2006

4/2006 (FINNS IN AMERICA - A MUSICAL AFFAIR)

Brian Wise: How Finnish classical music and musicians made it in America
Peter Haffner: Esa-Pekka Salonen - A Finn in Los Angeles
Vesa Sirén: Karita Mattila - Darling of the Met
Matti Tuomisto: Osmo Vänskä makes the Minnesota Orchestra shine
Riikka Vuorijärvi: They went over the ocean: Rautavaara, Suokko, Tallgren
Alyssa Timin: Revising recording: Ondine and The Philadelphia Orchestra
Tero Liete: Oh, the streets are paved with gold in America
- Finnish emigrants and Finnish music in the New World
Jan-Erik Holmberg: Jazz - from Finland with respect
Jussi Kainulainen: They, too, went over the ocean: Suonsaari, Perko
Mika Kauhanen: In America Finnish folk music competes in the world music market
Santtu Luoto: Go west, young man! - Musician & producer Janne Haavisto in America
Sami Valkonen: Making it in the US - Finnish rock bands in America

Antti-Ville Kärjä: The TV voice of an alternative nation: Three Finnish music video directors
Tim Howell: The timeless quality of Finnish modernism
Matti Tuomisto & Riikka Vuorijärvi: Airway to heaven
- Air Guitar World Championships & Virtual Air Guitar

3/2006 (MUSIC EDUCATION IN FINLAND - MUSIC FOR ALL)

Timo Klemettinen: Music for life (on Finnish music education)
Marja Heimonen: The Finnish music schools and the role of government funding

Articles on basic music education:
Mari Koppinen: The land of music playschools
Mari Koppinen: The music playschool's first steps
Anu Ahola: Soili Perkiö: Music helps children comprehend their lives
Mari Koppinen: Music from morning to night
(on two pupils at the East Helsinki Music Comprehensive School)
Terhi Karttunen: Little girl, big kantele
Pauliina Ylinen: The Violin Kids - There to become lovers of music
Riitta Pietilä: Making music with young people: Markus Fagerudd is adopted by a music school
Riikka Vuorijärvi: Sámi youth embrace their traditional music
Riikka Vuorijärvi: Music education in Lapland helped by remote technology
Matti Ruippo: Music education technology in Finland
Ari Helander: Notes for a revolution - The Figurenotes system enables the mentally handicapped to study music

Articles on vocational music education:
Jussi Kainulainen: True modernisation of rock, pop, and jazz studies
(on the Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory)
Jussi Kainulainen: Saxophonist Jussi Kannaste: "Systematic training gives Finnish jazz musicians a head start"
Marika Leed: Anna-Kaisa Liedes, the voice doctor
Anu Konttinen: Conductor Education in Finland

Columns:
Reijo Aittakumpu: Music in schools under pressure from academic subjects
Heljä Nurmela: Music for all (on adult education)
Kari Kurkela: Music, education, and post-modern media

2/2006 (MUSIC & MONEY – THEME AND VARIATIONS)

Mari Koppinen: Finland supports its artists
(on the Finnish Arts Council system)
Antti Häyrynen: Brighter times ahead for Finnish orchestras
Outi Haapanen: European cooperation as a tool
(on opera education & networking)
Tuulikki Karjalainen: Virtuosi in Kuhmo
(Centre of Expertise for Chamber Music)
Osmo Palonen: Helsinki Music Centre going up in the heart of the city
Matti Tuomisto: Private funding keeps Finnish music festivals alive
Samuli Tiikkaja: Kimmo Hakola & Festival-as-artwork
Kati Sinisalo: Pump Pump Tom Tom Hallelujah – Why?
(Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest)

1/2006 (THE STRING QUARTET IN FINLAND TODAY)

Mari Koppinen: Young Meta4 from Finland: First we take Berlin
Jouni Kaipainen: The string quartet and a smell of warm buns
Marika Leed: Good music and enough advertisement ensure a good audience
(on Ilari Angervo and his string quartet concert series)
Lauri Kilpiö: Professor Puumala’s perspectives: Keeping all options open
Paavo Helistö: Kusti Aerila, Kajanus’s clarinettist
Liisamaija Hautsalo: The Sorrows of Young Adriana
(on Kaija Saariaho’s new opera)
Christian Gasser: Dägä Dägä – Numminen’s smiling Dadaism
(a new FMQ column on musical Finns and phenomena begins)