NEWS!

Winner in the category “Contemporary Music”

Kalevi Aho: Moonlight Concerto – Concerto For Alto Flute & Strings
Hiyoli Togawa, Alexej Gerassimez, Sharon Bezaly
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, St. Michel Strings
Anja Bihlmaier, Erkki Lasonpalo

“The works of an ambassador of contemporary music, Kalevi Aho’s two concertos show that the strengths of contemporary music include an ability to define its own place within all of music’s genres, without limiting its own style to only one. The combination of sounds from rarely heard percussive instruments to almost Romantic phrases are interpreted with complete dedication by all the soloists and orchestras alike.”

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The ‘Moonlight Concerto’ is a double concerto for viola and percussion by Kalevi Aho, composed for the two musicians Hiyoli Togawa and Alexej Gerassimez. It was premiered with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anja Bihlmaier and will be released by the label BIS. The cover of the album features a painting by the artist Hiyoli Togawa. Order HERE 

A detailed session report of Hiyoli Togawa’s album CHILDREN! (released 2024 BIS) in “The Strad”

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Hiyoli Togawa and Alexej Gerassimez played a live show at NDR Kultur Extra presenting the album “CHILDREN!”

Watch the live concert 

This project, conceived by Hiyoli Togawa and focusing on the situation of children, consists of specially commissioned pieces by Toshio Hosokawa, Johanna Doderer, Gity Razaz, Märt-Matis Lill, Elliott Gyger, Michiru Oshima, Yuri Povolotsky, Kalevi Aho, Federico Gardella, Diana Rotaru, Ivan Buffa, Lu Wang and Alexej Gerassimez, interwoven with allemandes from the six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach.

With Kiveli Dörken, piano and Alexej Gerassimez, Percussion

pre-order HERE

Hiyoli Togawa has added a selection of her artworks to her homepage. Come and have a look and do not hesitate to contact her if you are interested!

Here some paitings…

Kalevi Aho has composed a double concerto for an extraordinary combination of solo instruments : Hiyoli Togawa (viola) and Alexej Gerassimez (percussion) will premiere the concerto for viola, percussion and chamber orchestra in Spring 2022 with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.

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Kalevi Aho dedicated the solo work for viola “Solo XII – In memoriam EJR” to Hiyoli Togawa. She premiered it in Lapland during the festival “Luosto Classics” and now it will be released on the next solo album of Kalevi Aho for the label BIS on the 2nd of July 2021.

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Hiyoli Togawa’s new album “Songs of Solitude” was recorded for the label BIS. In 2020 Hiyoli Togawa made it her mission to capture the isolation that was globally dealt with during the pandemic and commissioned from 11 composers (e.g. Toshio Hosokawa, Kalevi Aho, Tigran Mansurian) solos for viola, especially for her project “Songs of Solitude”. These are interwoven with Bach’s sarabandes of the cello suites. The CD will be released on the 5th of March 2021.

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“Romantic Viola Sonatas“ was released by Naxos in January 2018. The album includes two sonatas by George Onslow and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as well as six nocturnes by Jan Kalivoda.
Order this CD HERE.