Sibbe Live!: 4th Line
19.03.2025 19:00 – 20:00
Standard price 15€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Students/ pensioners/ children 12€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
4th Line is a quartet of Finland’s leading female French horn players formed in autumn 2016, whose musicians work in Finland’s best orchestras: Tanja Nisonen and Mervi Huttunen are musicians of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Pauliina Koskela works in the Tampere Philharmonic and Maria Luhtanen is currently with Sinfonia Lahti. The quartet works professionally and to a high standard, focusing especially on rarely performed works.
In June 2022, 4th Line released the album “Four impulses” (Alba Records ABCD 516), an album of Scandinavian French horn quartet works. The album received excellent reviews in various media and considerable international attention.
Tanja Nisonen is a multi-role French horn player. She is a member of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, a teacher of French horn at the Turku Music Academy (AMK) and the Brass Academy, and a doctoral student at the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts, where her subject is women composing for the French horn. She is an active chamber musician and also performs regularly as a soloist. Nisonen is also active in associations, chairing both the Finnish Horn Club and Artsopa, the chamber music association she founded. Through all these roles, Nisonen finds it important to promote, develop and expand the knowledge of French horn playing.
Pauliina Koskela started playing the French horn at the Keskisen-Uudenmaan musiikkiopisto under Jukka Kasper. From there she went on to the Sibelius Academy, where she completed her A-levels in 2005 with Erja Joukamo-Ampuja and graduated with a Master of Music degree a few years later. In 2000 she won first prize in the French horn category at a national wind competition in Lahti. Koskela has worked as a freelance musician with the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti and Helsinki City Theatre. In spring 2011 she joined the Tampere Philharmonic as a full-time member.
Maria Luhtanen started playing the French horn at the Music Institute of South Ostrobothnia with Seppo Istukaissaari. Her studies continued at the Sibelius Academy and the Hanover Music Academy, where her teachers were Erja Joukamo-Ampuja and Markus Maskuniitty. He has subsequently completed her studies with Esa Tapani. Luhtanen is an active and versatile musician who has worked regularly for several years with Sinfonia Lahti, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kymi Sinfonietta and the Finnish National Opera Orchestra. Luhtanen also works on musicals at the Helsinki City Theatre and the Svenska Teatern. Luhtanen is a member of the brass quintet BrassQ and the French horn quartet 4 Line.
Mervi Huttunen studied French horn in Finland with Esa Tapani and Erja Joukamo-Ampuja and completed her studies in Germany with Markus Maskuniitty and in Norway with Frøydis Ree Wekre. Mervi Huttunen graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 2007 with excellent marks and completed her Master of Music degree in 2008. After her studies, her work took her abroad: first to Oslo, Norway, to Den Norske Oper and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and then to Lubeck Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany. The years in Oslo and Lubeck left Huttunen with a love of opera music – specifically, of playing it and being part of the big machinery of opera. Work brought Huttunen back to Finland in 2011, to the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, of which she has been a permanent member since 2012. In addition to her work with the orchestra, Mervi Huttunen works as a teacher at the Turku Conservatory.