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Pioneers: Kari Kriikku – clarinettist extraordinaire
Music Finland's 10-year-anniversary article series honors and celebrates the PIONEERS of Finnish music export.Kari kriikku biography of abraham
These are the bands, artists and musicians who went out to the world with little help and knowledge of how the international music business works – and still managed to find audiences for their magnificent art. In the 5th chapter of the series, we put the spotlight on clarinettist Kari Kriikku and the Avanti!
chamber orchestra, co-founded by him nearly four decades ago.
Lively and charismatic onstage, Kari Kriikku is one of Europe’s top clarinettists in the contemporary classical field. Yet he’s equally at home – and as captivating – playing klezmer, tango, folk, rock and Arabic music.
Clarinettist Kari Kriikku has premiered works written expressly for him by contemporary composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Michel van der Aa, Unsuk Chin and Magnus Lindberg.
If the number of new compositions dedicated to a