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Classical solo violin album released:

Integration - 500 years of solo violin

An album of violin music spanning five centuries.

Recorded in the Summer 2018 in the medieval Churches St Maria in Pojo and St Katarina in Karis, both in Raseborg, Finland the year after my homecoming to Finland - this album is a varied collection of expressions and styles of music written for the solo violin. The album contains the premiere of Walter Wolff's Integration suite - a tremendously fascinating collaboration with a jazz pianist turned composer - as well as a personal arrangement of the Stormskärs Maja- film tune by Lasse Mårtenson.

One could consider this album both a showcase of the solo violin and an introduction to various musical styles over five centuries.


Buy from Fuga Oy on www.fuga.fi or at live events. Alternatively drop us an email and we will post it to you.

Price: 20€ plus postage

Did you know that when Frida went to her first violin lesson, age 6, she was under the impression that she was to learn the flute. She had never seen or heard a violin before. Her new teacher looked like a viking and she dared not say that she thought there had been a mistake when she was shown the violin.
"Luckily" she really enjoyed the sensations of playing the violin, because she has no aptitude at all for the flute. Her lips are not a good shape for the flute and she never learned to whistle. The violin on the other hand - creates a buzz under the fingertips which she has enjoyed ever since.
The deep sound world of the violin swept her away and she has not surfaced since...