, 7:30 – Arraymusic, 155 Walnut Avenue, Toronto. FREE
Information HERE
U of T presents: U of T New Music Festival – Contemporary Music Ensemble
U of T New Music Festival with Ana Sokolović
Contemporary Music Ensemble
Wallace Halladay, conductor
Matti Pulkki, accordion
Ana Sokolović: …and I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses…or…what a glorious day, the birds are singing “halleluia”…
Jean Lesage: Perspectives carnavalesque
Snezana Nešić: Equilibrion II
Uroš Rojko: Concerto fluido
January 31, 2023 | 7:30 PM, Walter Hall, Toronto
Tickets and more information HERE
2022
The Cave
British Columbia Tour Oct 17 – Nov 20. Dates and locations:
The Cave is a new cabaret event by renowned Canadian artists John Millard (composer) and Tomson Highway (lyricist). It is their distinctive and imaginative response to our planet’s precarious survival.
Pro Coro Canada: Petite Messe Solennelle
Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini. Pro Coro Canada & Michael Zaugg with Jacqueline Hernandez, soprano, Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano, John Tessier, tenor, Jin Yu, bass, and Matti Pulkki, accordion, Roger Admiral, piano
Sat Nov 15, 2022 – 7:30 pm Edmonton
DMA Recital II
Premier of Henki by Tytti Arola for accordion and multimedia, along with works by by Hosokawa, Scelsi, Katehis & Füting.
Featuring Matti Pulkki (accordion), Wesley Shen (shō), Tim Roth (electronics).
Thu Sep 15, 2022 – 7:30 pm EDT Walter Hall, Toronto
Toronto Summer Music: Inspirations
Superstar soprano Karina Gauvin joins conductor Nicolas Ellis and the TSM Festival Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, arranged by Klaus Simon for chamber ensemble.
Thu Jul 28 – 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT Koernel Hall, Toronto
Sarah Albu & Matti Pulkki
duo voix & accordéon Adventurous voice and accordion duo performing new and old music. Exploring connections between folk, chamber, new//experimental music +++
8pm July 11th, 2022
5043 R. Saint-Denis, Montréal
https://www.lamarcheacote.ca/events/sarah-albu-matti-pulkki
The Cave
As part of Luminato 2022 festival
The Cave is a new cabaret event by renowned Canadian artists John Millard (composer) and Tomson Highway (lyricist). It is their distinctive and imaginative response to our planet’s precarious survival.
Concord of Sounds: New Music for Accordion
Premiers by Jeewon Kim, Yu-Chun Chien & Matt Simon, and recently premiered works by Reiko Füting and George Katehis.
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Concert at 7:30 pm, doors at 7 pm. Free entry.
The Rite of Spring
London Symphonia
London Symphonia celebrates the season of new life with Igor Stravinsky’s monumental work The Rite of Spring, Alice Ping Yee Ho’s Jubilation of Spring and the première of Richard Mascall’s Ziigwan (Spring), commissioned by London Symphonia and conducted by Tania Miller.
The Rite of Spring arranged for a chamber orchestra including accordion by Scott Good
Grounds for Goodness
Jumblies Theatre & Continuum Contemporary Music
Small Arms Inspection Building Mississauga and Online
Feb 12-27, 2022
Keiko Harada Profile Concert
University of Toronto Noon Concert Series
Curated by Rob MacDonald featuring chamber music by Keiko Harada, including The Fifth Season for guitar and accordion.
Walter Hall, University of Toronto
Thursday, March 31st, 12:00 PM
2021
L’OUTRE-RÊVE – Transborder coming-of-age-tales
Ensemble contemporain de Montréal
4 multidisciplinary new works by Annesley Black, Myriam Boucher, Symon Henry, Snežana Nešić
Soloists: Sarah Albu (vocal art), Émilie Girard-Charest (musical saw and cello), Matti Pulkki (accordion), Lucie Vigneault (dance)
ECM+: 9 musicians conducted by Véronique Lacroix
Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 7:30pm
Pierre-Mercure Hall
300 boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Montréal
WEBCAST AVAILABLE UNTIL OCT 9TH
DMA Recital No. 1
Music for accordion, live electronics and cello. Giacinto Scelsi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Luciano Berio, Kalle Autio (world premiere), Timothy Sullivan, Alexina Louie & Bryce Dessner. Matti Pulkki, accordion & Allison Rich, cello.
