Our projects

Project name	Project time	Funder
A classroom of one’s own Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.	09/2022-08/2025	Academy of Finland
Aino and Heikki The research examines Aino Ackté’s and Heikki Renvall’s correspondence.		The Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Cantatrices Achté The research concentrates on a correspondence that reveals points of view on the conventions of opera culture.		Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, the foundation of Emil Aaltonen & Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse
Control and Tax: The Licensing and Taxing Systems of Music and Musicians in late Habsburg Prague, 1894–1918 The research project addresses neglected aspects of the music culture of Prague.		Otto A. Malm Foundation & Kone Foundation
Finnish National Ballet 100 Aino Kuokkanen researches the history of the Finnish National Ballet.		Niilo Helander Foundation Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Finnish Cultural Foundation
Foreign Study Trips of Finnish Organists The research project lead by Peter Peitsalo explores Finnish organ art.
Letter Correspondence by Jean Sibelius and Aino Ackté The research project examines correspondence between the years 1899 and 1936.	01/2018-01/2020	The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland
Microhistorical Perspectives on Female Involvement in Restaurant Music in the Late Nineteenth Century in Europe The research project by Nuppu Koivisto examines female musicians.
Music and Sound in the History of Finnish non-fiction Cinema Research project by Kaarina Kilpiö explores sound elements in cinema.
Music, Diplomacy and Cold War Meri Herrala's research project examines musician's role in the Cold War.
Research of grand-scale forms during the Classical era based on contemporary theoretical writings Veijo Murtomäki's second topic of the research outlines the political connections of Central European composers in the 19th century as well as those of the Finnish music scene.
Tallinn 67 -Jazzfestival Heli Reimann's research project focuses on the history of jazz festival Tallinn 67.		Kone Foundation
Tanssitaiteen merkitys ja vastaanotto sota-ajan viihteenä	07/2023-06/2023	Suomen Kulttuurirahasto
The Evolvement of the Musical Life in Tampere 1900-1940 Music researcher Markus Mantere examines musical life in Tampere.
The History of Playing the Piano in Finland The research project outlines the culture of piano playing, its history, conventions and its musical heritage.	01/2014
The Music-Related Gestures Assi Karttunen's research project examines musical gestures.
Translocal Cultural Fields – Music as a Cultural and Economic Enterprise in the Four Biggest Cities in Finland, 1900–1939 The study lead by Vesa Kurkela examines musical activity in the four biggest cities in Finland in the first four decades of the 20th century.		Academy of Finland

A classroom of one’s own

Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik explores women piano teachers, intersectionality, and the gendered power structures of musical life in Helsinki and Tallinn between 1861 and 1924.

09/2022-08/2025

Academy of Finland

Aino and Heikki

The research examines Aino Ackté’s and Heikki Renvall’s correspondence.

The Alfred Kordelin Foundation

Cantatrices Achté

The research concentrates on a correspondence that reveals points of view on the conventions of opera culture.

Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, the foundation of Emil Aaltonen & Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse

Control and Tax: The Licensing and Taxing Systems of Music and Musicians in late Habsburg Prague, 1894–1918

The research project addresses neglected aspects of the music culture of Prague.

Otto A. Malm Foundation & Kone Foundation

Finnish National Ballet 100

Aino Kuokkanen researches the history of the Finnish National Ballet.

Niilo Helander Foundation
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation

Foreign Study Trips of Finnish Organists

The research project lead by Peter Peitsalo explores Finnish organ art.

Letter Correspondence by Jean Sibelius and Aino Ackté

The research project examines correspondence between the years 1899 and 1936.

01/2018-01/2020

The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

Microhistorical Perspectives on Female Involvement in Restaurant Music in the Late Nineteenth Century in Europe

The research project by Nuppu Koivisto examines female musicians.

Music and Sound in the History of Finnish non-fiction Cinema

Research project by Kaarina Kilpiö explores sound elements in cinema.

Music, Diplomacy and Cold War

Meri Herrala's research project examines musician's role in the Cold War.

Research of grand-scale forms during the Classical era based on contemporary theoretical writings

Veijo Murtomäki's second topic of the research outlines the political connections of Central European composers in the 19th century as well as those of the Finnish music scene.

Tallinn 67 -Jazzfestival

Heli Reimann's research project focuses on the history of jazz festival Tallinn 67.

Kone Foundation

Tanssitaiteen merkitys ja vastaanotto sota-ajan viihteenä

07/2023-06/2023

Suomen Kulttuurirahasto

The Evolvement of the Musical Life in Tampere 1900-1940

Music researcher Markus Mantere examines musical life in Tampere.

The History of Playing the Piano in Finland

The research project outlines the culture of piano playing, its history, conventions and its musical heritage.

01/2014

The Music-Related Gestures