Pianot – Filmmusik av Michael Nyman möter svensk minimalism

En av de mest kända och älskade filmerna med musiktema är kanske Pianot av Jane Campion, som baseras på Emily Brontës Svindlande höjder. Den brittiska tonsättaren Michael Nyman skrev en numera ikonisk musik till filmen som älskas och spelas av allt från professionella musiker och orkestrar till nybörjarpianister. Här möter vi Nymans musik från Pianot och andra av hans mer kända filmmusikkompositioner, men vi får också stifta bekantskap med några av hans svenska motsvarigheter inom minimalistisk pianomusik, som t.ex. Matti Bye, Johanna Malmberg, Benjamin Staern och Jennie Löfgren.

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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou

This is how the Finnish pianist Reetamaria Rajala would describe herself as an artist.

Since Rajala graduated in 2019 with the highest grade from the Malmö Academy of Music, her career has taken off. She has since played concerts in both the US and throughout Scandinavia. She has also been noted for her virtuosity, temperament and inspiring musicianship.

Rajala is from a family of musicians and she has had high ambitions as a pianist from an early age. She has a lot of experience as a soloist and chamber musician, and she has also participated successfully in several competitions. Reetamaria Rajala has always had a great interest in newly written music and she has premiered several works written for her.

In 2017, Rajala graduated with honors from Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. She continued her masters studies with Hans Pålsson at the Malmö Academy of Music and after her graduation in 2019 she started her freelance career full time. She regularly plays concerts in Finland, Denmark and Sweden, while she herself lives in Malmö.

Rajala has participated in a large number of masterclasses and she has studied with Vera Fadeeva, Tuulikki Lehtinen, Kirsti Huttunen, Janne Mertanen, Hans Pålsson, Christina Bjørkøe and more.

In 2018 Reetamaria Rajala was awarded Vetenskapssocietetens musikaliska pris. The award was given with the following statement:

The pianist Reetamaria Rajala’s lively, temperamental and inspirational personality and musicianship, her energy and dedication to every work she studies and plays makes her an outstanding soloist and also an excellent chamber musician. She has a desire to penetrate the secrets of complicated musical works and an ever-growing ability to work. Reetamaria Rajala is already an artistic force in our music life.
— Jury committee, Vetenskapssocietetens i Lund