Hanna Hohti & Anna Kuvaja
Biography Hanna Hohti & Anna Kuvaja
Hanna Hohti
enjoys immersing herself in the expressive worlds of different musical eras and creating multifaceted concert programmes designed to appeal to broad audiences.
Alongside her exploration of rarely performed chamber music with Anna Kuvaja on period instru- ments, she is also deeply engaged in the performance of electro- acoustic music. Her solo perfor- mance Seidr, premiered at the 2022 Helsinki Festival, was described in the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet as an “act of artistic bravery”.
Since 2017, Hanna has expanded the chamber music scene in Tapiola district of the Greater Helsinki region by joining forces with her friends to run a concert series, Kino Soi!, in a 1950s cinema.
Hanna Hohti completed her Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the guidance of Garfield Jackson. Her work has been generously supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Kone Foundation and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
Anna Kuvaja
A versatile soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player, Finnish pianist Anna Kuvaja is also an active fortepianist and an assured performer of contemporary repertoire. Anna has given recitals both at home and abroad, made a number of recordings for the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) and appeared at numerous festivals large and small.
In addition to her career as a concert pianist, Anna has taught at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki since 2010. In 2016, Anna published her first solo album, Fluvial, on the Alba Records label. BBC Music Magazine awarded it a full five stars and described it as “a stunning debut disc… powerful Schubert”. In 2022 Alba released Soiréestücke, a chamber music album with the clarinettist Lauri Sallinen, which was also well- received.
Anna Kuvaja studied piano at the Sibelius Academy with Tuija Hakkila and Liisa Pohjola. She was an exchange student at the CNSM in Paris with Henri Barda and further honed her skills as a member of the Zurich Opera Orchestra academy.
