In summer 2020 the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie asked me to write a fanfare for brass ensemble for their opening concert of the season, taking place in the following September in Saarbrücken. I decided to call this fanfare Valoa kohti - Towards the Light. In these turbulent and unusual times, that have presented quite many challenges also to our music world, it was my aim to write something uplifting and positive. In Beethoven’s music one can quite often find something, that could be described as...