On the evening of 19 July 1970 Seppo Kimanen was in the vestry looking into the nave of a church. Kuhmo Chamber Music’s first concert was just starting and Kimanen… Read more »

This will be my 24th successive week of chamber music in summertime Kuhmo. I have looked forward to this week in the darkest depths of winter, and felt a longing… Read more »

In early 1996 I received a fax from my management: another festival… two weeks, plenty of chamber works, some teaching… sure, I had heard good things about the place, loved… Read more »

When I was invited to Kuhmo for the first time in 2000, I had no idea what awaited me. I had obviously heard of this world-famous festival and wind colleagues… Read more »

The Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival has undoubtebly had more of an impact on me as a musician than any other musical event. Its broad profusion of music has moulded my… Read more »

Thirty years with a violin, 22 of them under the spell of the spirit of Kuhmo. My image of Kuhmo is of a trinity: The Kuhmo Violin School, the Virtuosi… Read more »

My first visit to Kuhmo was in summer 1989, when I was four. I was listening to a Chamber Music Festival concert with my parents in Kuhmo Church. I would… Read more »

“Morning, Sir. Did you sleep well?” It had been my custom to come straight to the point in addressing our foreign composer visitors, pretending to be cool and brisk. I… Read more »