Ilkka kuusisto biography

He worked for many years in the music department of the Finnish public broadcaster Yle, and also was the artistic director of a leading Finnish music publishing company, Musiikki-Fazer:, in the early s.

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Kuusisto worked extensively as a choirmaster, conducting the Finnish National Opera chorus and the Radio Symphony Chorus for several years, as well as having engagements with many other choirs. His perhaps highest-profile management role was as the Director General of the National Opera, between and Both his sons, Jaakko — and Pekka bornare also conductors, composers, as well as violinists.

In his five-act opera Sota valosta The Battle for the Sun, he combines themes from the national epic, the Kalevala, and uses archaic elements borrowed from medieval and folk music. Other popular stage works include Gabriel, tule takaisin! Gabriel, come back!

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Ilkka Kuusisto has also written several solo songs and song cycles such as Do not stand at my grave and weep for soprano and piano is composed in Other vocal works include songs to text by various Finnish poets such as L. Sales material 1. Soloists: 7 singing roles, female non-singin role, male speaking-role playing mouth-organ, dancersmaybe children.

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