In Lux Musicae’s concert Kuuntele luonto puhuu was heard the young composer Maleena Linjama’s Un oiseau enchanté performed by Ilmo Ranta. Now we will hear more of Linjama, when Lux Musicae’s commissioned premiere will be performed during the closing concert on Sunday 17.11.
Linjama says she has been composing since the age of six, but it was only towards the end of her piano studies that she realised that composing felt like the most important and unique form of musicianship. The soundscapes of nature documentaries, cinematography and the combination of visual elements with music have fascinated her since childhood. The inspiration for her compositions has often come from a picture or a landscape.
Linjama’s music combines impressionism, neoclassicism, film music and old jazz. He studied singing at the jazz department of the Sibelius Academy and feels that this has broadened and liberated her musical style.
On the Finnish Composers page, she says that she doesn’t exactly plan her works in advance, but that they emerge through experimentation and listening, like a jigsaw-like painting, gradually coming together and becoming more precise. Improvisation is the most important part of composing. In her opinion, the most liberating aspect of composing is openness and the ability to break out of compartments: it is often by combining different styles that one finds the most fascinating soundscapes.
