Eva Alkula

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Kantele musician Eva Alkula specializes in contemporary music and Japanese-influenced music. Eva performs regularly as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles in Finland and abroad. Her collaborations with contemporary composers, musicians, and visual artists have generated many new works for the kantele, concert projects, and installations. She has performed new kantele music in numerous music festivals, such as Our Festival, Tampere Biennale, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Musica Nova, Time of Music, Nordic Music Days (Norrköping, Copenhagen, Reykjavik), MATA -festival (New York), Myrkir musik dagar (Reykjavik) and Bergen International Festival. Eva has performed as a soloist with Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra Polledro (Turin). She has also joined several theater and opera productions in Tampere Theater, Finnish National Theater, Finnish National Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Utrecht Akademietheater, and Von Krahl Theater (Tallinn). Her experience with electronic music includes collaborations with violinist Pekka Kuusisto, KONEV -ensemble, and electronic musician Juha Sipilä, among others and she has commissioned new works for kantele and electronics. With an ever-broadening international audience, she has given concerts across Europe, as well as in Russia, the USA and Japan. Her connections to Japanese music and culture run especially deep and span almost her entire professional life. In 1999-2000 she studied kot

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Youkihi

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Laulu -uta zukushi-

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Laulu~うたづくし~

Helios

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Laulu _ Fill in with Songs

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Laulu~うたづくし~

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Lassila: Nomada / Karelian Camel / Baym Rebin's Sude - Rebin's Tanz / Tuiske / Dybbuk Ahava / Legendara Shtetl / Kandel: Kandel's Hora

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Kantele Colours

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Laulu～うたづくし～

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Kantele Satoa: Contemporary Kantele

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Kantele Colours: Finnish Kantele Parade

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Ikioto

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