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Lindberg was one of the leading lights, alongside EsaPekka Salonen,Jouni Kaipainen and Kaija Saariaho, of the generation of Finnish composers who came to prominence in the 1980s. It was while working among such colleagues as these with the Toimii and Avanti! ensembles that Lindberg encountered...

I wrote the Clarinet Concerto for Kari Kriikku whom I've known since the late 1970s: he studied harmony with me at the Sibelius Academy. So after 25 years I think we've developed quite an understanding - and I couldn't have written it without him. During the summer I work at my cottage on an...