2026
String quartet no. 4 (2026)
Premiere: Quartet MĀYĀ
Hitomi Hall, Nagoya, Japan,
November 13, 2026.
https://musicstation.official.ec/items/153831442
Fons Sapientiae (2026)
for early music ensemble.
Premiere: Amor Céu Ensemble.
Aino Peltomaa (soprano & harp)
Eira Karlson (alto & vielle)
Anna Oramo (mezzo-soprano & clavicimbalum)
Musica Antiqua Takamatsu festival, Naoshima, Japan.
November 2, 2026.
https://mafestivaltakamatsu.com/schedule2026/
The Woman on the Sixth Street (2026)
for noh performer, actor, percussion and string quartet.
Libretto: Selja Ahava
Premiere: Tampere Hall, Small Auditorium, April 18, 2026.
Ryoko Aoki, Noh performer
Petriikka Pohjanheimo, actress
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Aleksi Barrière, direction and dramaturgy
Étienne Exbrayat, stage and lighting design
Yuichiro Sato, paintings
https://www.tamperebiennale.fi/en/programme/secret-flowers/
NARITAI - ich möchte zeuge sein (2025)
for soprano and electronics
Premiere: Stimmkünstlerin Frauke Aulbert
klub katarakt, Lange Nacht, Kampnagel Hamburg
January 17, 2026
https://www.klubkatarakt.net/89-1-programm-2026
other performance at Frequenz Kiel -festival
January 19, 2026
https://www.frequenz-kiel.de/neues/lied-update
2025
Feuergoldsand (2025)
for 17-string bass koto
Premiere: Nobutaka Yoshizawa (koto) and Keiko Kobayashi (dance)
Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
October 12, 2025
https://www.nobutaka-yoshizawa.com/nobu-lab.html
Katoaminen (2024)
for mixed choir
Premiere: Helsingin kamarikuoro & Dani Juris, conductor
Ritarihuone, Helsinki, Finland
October 9, 2025
https://helsinginkamarikuoro.fi/index.php/en/concerts/2025/art-loving-new-works-finland
Kheírōn (2007)
for viola and piano
Ensemble Cameo:
Maya Egashira and Kyoko Fukushi
Tokyo Concerts Lab., Japan
September 26, 2025
https://tocon-lab.com/event/20250926
Thin Ice - Facing the Abyss
Juha T. Koskinen: Usugôri (2018)
Choreography: Keiko Kobayashi
17-string bass koto: Nobutaka Yoshizawa
La Danse Compagnie Kaleidoscope
Dancers: Yurisa Nakazawa, Miki Iwata, Keiko Kobayashi
Dance Brick Box, Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
July 12-13, 2025
https://www.nobutaka-yoshizawa.com/action.html
CD: New Finnish Chamber Music for Baroque Instruments, Alba Records
Baroque Ensemble Cornucopia
Juha T. Koskinen:
Orage souterrain - Sakagami (2017/2021)
for recorder, violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord and electronics
https://alba.fi/en/product/abcd-510-cornucopia/
2024
Earthrise (2024)
for actor, soprano/vocal improviser, baroque orchestra and electronics.
Libretto: Aleksi Barrière
Fp: Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, October 17, 2024.
Text and stage direction: Aleksi Barrière
New music: Juha T. Koskinen
Electronics: Timo Kurkikangas
Old music montage and ensemble direction: Marianna Henriksson
Singer/vocal improviser: Anni Elif Egecioglu
Actor: Thomas Kellner
Ensemble: Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
Lighting design: Étienne Exbrayat
Video design: Lucia Schmidt
Set design: Aleksi Barrière and Étienne Exbrayat
Production: Helsinki Early Music Festival
Coproduction: Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) and La Chambre aux échos
In collaboration with: the Finnish National Opera
https://oopperabaletti.fi/en/repertoire/earthrise/
An article by Jari Kallio:
Compelling music theater in concentric layers of dream – Earthrise premiere concludes the Helsinki Early Music Festival
https://jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/compelling-music-theater-in-concentric-layers-of-dream-earthrise-premiere-concludes-the-helsinki-early-music-festival/
Jaman-Pahta (2023) - concert version
for folk singer, clarinetist, accordionist and percussionist.
Text: Noh Yamanba, Carl von Linné, Lady Murasaki, a spell from Northern Finland.
Fp: Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, October 6, 2024.
Charlotta Hagfors, Lauri Sallinen, Janne Valkeajoki and Lauri Pekkarinen.
http://www.klanghelsinki.fi/?p=2225
https://www.solistiyhdistys.fi/mitas-jos.html
She who saw things to come (2024)
for mezzo-soprano, harp, two violins and viola da gamba.
Text: Aleksi Barrière
Fp: Turku Music Festival, August 12, 2024.
Christina Herresthal, mezzo-soprano
Claire Moncharmont, harp
FiBO Players
https://sibeliusmuseum.fi/en/events/turku-music-festical-songs-of-judith/
Lacrime di Izanami (2023)
for 13-strings koto.
Fp: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Japan, January 13, 2024.
