EKKI MINNA

EKKI MINNA performs, curates and collaborates. Through their multifaceted interdisciplinary approach, they discover and share genre-fluid avenues of expression and communication. Described as ‘self-consciously quirky’ and ‘melt[ing] us all, via choreography, into another plane altogether’, they consciously expand the accordion and cello formation beyond instrumentation into something introspective and conscious.

Through their collaborative compositional methodology, the duo takes a hands-on approach to co-creation with composers and artists, from conception to realisation, often with a loose determination and a raw experimentalism free from boundaries. Combining media such as documentation, multimedia, dance, choreography, and light design, they often compose interludes curating an overarching audio-visual experience.

Their collaborations have included a lot of Angels to Consider with Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, premiered at Dark Music Days, Iceland; the choreographed installations A( )part& B(e)part co-composed with Magnúsdóttir; augmented performances in dialogue with Johannes Kreidler and Sarah Nemtsov; and productions of Stefan Prins’s Generation Kill alongside K!ART. The duo recently made a reappearance at the Dark Music Days festival, as well as premiering new commissions by Magnúsdóttir, Jeppe Just Christensen and Mads Emil Dreyer in their self-curated project Augmentations .

EKKI MINNA is currently collaborating with composers Matthew Grouse and Niklas Ottander on large-scale works exploring extra-musical elements and integrated multimedia, with a planned performance at MINU Festival in 2025.