Timo-Juhani Kyllönen - Kone Foundation

At the Saari Residence, I will be composing for a children’s opera currently entitled Èrase que era, el mundo (“Once Upon a Time, the World,” libretto Maritza Núñez). The opera will première on October 4th, 2012 at the Teatro Británica in Lima, Peru. The theatre and opera house has also commissioned the work. The opera will be performed by both professional singers as well as by youths and children. They will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra.

I will also be finalizing my trumpet concerto Cadiz 2012 Op. 85, which has been commissioned by the Grand Teatro Falla in Cádiz, Spain. At the première of The Book of the Kings, an opera of mine in Spanish, I was chosen to be Grand Teatro Falla’s composer-in-residence (2009-2013).

I also intend to begin work on the family opera Norppaooppera (“The Seal Opera”) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which will première at Olavinlinna Castle in 2013.