Nobutaka Yoshizawa
https://www.t-bunka.jp/en/stage/19084/
2023
in lucida umbra (2023)
for flute
Premiere: Camilla Hoitenga
Goethe Institut, Tokyo, Japan
December 10, 2023
https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/de/ver.cfm?event_id=25218638
WAYFARING MOON (2011/2023)
for Noh voice and Flute
Ryoko Aoki and Camilla Hoitenga
Goethe Institut, Tokyo, Japan
December 10, 2023
https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/ja/ver.cfm?event_id=25218638
JINKO - EXPANSION (2023)
for koto and string quartet
Premiere: Nobutaka YOSHIZAWA (Koto),
Saori NAKAZAWA (Violin), Kei SAKODA (Violin),
Michiko FUKUDA (Viola) and Koya SUZUKI (Cello).
Tokyo Concerts Lab., Japan
November 26, 2023
https://www.nobutaka-yoshizawa.com/recital.html
Nurikoboshi (柳宿)
for piano
Toshi Ichiyanagi in memoriam.
Premiere: Ogawa Itaru,
Tokyo Concerts Lab., Japan
October 30, 2023
https://tocon-lab.com/event/20231030
Seppia (2000/2008)
for violin
Egashira Maya
Halle Runde, Nagoya, Japan
October 9, 2023
https://mdpj.jp/runde/index.cfm
Cinq fontaines de la Fortune (2014)
for guitar and harpsichord
Rody van Gemert and Assi Karttunen
Tampere Guitar Festival,
Finland June 8, 2023
https://www.tgf.fi/rody-van-gemert-ja-assi-karttunen
SEISHIN (声心)
for Wind Orchestra and Percussion
Aichi University of the Arts Wind Orchestra, cond
Yuri Nitta Aichi University of the Arts, Japan
January 18, 2023
https://www.aichi-fam-u.ac.jp/news/topics_0001985.html
2022
Canon-greffe, hommage à J.S.Bach (2000)
for alto flute, viola and bass clarinet
Ensemble JungeMusik Berlin
Klangwerkstatt BerlinFestival für Neue Musik
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1
November 10, 2022
NAGORI (名残)
for soprano and 13 string koto
Premiere: Tomoko Kurosaki and Satomi Shimizu
Takasaki City Gallery November 4, 2022
https://www.facebook.com/Muisti.artist
das zur Ruhe kommen der Mondscheibe im Herzen (2019)
for guitar, violin and cello
NYKY Ensemble, Sibelius Academy
Helsinki Music Centre, Camerata Hall
October 14, 2022
https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/nyky-ensemble-kehomieli-body-mind/
Bushukan (2022)
for Shomyo singer and string trio
This work is dedicated to my dear teacher Kaija Saariaho.
Premiere: Suehiro Shoei and Ensemble Falke,
Tenno-ji, Tokyo, Japan
October 27, 2022
https://www.facebook.com/ens.falke/
Shibaraku (2022)
for clarinet and concert kantele
Premiere: Reetta Näätänen and Eva Alkula,
G Livelab, Tampere, Finland
September 3, 2022
https://www.glivelab.fi/tampere/events/tampereraw-itaa-etsimassa-62986347fc0c7dd2e273c3c6/
Usugôri & Ama no ukihashi
A performance for koto player and dancer
Premiere: Yoshizawa Nobutaka and Kobayashi Keiko,
Noh stage Tessen-kai, Tokyo, Japan
July 3, 2022
2021
Soleil noir (1999/ 2006)
for string quartet
Meta4 Quartet
November Music Festival. 's-Hertogenbosch
November 13, 2021
https://novembermusic.net/programma/meta4-2021
Ramento (2020/ 2021)
for guitar
Patrik Kleemola
What Ever Works! -festival. Turku, Finland
November 9, 2021.
http://www.wewfestival.com/program_oct21/
Hoshi Mandara cycle (2020)
miniatures for piano
Premiere: Kimihiro Yasaka, Aichi University of the Arts, Japan
June 26, 2021
https://www.aichi-fam-u.ac.jp/news/topics_019956.html
Earth Treasury (2018)
for mixed choir & 5 musicians
Premiere: Helsinki Chamber Choir, cond. Nils Schweckendiek
May 26, 2021
https://www.helsinginkamarikuoro.fi/en/home
erBa (2009)
for two guitars
Norio Sato and Yasuo Fujii
Hiroshima, Japan, May 3, 2021
http://fujiimusic.fc2.net/blog-entry-239.html
2020
Heart of Light (2020)
for clarinet, violin and piano
Premiere: Kaustinen Chamber Music Week, Finland. January 28, 2021
Lauri Sallinen, Kaija Saarikettu and Juho Pohjonen
http://kamarimusiikkiviikko.net/kontrasteja/
Lucis tuae radium (2020)
for mezzo-soprano, koto and piano
Premiere: Aichi University of the Arts, Japan. December 14, 2020
Tomoko Kurosaki, Satomi Shimizu and Yuko Kurosaki
https://www.aichi-fam-u.ac.jp/news/topics_019153.html
