Sunday is a flag day in honour of Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) and is also celebrated as the Day of Finnish Music. The national ...

The hosts for this season’s Contest for New Music UMK, Finland’s biggest music show, are artist SANNI and Yle Youth News ...

What does a country sound like? Finland set out to answer this question by becoming the first nation in the world to create an official national soundscape. Plug in, press play and experience Finland ...

Ahead of their announcement as part of ESNS in January, nominees for the 2024 European Festival Awards have been revealed.

Music Streaming services, e.g. Spotify, Deezer or Apple Music, offer unlimited access to their content libraries for a monthly subscription fee (without any advertising). Music can be streamed to ...

Naomi Wilkinson explores Sibelius's ode to Finland with facts, insight and animation. Sibelius loved Finland. One of his most beloved works is Finlandia, which is about the Finnish people ...

Probably no composer in history has meant so much to his native country as did Sibelius. He still does. ‘He is Finland in music; and he is Finnish music,’ observed one critic. Sibelius was born in a ...

Windows95man is a Finnish visual artist and DJ who represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. On December 6, he ...

The European Festival Awards has announced that this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Juhani Merimaa, an industry ...

And Finnish police are making use of this well-known power with a decision to play classical music on some of the country's beaches to deter the young. The initiative was launched in Espoo ...

The European Broadcasting Union has said Israel - represented by Noa Kirel in 2023 - will compete in this year's event More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition ...