PROJECTS & ENSEMBLES
Vilma Jää Sunset, by Mikko Malmivaara
SOLO MUSIC
Vilma Jää
Vilma Jää’s solo music shifts between acoustic and electronic sounds, combining instruments typical of folk music such as kantele, harmonium, hurdy-gurdy and fiddle with synthetic beats as Finno-Ugric traditions flirt with pop aesthetics. Vilma Jää released her debut album Kosto (Revenge) in October 2023. Vilma Jää creates her solo music together with producer-composer Mikko Renfors.
live band:
Pilvi Kekkonen, live electronics & backing vocals
Hanna Ryynänen, kantele
Vilma Jää Sunset, by Mikko Malmivaara
OPERA
Innocence by Kaija Saariaho
as Student 1 (Markéta)
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (2021)
Finnish National Opera (2022)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (2023)
Dutch National Opera (2023)
San Francisco Opera (2024)
Rehearsals for Innocence 2020, by Aleksi Barrière
Jäine, by Terri Lilja
ENSEMBLES
Jäine
(2019–)
Fresh runolaulu vocal ensemble
Members: Vilma Jää, Erika Hammarberg, Anne-Mari Pitkänen and Laura Maria Rinta
Jäine, by Terri Lilja
FORMER ENSEMBLES
mammantytöt!
(2015–2019)
Glitter & trad.!
Vilma Jää: voice, whistling, harmonium, fiddle, piano
Laura Maria Rinta (née Petäjä): voice, whistling, double bass, cello
mammantytöt! in Stairs, by Henri Rinta-Koivula
SibA Folk Big Band, by Jimmy Träskelin
SibA Folk Big Band
(aboard 2015–2020)
More is More!
SibA Folk Big Band, by Jimmy Träskelin
Musta lammas
(aboard 2016–2018)
Irresistible grooves and delicious soundscapes, made by 23 voices
