KYN to premiere suites by Mikko Hassinen and Jukka Linkola
Women’s choir KYN will premiere two compositions commissioned from Mikko Hassinen and Jukka Linkola in concert "Valoja, varjoja - äänessä etninen jazz" at Savoy-teatteri on 21 October 2014. Both suites fall into the category of so-called ethnic jazz, a genre that KYN has formulated through commissioned works. The genre fuses melodic elements and texts of traditional Finnish folk with rhythmics and harmonic structures borrowed from the field of jazz.
