Contact: annasofia.anttonen@gmail.com
Kukkapilli – concert and installation
An interdisciplinary collaboration with artist Armi Teva. The project combines ceramic art with experimental instrument building, sound art, composition and performance.
Kukkapilli: Terde Installation & performances @ Galleria Kalleria, Helsinki 4.-15.6.2025
Photos: Henri Vogt 2025
Rauhan alkuja (2025)
Performance for young audience based on a children’s book by Essi Kummu. Performances in Valvesali Hall, Oulu, as part of Oulu August Festivals and Lokakuu festival 2025.
Anna-Sofia Anttonen (saxophone, electronics, composition)
Senni Eskelinen (kantele, electronics, composition)
Jenni Kinnunen (narrator, dramaturgy)
Johanna Pelkonen (staging, costumes)
Vesivoimalaitokset –Pyhäkoski / Upcoming in 2026
Site-spesific composition for saxophone quartet and electronics. The 20-minute long work is to be performed at Pyhäkoski hydropower plant on the bottom Oulu river, at a series of experimental opera works part of Oulu2026 European culture capital -programme in collaboration with the Northern Opera Company. I will compose the work together with a Finnish sound artist / sound engineer Tuukka Tervo. You can listen to my composition Ala-Utos related to this project here.
Tektonik
We compose experimental music for saxophone and electronics together with sound engineer/artist Tuukka Tervo. In our creative process, we utilize techniques such as improvisation, algorithmic methods, sound synthesis, and spectral music techniques. We combine electronic sounds with acoustic playing. Our music examines the relationship between pitch and noise and is characterized as something between ambient, noise, contemporary music, and drone music. In March and April 2024, we were artist-in-residence at the Old Mine Residency in Outokumpu and performed at OutoJazz festival 11.5.2024. At the moment we’re working on our first album release. Listen to Tektonik in SoundCloud here
Uuden musiikin lokakuu
Co-Artistic Director of Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival together with composer Tuomas Kettunen 2023-2024. Program of 2024 is out: lokakuu.fi
Trio WAS+: Riitti
kuvitus: Miia Puustinen
Trio WAS+ is a group founded in 2021, whose members are Anna-Sofia Anttonen (saxophones), Aida Salakka (double bass), Frin Wolter (accordion), and Tuukka Tervo (electronics). In the group’s first project, RIITTI, the program includes the band’s own arrangements of Hildegard von Bingen’s musical drama Ordo Virtutum, a commissioned work by Juhani T. Vesikkala, and music by Gérard Grisey and Jimmy López.
Saxtronauts – Avaruusseikkailu (Space Adventure)
Saxtronauts is an exploratory saxophone ensemble with the purpose of bringing high-quality art music to a variety of audiences in an open-minded way. The ensemble’s approach is to work seamlessly in collaboration with various actors in the fields of science and art. Saxtronauts arranges works from different eras for saxophones, commissions new music from contemporary composers, and performs original pieces composed for the saxophone. In Space Adventure concert series the ensemble has performed in observatories, science centers and surrounding concert halls, in different parts of Finland.
Lisätietoa Avaruusseikkailusta: www.saxtronauts.com
Hildegardin puutarhassa
Experimental concert series in Helsinki’s public gardens, combining music of Hildegard of Bingen, original compositions and visual art. Collaboration with saxophonist/composer Nanna Ikonen and visual artis Sanna Hellikki. www.hildegardinpuutarhassa.com
Kaija Saariaho & Kaaos Ensemble Composition Masterclass
5.-9.10.2022 Uuden musiikin lokakuu, Oulu
sf(ÄÄRI)
My final master’s exam at the Sibelius Academy, sf(ÄÄRI) including a world premiere performance of Matilda Seppälä’s piece ”Feedback” for tenor saxophone, live electronics, EEG sensor and a board. Listen to Feedback here.
Experimentations with sensors, music and human reactions
We have started a very exiting project with composer Matilda Seppälä, and first part of it got it’s first performance a few weeks ago in Helsinki Music Center. I was wearing sensors that were measuring my skin’s conductance, and the level of stress/calmness in my body was conducting the intensity of Matilda’s music. For example, when I was meditating on stage, the music was pretty calm. But when Matilda came to touch my hand for example, the music also reacted to that.
This will be an interesting journey, and we might learn something new about performing. The audience will get under the performer’s skin, because it is impossible to hide one’s physical reactions when performing with sensors.
We will continue experimenting with sensors and this type of performances soon! We are curious to see what happens when we add an instrument to this! Matilda will compose a piece for tenor saxophone, electronics and EEG-sensors for my final exam at the Sibelius-Academy. Can’t wait!
Matilda Seppälä: Collection of Social Games- Part I, Pictures taken by Ian Gaplichnik @Black Box 11.4.2019
Anna-Sofia Anttonen 