About i dolci

i dolci creates and supports collaboration between dance, music and visual arts. The Helsinki-based association was founded in 2020 by harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson, choreographer Anna Mustonen and curator Riikka Thitz. In our projects we work together in varying formations.

Our projects include stage works, concerts, exhibitions, presentations and workshops that we organise and co-produce in collaboration with different art organisations. The unpredictable affections and intertwinings taking place when different art forms resonate with each other are essential to our work. i dolci is interested in what happens in between: in the vibrations and relations that happen in various encounters.

i dolci works through questioning and listening. We aim to rethink ways and conventions of working together as two artists and a curator as well as with different forms of art.

Henriksson, Mustonen and Thitz have been working together since 2017. Their first collaboration was Maria-vesper (Zodiak - Center for New Dance and Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, 2018).

Who we are

Marianna Henriksson

I am a harpsichordist based in Helsinki and in Berlin. I studied the harpsichord at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (Master of Music 2010) and Universität der Künste, Berlin with prof. Mitzi Meyerson (Konzertexamen with remark of excellence 2012).

I perform in Finland and all over Europe as a soloist and as a member of many different ensembles.I have been performing with e.g. Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Les Ambassadeurs (France), KORE Baroque Orchestra (Poland) and Barocco Boreale (Finland). I played in the European Union Baroque Orchestra for the seasons 2013-14, and during that period I performed in most of European countries with leaders such as Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Stefano Montanari, Rachel Podger and Gottfried von der Goltz. I have had the pleasure to play chamber music with many great European musicians like flutist Alexis Kossenko, gambist Vittorio Ghielmi, violinists Zefira Valova, Riccardo Minasi and Georg Kallweit and many others.

I am especially interested in performing early music in interdisciplinary contexts, for different kinds of audiences. My latest big production with choreographer Anna Mustonen was Maria-vesper, a choreographed version of Monteverdi’s Vespers as a collaboration of Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Zodiak - Centre for New Dance Helsinki in 2018. We were awarded the Finnish State Prize for Performing Arts 2018 for our work on the dialogue between music and dance.

I have also performed as harpsichordist at the world tour of the breakdance-show Flying Bach, touring in Europe, Japan, Russia and Chile. I’ve arranged early music with electronic music and folk music styles, performing with musicians such as trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, sound designer Tuomas Norvio, violinist Piia Kleemola and cittern player Petri Prauda. I have also premiered and recorded many new works for harpsichord (& ensemble) from composers such as Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Nemtsov, Tomi Räisänen, Riikka Talvitie and Olli Virtaperko.

My first solo album Frammenti del discorso amoroso containing early 17th century Italian harpsichord music was released in April 2018 on SibaRecords/Naxos. It was shortlisted for Finnish Broadcasting Company’s Album of the Year 2018.

I’m currently in the final stage of my studies at the Sibelius Academy aiming for a doctor’s degree on performance. I concentrate on early Italian 17th century music and its affectivity, performing it in interdisciplinary contexts. In the written part I introduce the Galenist Affect Theory and reflect its possible influences on contemporary HIP performance.

www.mariannahenriksson.com