FREE LIVESTREAM
OCA Music Presents “the passage of time…”
produced by Left Edge Collective
the passage of time… brings together performers from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico for a virtual performance of two works: David Bithell’s Subterranean, a technological exploration of isolation, uncertainty, and the hope for connection – and Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together – a work that 50 years after its composition in reaction to the deadly riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, remains an enduring and prescient lens through which to view our world.
Monday, May 10, 5:00pm Pacific Daylight Time (2:00pm EST)
Live streamed from the SOU Music Recital Hall on the Oregon Center for the Arts YouTube Channel: youtube.com/OregonCenterForTheArts
FREE and open to the virtual public. No live audience will be admitted for this concert.
2020
muted blast/2 with Jana Luksts (piano)
Jana Luksts (piano), Wesley Shen (piano), Matti Pulkki (accordion), Adam Sherkin (piano), Brad Cherwin (bass clarinet), Phil Albert (double bass), Michael Murphy (percussion). Works by Katehis, Seglias, Maronidis, Spyrou, Gioti, and others.
Solos
Matti Pulkki, accordion
Music by P. Glass, J.S. Bach, A. Pauk & M. Lindberg
Music Wednesday, Arts & Letters Club Toronto
Wednesday March 4th, 2020, concert at 1 pm, 14 Elm Street, Toronto / FREE ADMISSION
2019
Re:SPECT(ral)
University of Toronto Contemporary Music Ensemble
Wallace Halladay, director
with Matti Pulkki, accordion, and
Lindsay Connolly, mezzo-soprano
CAMPO Licht!
SCELSI Pranam I
HAAS La profondeur
GRISEY Partiels
LEROUX De l’Épaisseur
Nov 26th, 7:30 pm in Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park, Toronto
Free admission
Shapes & Icons
Combining iconic late 20th-century soundscapes with brand-new ones, Matti Pulkki presents a concert of Finnish music for solo accordion by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cecilia Damström and Magnus Lindberg with a premiere performance of a piece by Reiko Füting. Compositions include an adaptation of Rautavaara’s “Icons,” written in 1955 and based on his experiences in New York; an exciting, recent work by Cecilia Damström; and the widely celebrated, classical accordion piece “Jeux D’Anches” by Magnus Lindberg.
The concert is made possible by generous support from the Finlandia Foundation National. New work by Reiko Füting is commissioned by Ralph Crispino, Jr.
Nov 12th, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Scandinavia House, New York
Tickets and details @ Scandinavia House
The Coyotes
Caravan Farm Theatre
July 23 – August 25, Caravan Farm Theatre, Armstrong BC
Tickets and details: here
The Cave
As part of Luminato 2019 festival
A cabaret about why the animals sought refuge, created by John Millard, Tomson Highway and Martha Ross.
