Upcoming
Spring & Summer 2023 coming soon
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Past
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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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