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Avant-garde folk
violin & nyckelharpa

Meriheini Luoto

composer performer

commissioned piece for The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2. violin section, premiere 7.4.2024
Music for the play Prima Facie, dir. Susanna Kuparinen, premiere 18.4.2024
The Finnish National Theatre

"Meriheini Luoto performs the violin drone of “ILO OLI ILO OLI ILO” to a seated audience and it feels like you’re in different era in time, as Luoto plays to a visual backdrop reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s The Exploding Plastic Inevitable."

Ed Nash / The Line of Best Fit, 2023

Flow Festival review

"Most thrillingly, Finland's own Meriheini Luoto brought a spine-tingling intensity to frantic, frazzled, looped violin concoctions."

Rob Garratt / All About Jazz, 2023

Flow Festival review

"This is a violinist who not only has great technique but a clear idea what she wants to do with it. Her album progresses confidently from beautiful to scary and back again."

Clive Bell / The Wire, 2017

"Luoto’s innovative approach to tradition has resulted in a bold, and sometimes even intimidating, album that bows down to no one. The work of a composer with a strong voice of her own."

Teosto Prize jury, 2018

contact:

meriheini.luoto((at))gmail.com

+358 50 411 6306

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