June 18-23, Tank House Theatre, Toronto ON
Live stream available around the world on June 22nd
Tickets and details: Luminato
Lohja Orchestra string quintet, featuring Matti Pulkki & Jonne Grans
Rautavaara, Vainio, Alakotila, Valpola
May 8th 2019, 7pm. Karkkila library
May 9th 2019, 7pm Lohja library
Kohtauksia – Matti Pulkki & Jonne Grans
Palmgren, Tansmann, Tarnanen, Brouwer, Sánchez-Verdú
Satakunnan soitannollinen seura
May 10th 2019, 6pm. Mikaelsgården, Pori Finland, programs 10 €
Duo Matti Pulkki & Jonne Grans
South Carelia Mini Tour
Pieces for accordion and guitar by Hassinen, Tansmann, Tarnanen, Brouwer, Sánchez-Verdú
March 23rd 2019, 3pm, tickets 15/13 € (inc. museum entrance)
Lappeenranta Art Museum
March 24th 2019, 3pm, tickets 10/5 €
Hamina Puistotalo
University of Toronto presents music by Toshio Hosokawa
Featuring Faculty Artists
January 21st 2019, 7.30pm, tickets 30/20/10 CAD
Walter Hall, Toronto
Canada
2018
Uuden musiikin lokakuu: Yön ja päivän rajalla
Matti Pulkki, accordion & Jonne Grans, guitar
New pieces by Dimitri Papageorgiou, Heidi Hassinen & Kalle Vainio with music by José María Sánchez-Verdú, Niilo Tarnanen & Kalle Autio. The piece by Dimitri Papageorgiou is commissioned by the Delian Academy, Greece with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
September 28th 2018, 6pm, tickets 15/8€
Tulindberg Hall, Oulu
Finland
Klang
Part of the Finnish Soloists’ Association (SolY) concert series. Premiere of UR (2017) by Niilo Tarnanen with guitarist Jonne Grans.
September 10th 2018, 7pm
Camerata Hall, Helsinki Music Center
Finland
Law of the Land
A fast-paced musical farce about energy projects, set in a fictional BC town – a place where cowboys fall in love with environmentalists, crows wax philosophical, and the animals put man on trial.
July 24 – August 26, 2018, shows nightly 7.30 pm
Caravan Farm Theather, 4886 Salmon River Road
Armstrong, BC
Canada
Natt-öö-夜
Performing the premiere of a large-scale song cycle Natt-öö-夜 By Tze Yeung Ho and music by Moulinié, Britten and Dowland along with Elisabeth Hetherington and Liis Viira.
31.5.2018 / 19:00
Suurgild, Ajaloomuuseum, Pikk 17
Tallinn, Estonia
Become/Dessicated
Solo works by Katehis, Lindberg, Torrés, Harada, Haapamäki.
REEDBLOCKS | THESSALONIKI ACCORDION FESTIVAL
13.4.2018 / 21:00
Horodentro, Katholikon 4
Thessaloniki, Greece
Before the concert at 15:00 Workshop titled: “Accordion for Composers” with composer George Katehis
Contemporary Music for 1 to 4 Accordions
A special concert featuring music from the last two decades written for 1, 3 and 4 accordions. Featuring 4 fantastic young players: Matti Pulkki, Ghenadie Rotary, Mirko Jevtović and Nejc Grm.
23.2.2018 / 16:00 / free admission
Basel Music Academy, Neuer Saal
Basel, SUI
https://www.facebook.com/events/150961092366793/
Sibafest: Hommage à Sibelius
Premier of a new piece by Perttu Pölönen with Walter Witick, marimba and Iván Bragado Poveda, harp
Tickets available at sibafest.fi and ticketmaster
2.2.2018 / 6pm. / 11-17.50€
Helsinki Music Center, Camerata Hall, Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki, FI
Talven Nuoret Taiteilijat: Matti Pulkki
New compositions by Tze Yeung Ho and Shahriyar Farshid, Finnish premiere by George Katehis, chamber pieces by Rebecca Saunders, Georg Friedrich Haas and José María Sánchez-Verdú
11.1.2018 / 7pm. / 6-17,50€
Helsinki Music Center, Camerata Hall, Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki, FI
2017
Become/Dessicated
Solo works by Katehis (world premiere), Lindberg, Torrés, Harada, Haapamäki.
16.11.2017, 7:30pm.
Dimenna Center, Benzaquen, Hall 450 West 37th Street
New York, US
21.11.2017, 8 pm.
Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Avenue
Toronto, CA
NYKY Ensemble: Intiimi nykykamari
Prison Gate Girls Song by Kalle Autio with Taavi Kiviranta, guitar
Concert will be broadcasted by the Finnish Radio Yle 1 on 8.11. at 10.05 pm. and is available for listening at Ajassa soi – Intiimi nykykamari
3.11.2017 / 7pm. / free entry
Helsinki Music Center, Camerata Hall, Mannerheimintie 13
Helsinki, FI
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