New adventures awaiting... Having just finished the concerto for oboe and strings, commissioned by Anni Haapaniemi and to be premiered early 2011, Räihälä is now setting his controls to the heart of the sun... or rather to travel to London and Warsaw for the performances of his quartet Damballa, by the London Sinfonietta and Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej respectively.

On the 23rd of November, there will be the premiere performance of Räihälä’s new piece for mixed chamber choir in the Helsinki German Church. The work will be performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and conducted by Nils Schweckendiek.

Another first performance will be the Finnish premiere of Räihälä’s cello concerto by Martti Rousi with the Joensuu City Orchestra, conducted by Atso Almila, in early February 2011. The work was first heard in Sweden in January 2007.

For the last seven weeks of 2010, Räihälä will be working at the Fenno-African culture centre Villa Karo in Benin, West Africa.