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.

Charles-Valentin Alkan: Piano Sonata Op. 33 Ilmari Hannikainen: Piano Sonata Op. 1 Einari Marvia: Piano Sonata Op. 16 Pianist Dmus Risto-Matti Marin and music engraver Jani Kyllönen have studied all surviving manuscript sources of Hannikainen's and Marvia's sonatas, resulting in worthy editions of both great works for piano, published by Fennica Gehrman in 2019. Related recording: Hidden Treasures