First performance of Seppo Pohjola's Piano Quintet. Risto-Matti Marin with the Zagros String Quartet (Hannu Vasara and Kaisa Kallinen, violin, Camilla Vikman, viola, Miika Uuksulainen, cello).

Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo, saxophone, Seeli Toivio, cello and Risto-Matti Marin, piano in Kouta Hall, Kajaani. In the programme: Gunaropulos: Saxophone Concerto. Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel.

The Final Concert of Uuno Klami Composition Competition in Kotka. Christopher Culpo's "Mundus Imaginalis" for piano & Chamber orchestra (First performance) with Kymi Sinfonietta, conducted by Olari Elts, soloist Risto-Matti Marin.

Risto-Matti Marin’s recital in Cremona Mondomusica Festival (Artistic Director Roberto Prosseda). Programme: Wagner–Schelling, Wagner–Liszt, Matthew Whittall, Verdi–Liszt.

Solo performances by Risto-Matti Marin at the Mänttä Music Festival: Lauri Toivio: "Limber Litosphere", "General Sherman's Dream", "Caught in a Landslide" (As a part of a complete first performance of Toivio’s set of 15 preludes titled "Earth" with Niklas Pokki, Kalle Toivio, Fanny Söderström and Tuija Hakkila).

Recital in Kuopio Cathedral. Music by Faltin, Bach–Siloti, Hannikainen, Wagner–Liszt and Borodin–Kamensky. Risto-Matti Marin, piano. Risto-Matti Marin, piano.

20th Anniversary concert of Tuomisalo–Marin Duo in the Camerata Hall of the Helsinki Music Centre with saxophonist Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo. Programme including the first performance of Eero Hämeenniemi's Saxophone Sonata and the European premier of Matthew Whittall's Saxophone Sonata "Event Horizon". Related: Sixth Sense

Matthew Whittall: Piano Concerto “Nameless Seas” (European premiere). Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts. Risto-Matti Marin, piano. LISTEN: https://areena.yle.fi/1-4288660

Solo Recital in Pasimusic Festival in Kuopio Music Centre. Including the first performance: Juho Miettinen: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Winged Poets".

Matthew Whittall: “Leaves of Grass” – 12 Preludes for Piano after Walt Whitman. Risto-Matti Marin, piano. Inspired by Walt Whitman's verses, the preludes are not programmatic in nature, but rather Whittall's personal distillations of the atmosphere of each poem.