Markus Kuikka - Fantasias For Viola da Gamba (CD)

Release Date: 01/01/21

Markus Kuikka started playing viola da gamba after hearing one well-known Catalan viola da gamba player in Helsinki in t

Markus Kuikka started playing viola da gamba after hearing one well-known Catalan viola da gamba player in Helsinki in the early 1990s. From that inspiration sprang his efforts to learn the instrument, ultimately lead-ing to a 2009 doctorate from the Sibelius Academy. “Part of the good fortune that I have had in performing premieres of freshly composed works is in its inherent unpredictability. Such is the case with the present recorded works, which were published almost three hundred years ago.'