Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola

Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola combines the sounds of the human voice, piano, and viola da gamba with electronic effects and medieval harp. The players have diverse backgrounds in early music, jazz, Finnish folk music and contemporary music, although it was medieval music that was the inspiration for their highly personal and recognizable sound.

Trio Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola has released two critically acclaimed albums, ÆR and Komorebi, on Outhere Music / Fuga Libera—one of the world’s leading independent labels for classical and contemporary music. The title ÆR draws on a text by Hildegard von Bingen, while Komorebi is a Japanese word describing the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees, creating a delicate dance of shifting light and shadow.

The trio has performed at festivals, concert halls, and churches across Finland, Norway, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.

The Guardian (UK)
"ÆR (Fuga Libera | Outhere Music is an album by Peltomaa Fraanje Perkola, an unorthodox Dutch/Finnish trio for voice, piano and viola da gamba, which takes medieval hymns and transforms them into quizzical, drone-based experimental miniatures.”

Linda Holt / Fanfare (USA):
'As the scholar Evelyn Underhill wrote more than a century ago, the mystical experience is not the occult, not an escape from reality; it is reality itself, all that is left when artifice is stripped away. ... This album touches on that essence as expressed in music, and I can think of few other examples so well done in our time.'

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BIOs
AINO PELTOMAA is a Finnish singer and musician, performing widely with medieval, renaissance, contemporary music and free improvisation. Peltomaa collaborates actively with musicians and artists from different genres and performs regularly in Finland and abroad. Her innovative projects combine elements from early music, folk music and jazz, visual arts, dance and multimedia. Peltomaa performs with choirs and ensembles and has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors and artists.

HARMEN FRAANJE is a Dutch pianist, composer living in Amsterdam. According to the internationally renowned website AllAboutJazz “Harmen Fraanje is emerging as one of the most impressive young European pianists of the past decade.”

Fraanje leads and co-leads several groups and collaborates regularly with Reijseger Fraanje Sylla, Mats Eilertsen Trio, Trio Fraanje/Soniano/Gouband, Michael Moore and also performs solo concerts. Recordings of the projects he’s involved in have been released by eminent labels such as ECM, Winter & Winter, Hubro Music. Fraanje performed with artists as Ambrose Akinmusire, Arve Henriksen, Kenny Wheeler, Thomas Morgan, Werner Herzog, Mark Turner, Trygve Seim. Fraanje teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory.

MIKKO PERKOLA is a viola da gamba-player, composer and singer, performing regularly with e.g. Gramophone-awarded group Phantasm, Concerto Palatino and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. He has performed and recorded with Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, Island´s chamber orchestra, Battalia and Ensemble Severin, Topi Lehtipuu, Hans-Ola Ericsson and Anna Lindail, and recorded gamba sonatas with Aapo Häkkinen, for the renowned label Naxos.

Perkola has premiered works from various contemporary composers (Lucio Garau, Giovanni Mancusol, Eero Hämeenniemi) and is wide range in music making includes collaborations with artists from different genres, from early music to multimedia and solo performances of contemporary music with viola da gamba using effects.