Works by Luukas Hiltunen
Biography
After having studied two years on a professional undergraduate degree, a versatile Finn musician Luukas Hiltunen graduated from the Lahti Conservatory of music on 30th May 2018. He graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences on 14th June 2023 with a Bachelor of Music Pedagogy degree. From 13th September 2023 onwards he has been working full-time as a self-employed entrepreneur, composer and arranger
Milestones:
- Young Composer of the Year 2024 by Mikkeli Music Festival (announced on 29th July 2023), resulting a commission for mixed choir and symphony orchestra for the 33rd opening concert of the 2024 festival on 3rd August 2024, performed by Helsinki Philharmonic Choir and Saimaa Sinfonietta under the baton of Aliisa Naige Barrière - Scintillation for mixed choir and symphony orchestra (2024) to the poem Hope is a Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson to precede Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (1824).
- World premieres of the reduced versions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker by Chamber Orchestra of Lapland on 13th October 2022 at Korundi House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland, in cooperation with ballet studets from the Lapland Music and Dance Institute. A subsequent performances of Waltz of the Snowflakes occurred on 14th December 2023 in Lappeenranta and on 15th December 2023 in Mikkeli at the Christmas concerts by Saimaa Sinfonietta under the baton of Erkki Lasonpalo.
- World premiere of the reduced setting of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville Overture, commissioned by Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, on 11th September 2023 by Chamber Orchestra of Lapland in the Levi Summit, Kittilä, Finland. The further performance took place on 15th September 2023 in Tromsø Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway.
- World premiere of Symphony No. 1 for full orchestra (2020) on 18th April 2022 in the Järvenpää Hall, performed by Sinfonia Vivo under the baton of its Artistic Director Erkki Lasonpalo.
- World premiere of the meditative composition Do not let your hearts be troubled for soprano and chamber orchestra (2019) on 20th March 2019 at the Church of the Cross (Ristinkirkko), Lahti, Finland, performed by soprano Janina Mäyry and Ensemble de Ton Celeste under the baton of the composer.
- World premiere of his arrangement for violin solo, harp and string orchestra of Jules Massenet's Méditation (2019) on 12th February 2020 at the Felix Krohn Hall, Lahti, Finland, performed by New Lahti Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Juhani Palola.
- World premiere of 15-minute fantasie de concert Conversion (2019) for piano, performed on 28th November 2022 in the Small Auditorium of Tampere Hall by pianist Ville Hautakangas.
- World premiere of String Quartet No. 1 (2022), subtitled as A tale of two lovers, by String Quartet ILME on 25th November 2022 at the Haihara Art Centre in Tampere.
- Publication in Spring 2019 by Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhangen of the arrangement for String Quartet of Jean Sibelius's Scene d'Amour, Op. 71 (2019), originally composed for violin and piano [WH33255]. hagen published his arrangement for String Quartet of Jean Sibelius's Scene d'amour (Op. 71), originally written for violin and piano.
- Publication in June 2023 by Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen of the arrangement for chamber ensemble of Sibelius's The Tempest Suite, Op. 109 [WH33640], commissioned by Ruovesi Chamber Music Festival.
Since Autumn of 2017 he has been the member at the Association of Finnish Sheet Music Engravers (Suomen nuottigraafikot ry.) and from August of 2020 at the Association of Finnish Musicians' Union (Suomen Muusikkojen Liitto).
About the music
An easy to approach, yet variable and constantly captivating musical language, dominated by tonality. Style has been influenced and inspired by found to be a good techniques by the old masters, inspiration has also been taken by the homeland's folk music.
Scintillation for mixed choir and symphony orchestra to the poem Hope is a thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson to precede Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Commissioned by Mikkeli Music Festival in July 2023 to its 33rd opening concert on 3rd August 2024 at the Martti Talvela Hall, Mikkeli, Finland. The world premiere will be performed at the location by Helsinki Philharmonic Choir and Saimaa Sinfonietta (Mikkeli City Orchestra and Lappeenranta City Orchestra) under the direction of Aliisa Neige Barrière, the festival's Young Artist of the Year.
The idea behind the 10-minute work is a concept of a composition that Beethoven never composed to precede his Op. 125, although there would certainly have been a demand for it: in the 60-minute symphony, the choir takes up the last 15 minutes only. Dickinson's poem, which heralds a vision of a hopeful and life-affirming spirit, anticipates the theme of Friedrich Schiller's poem Ode to Joy, which Beethoven employed in his symphony.