Piia Komsi and Péter Nagy A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

She has an extremely versatile, bright voice and dazzling coloraturas – Finnish soprano Piia Komsi has played the roles of Brünnhilde (Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung), madam chief of secret police (György Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre), and she is one of very few to have performed both soprano roles in The Magic Flute (Pamina, Queen of the Night). She feels equally at home in Baroque operas as she does in experimental avant-garde, so it comes as no surprise to hear that several modern composers have written material expressly for her. Piia Komsi began her music studies as a cellist, she benefits from her instrumental background to this day, having appeared in several works in which she both sang and played cello. Her twin, Anu Komsi, has similar vocal skills. Esa-Pekka Salonen wrote the grand orchestral work Wing on Wing with them in mind; it has been performed all over the world since its premiere in 2004. Piia Komsi is in contact with several Hungarian composers, György Kurtág and Péter Eötvös among them, and in Budapest in 2013 she presented Zoltán Jeney’s song cycle Songs of Innocence and Experience set to poems by William Blake.