IIRO RANTALA
NEW TRIO

Virtuoso Finnish pianist/composer Iiro Rantala
returns to Australia for the 8th time in January'08 and now with
his IIRO RANTALA NEW TRIO to the Sydney Festival - with rising guitar
star MARZI NYMAN and extaordinary beatboxer FELIX ZENGER. IIRO is
best known as the founder and pianist of Trio Töykeät,
Finland's internationally best known jazz ensemble, which has given
over 2,500 performances in nearly 60 countries, recorded for Blue
Note, and visiting Australia on six occasions. Now with fast new
rhythms, startingly original music and distinctive musical voices,
the IIRO RANTALA NEW TRIO is jazz at its exhilarating and adventurous
best: definitely entertaining, zany, witty, beautiful, technically
brilliant, unconventional, occasionally wicked, but always uncompromising.
Iiro Rantala is a piano sensation, who confidently and zanily crosses
all musical boundaries, and has performed in small and large ensembles,
solo and with symphony orchestras, and early in 2006 released his
very own piano concerto with the Tapiola Sinfonietta. His extensive
discography includes the eight discs of Trio Töykeät (G'Day,
Jazzlantis, Sisu, Kudos, Music!, High Standards, Wake and One Night
in Tampere Live).
visit: www.iirorantala.com
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