Maria Kalaniemi - Maria Kalaniemi flac album

Maria Kalaniemi (born 1964) is a Finnish accordionist. She was originally classically trained, but has become mostly as folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy. Groups she is or has been involved with are: Niekku, formed during the years at the Sibelius Academy: Before they disbanded, they recorded three albums.

Maria Kalaniemi ‎– Maria Kalaniemi. Label: Olarin Musiikki ‎– OMCD 40. Format: CD, Album. Mixed By – Jaakko Kiikeri (tracks: 1), Maria Kalaniemi (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11), Pekka Witikka (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11), Timo Alakotila (tracks: 2 to 5, 7 to 11). Nyckelharpa – Arto Järvelä (tracks: 6). Painting – Hannu Tolvanen.

This seamless instrumental disc by Sibelius Academy professor Maria Kalaniemi delivers an object lesson on the expansiveness and expressiveness of the accordion. She transmutes a local melody into an Argentinean tango on one cut and mixes in a thumb piano on another, courtesy of Ottopasuuna's Kimmo Pohjonen, but the willingness to bend boundaries takes nothing away from the essential Finnish nature of the material.

Maria Kalaniemi (born May 27, 1964 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish accordionist. She was classically trained, gaining her MMus from the Sibelius Academy in 1992, but has become mostly known as a folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy. Ensembles she is or has been involved with are: Niekku, formed during the years at the Sibelius Academy: before they disbanded, they recorded three albums.