| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-May-2013 Music Centre / Musiikkitalo: Concert Hall | Tapiola Sinfonietta dancing with Pekka Kuusisto at the Helsinki Music Centre |
 What I have experienced multiple times with Tapiola Sinfonietta and with Pekka Kuusisto, and today with both, is that no matter how high your expectations are, these players will always outperform them. There is no such a thing as disappointment with these artists: they are committed to the music with attention to the outcome, to its impact on the listener, to the effect their performance will have in the space. With success.
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| 11-May-2013 LSO St Lukes | A Scream and an Outrage: Session Two at LSO St Luke's |
 The title for this Barbican event certainly threw up some interesting questions. Having failed to attend a riotous dinner party that was characterised by one attendee as “a scream and an outrage”, Nico Muhly set about curating a series of concerts under this title. However, no screams or outrages occurred this weekend. Instead the audience was greeted by the sandal-clad, ponytailed oracles of the New York’s fashionable downtown music scene, whose contributions were gently mesmeric rather than abrasive.
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| 18-Feb-2013 Kings Place: Hall Two | Pekka Kuusisto: Bach and electronic improvisations |
 It seems an unlikely concert title: Bach and electronic improvisations, but that is exactly what the unassuming Pekka Kuusisto informed us we were going to be experiencing at Kings Place on Monday night. Walking on to the stage in Hall Two, lit with coloured spotlights and carrying an electric blue minimalist electric violin along with a traditional instrument, one could have mistaken Kuusisto for a stage hand.Read full review... | |
| 11-Nov-2012 Siuntio Church | The Kuusisto effect: Brahms, Ives and Ligeti in Siuntio, Finland |
 Last Sunday, Pekka Kuusisto performed in Siuntio, a Finnish town not so far from Helsinki, as part of the Lux Musicae Festival, together with pianist Joonas Ahonen and hornist Hervé Joulain. In the penumbra of the candles and the gentle lights of a beautiful church from the 1400s, the first notes of Brahms’ Violin Sonata in G major resounded.
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