Outi Tarkiainen's new orchestral work The Rapids of Life will receive its World Premiere October 4, 2024.
In a fantastic concert celebrating the meeting of music traditions and cultures, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Pekka Kuusisto, will premiere The Rapids of Life, a work dedicated to Kaija Saariaho.
Jointly commissioned by Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, The Rapids of Life is a work about the act of giving birth.
The Rapids of Life is a work about that paramount moment, about a female’s instinctive birth-giving and a little child of nature who opens his eyes for the first time. The form of the work imitates the physiological delivery and its different stages, carried along by the ever-shifting waves.
(Outi Tarkiainen)
Performance details
World Premiere
October 4, 2024
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
Swedish Premiere
March 13, 2025 (Göteborg)
March 14, 2025 (Vara)
Göteborg Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor
Dutch Premiere
March 22, 2025 (Amsterdam)
March 23, 2025 (Utrecht)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Alexandre Bloch, conductor
UK Premiere
Date TBC
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
