Concerts & collaborations

Photo credits: Elisa Hurmerinta, Tuittu Teivainen,  Vladimir Ichtchenko

Stefanie Tuurna performs regularly with various collaborators. She gives duo concerts together with her partner, winner of the Voice of Finland 2021, tenor Kalle Virtanen, who shares her passion for various styles of music, such as classical, evergreens, jazz standards, film music and famous hits of pop and rock music.

She also enjoys playing Argentine tango, which she has performed together with Seinäjoki City Orchestra and artists like bandoneonist Mercedes Krapovickas, with whom she founded the surrealist duo Estación Tangerine. She's also a member of another experimental group called TangoDalí, which includes tenor Kalle Virtanen, violinist Varpu Heikinheimo and saxophonist Sampo Kasurinen.

Tuurna has performed together with many classical improvisers, such as Valerie Lassfolk, Ville Komppa, Isa Halme and Juulia Salo. The most ambitious collaboration has been the doctorate project of cellist Pauliina Haustein, who finished her doctoral dissertation in Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2022. In her doctorate concerts the group - consisting of Haustein, Tuurna, violinist Simone Strohmeier and soprano Adaya Peled - aimed at re-introducing stylistic classical improvisation and modelling what the concert culture was like still roughly a hundred years ago, when classical musicians still were improvising.