Projects
Kårot
Kårot (Kånala-Rotterdam) is a duo founded in 2025 by Nea-Maria Korpelainen (Master of Music Codarts Rotterdam, Master of Music SibA Helsinki) and Joonas Ojajärvi (Master of Music SibA). The project was born from a shared need to create music that authentically reflects its members, free from stylistic preconceptions.
Both musicians have strong backgrounds in Nordic contemporary folk music and have also studied a variety of musical styles outside the Nordic countries. Drawing from these influences, they create rich, nuanced instrumental music rooted in and reshaping Nordic folk traditions—music that lives and breathes in the moment.
Nea-Maria Korpelainen holds two master’s degrees in music (Codarts Rotterdam, SibA Helsinki) and is at the moment working as a teacher in violin in her hometown of Rotterdam.
Joonas Ojajärvi, after graduating as a Nordic Master in Folk Music (Siba Helsinki) has been performing around Finland, bringing traditional folk music to schools and retirement homes.
Kenturah’s Kitchen, BLESZ & Strings
All The World’s A Stage
With jazz as its starting point, ‘All the World’s a Stage’ is a journey through the broad repertoire of Kenturah’s Kitchen enriched with the ‘Strings’ and the warm lyrical excesses of BLESZ.
The result is a mix of jazz, hip-hop and ‘Spoken Word’, with a load of positivity and connection. The artists immerse the spectator in a new dimension, that includes everyone. With beautiful and compelling compositions, combined with positive and connecting lyrics, this formation wants to inspire, motivate and enchant its audience! The themes and energy in the songs are intended to make the audience the focal point and provides a unique experience.
Base & a Flyer
Base & a Flyer is a duo combining the rare ends of the string family. Double bass in the hands of Alexander Vocking gets an agile and passionate treatment whereas the highs are taken care of by Nea-Maria Korpelainen with her violin and voice. This ensemble started as an experiment in 2018 when Alexander and I wanted to find out how a double bass and a violin would sound like bare, alone and together, without other instruments. The presumption was that the bass would keep its role as a base and violin would fly high. But would it be possible to break these prejudices and become free in such a lineup?
Perpetuum Lokomobile
The mind’s silver screen is glowing by a projection of a steam powered road roller, which follows a line of fossilised footsteps of ancient musicians all over the chaos-torn world.
The mind’s silver screen is glowing by a projection of a steam powered road roller, which follows a line of fossilised footsteps of ancient musicians all over the chaos-torn world.
Their last hope is a naive belief that they’re looking for a good thing. Something which could be used to tie the ruptured edges of the world back together. In the soundtrack joy and sorrow finds each other from a standstill moment in the middle of the mayhem.
Blæbrigði
Blæbrigði is a musical collaboration driven by our passion for merging classical and folk sounds. Featuring the rich tones of the cello and the expressive charm of the violin, our duo specializes in creating original arrangements that blend the traditions of Scandinavian Folk with a modern touch of baroque.