Launched in 2020 the Global Musicianship Laboratory is a global community outreach program for innovative musicians in Finland.
We aim to support a future community of musicians who are concerned about sustaining their audience, being self-starters, trying to use music for the way it’s intended, and bringing people together. This program will allow the discovery of new possibilities and cultures, while connecting and making an impact within the community.
Our Activities:
Throughout the year, we will be actively engaging in the community within Finland in various outreach events. Next April, we will go to Cambodia for 2 weeks to engage with the community and have a cultural and musical exchange between Finland and Cambodia.
Collaborating Fellows:
Léna François-Poulet
Léna François-Poulet is a Basque classical accordion player born in 1996 in Bayonne (Baiona). At 6 years-old, she starts learning accordion at the Maurice Ravel Conservatory of Bayonne with the skillful musician Philippe de Ezcurra. After more than ten years studying in this Conservatory, she obtained her Final Diploma of Studies (DEM) in classical accordion with the highest honors.
She decided to pursue academic studies in San Sebastian (Donostia) at MUSIKENE, the University of Music in the Basque Country. After obtaining her Bachelor there, she chose to move to Finland for her Master’s studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland) where she had the chance to realize an Erasmus exchange in 2017/2018.
She is currently finishing her Master’s studies in this school in the classical accordion department with the Dr. Veli Kujala.
She is highly involved in teaching her instrument since an early age by getting several job opportunities as accordion teacher in music schools in France. In order to support her teaching career she is attending pedagogical courses at the Sibelius Academy.
In parallel of her studies, she is having an extended experience in performing concerts from solo concerts to diverse artistic formations and genres mainly in France, Spain, Finland, Germany and Norway. Among many other projects, she took part in 2018 to the Metric project organized by the European Union and traveled to Glasgow for seminars and concerts about improvisation. She performed with the Baroque Ensemble of Toulouse several times and in 2019, she initiated the project BIRD with the visual artist Calypso Debrot to build a bridge between live visual art and music. As a musician from a classical and academic background, Léna is particularly attached to take part to project with a crossover and multidisciplinary approach.
Neus Enrich Piris
Neus Enrich Piris started playing oboe when she was 11 years old. At the age of 20 she moved to Barcelona to study a Bachelor degree at the ESMUC. There, she started to play the English horn. During the studies she moved as an exchange student at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki for one year. She continued the studies at the Sibelius Academy in the Classical Oboe Master
degree. She had de opportunity to do three secondary subjects: Teacher’s Pedagogical studies, Global Music studies and Orchestral and ensemble playing. She graduated in June 2020.
In 2019 she got a grant for the Glomus Camp in Georgia, an International network for higher education in Global Music. There she cooperated in developing an international artist network for traditional, folk and contemporary music, having the chance to perform in Batumi and
develop multicultural workshops.
She has played in different countries as Spain, France, Germany, Tunis and Georgia, as well as participated with different professional orchestras in Helsinki as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Finnish National Opera.
She is part of the ‘Orquestra de Cambra Illa de Menorca (OCIM)’ from 2013 as a second oboe position.
Nowadays, she continues the training in Music and Movement for kids, developing her studies in Music therapy as well as having projects playing oboe and English horn.
Jesús Ortega
Several concert halls attest his national and international career as a guitarist and conductor, for instance, the Palau de la Música de Valencia, Auditorio de la diputación de Alicante, St. Martha’s Cathedral of Colombia or the Helsinki Music Center.
Prizes in guitar competitions endorse his performance quality, such as the Youth International Alhambra Guitar Competition or the International Guitar Competition José Tomás Villa de Petrer. Nevertheless, the most important prize has been the National Music Studies Award, given by the Spanish Education Ministry in 2014.
His performing education was accomplished at both the Conservatory of Alicante and the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki, tutored by the Spanish Maestro Ignacio Rodes. Other important guitarists have been part of his training, such as Manuel Barrueco, Ricardo Gallén, Fabio Zanon, Margarita Escarpa, Àlex Garrobé, Cecilio Perera, Miguel Trápaga or Otto Tolonen.
As a conductor, the lessons with the British conductor Colin Metters have been the most inspiring knowledge achieved in technique and instrumentation for the youth conductor, having his debut with the Cardiff Sinfonietta in 2017. In the same year, he took over the main musical
direction of the Arsis Chorus, having concerts around the south of Spain. Henceforth, he has conducted several orchestral and choral groups, as the RIAS Kammerkor or The Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir, even the South Spain Youth Orchestra and the Óscar Esplá Symphonic Orchestra.
Nowadays, he continues to specialise in choral conducting with the German maestro Nils Schweckendieck at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
Tero Bombero Rantanan
Rosa Parada
Rosa Parada is a Finnish born and Helsinki based violist and music pedagogue. She started her violin studies at the age of five in West Helsinki Music Institute but soon changed her main instrument to viola. She continued to professional music studies at the age of 18 in the Music Pedagogy degree program of Metropolia University for Applied Sciences. At the same time she did her Bachelor of Music degree in Sibelius-Academy University of The Arts and graduated from both in 2017. Currently Rosa is finishing her master’s degree in classical music performance in the Sibelius-Academy. In addition to studying in Finland, Rosa has also complemented her studies in Anna-Kreetta Gribajcevic’s viola studio in Hamburg University of Music and Theatre.
Rosa is an active orchestra and chamber musician and has performed with various orchestras and chamber music ensembles in Finland and Germany. In the season 2019 -2020 she worked in the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra.
As a viola teacher Rosa has worked with private students and in the El Sistema Finland foundation.
