Sonja Vertainen

This warm but firm thought sums up Sonja Vertainen´s journey as a musician. In 1996 when she was just two weeks old, she was sleeping in the accordion class in her “second home” at the Ostrobothnian Conservatory in Kokkola. The room was filled with the intense playing of an accordiontrio, and the piece was ,mutta by Jukka Tiensuu. 22 years later she stepped on the stage of Camerata Hall to perform the same piece with her own trio in Jukka Tiensuus 70th anniversary concert at the Music center in Helsinki. To Vertainen music feels like home because it quite literally is home. She was raised by two accordionist parents who are also teachers of the instrument so her childhood home was built on music. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Sonja Vertainen is a versatile accordion-