The Music of MEG
Previous: photo by Matti Hämäläinen Below: Matti Hämäläinen (left) plays a duet Opposite: Seppo Ahlfors (rear left) and students during construction of the magnetically shielded room
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Every Christmas back home in Finland, the Martinos Center’s Matti Hämäläinen gathers with friends for an evening of performing chamber music. He plays both flute and piano on these occasions. In more recent years he has explored the repertoire for “piano four hands” with his former classmate Lauri Malmi, now a professor of computer science at their alma mater, Aalto
University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology). Whatever the instrument or configuration of musicians, Hämäläinen appreciates the combination of talent, skill and inter-player cooperation that goes into a successful performance. Not only do you need to play well, you need to play well together. Only then can you make truly beautiful music.