Congratulations to the wonderful guitarist Petri Kumela for receiving the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE’s Album of the Year 2020 award for his Small Creatures — A Musical Bestiary! Honored that my chamber music album with the Aizuri Quartet and Adrienne Kim was shortlisted alongside the works of composers Sid Hille and Antti Auvinen; the Duke Ellington interpretations of soprano Anu Komsi and guitarist Marzi Nyman; and baritone Arttu Kataja’s selection of Lieder.
Ilari Kaila, composer 