OSTROBOTHNIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

OSTROBOTHNIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA , an orchestra in Kokkola founded and conducted in 1972 by Juha Kangas, who is also a folk musician. Until 1979 it was a part of the Ostrobothnian Music College, but it then became independent. The orchestra plays music from the Baroque period on but specializes in contemporary music. It promotes and commissions works from many Finnish and other Scandinavian composers, such as Per-Henrik Nordgren, and has presented over seventy premieres. The Chamber Orchestra...