Tuomas has been hard at work with music for "The Italian Key", an English-language feature that was shot in Italy, India and UK during the last year. He is both a producer and the composer, so he has been very involved in many aspects of the production. In addition to that, he recently scored Finnish movie "The Princess" (Prinsessa), as well as Sergei Bodrov's ("Mongol" director) Russian comedy "Yakuza Girl" (both movies opened in early fall), and worked on several commercials in Scandinavia.

Tuomas recently finished a Belgian children's film, "Lemo" and is currently in pre-production of his first foray into producing, a movie called The Italian Key. The film will be shot on location in Italy, UK and India and will naturally be scored by Tuomas himself.

What's been up this fall... Arn - The Knight Templar sequel came out in Europe, and Genghis Khan continued to conquer new territories with Mongol! Tuomas has been working on Vivi Friedman's Driving Lessons and Belgian children's movie Limo, as well as a few other projects coming up next year...

The soundtrack of Mongol has been released by Varese Sarabande and is also available on iTunes!

The sequel for Scandinavia's biggest budget feature Arn - Knight Templar is in the works and Tuomas is composing and recording this month. Check out the movie's trailer:

Sergei Bodrov's Genghis Khan epic Mongol is coming out in the US and UK June 6th. Tuomas scored the movie last year with three different orchestras in London, St. Petersburg and Hamburg. Varese Sarabande is releasing the soundtrack CD.

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Tuomas is working on the Belgian TV drama Matrioshki, a 10 part series on human trafficking. The Quest for a Heart CD is out in Finland and is available also through CDbaby.

Sergei Bodrov's Genghis Khan epic Mongol made it to the shortlist of the five Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Picture! Listen to some of Tuomas' orchestral cues here - and a few more cues here!
Check out the trailer at distributor Picturehouse's website. A soundtrack is in the works, too!

Quest for a Heart is in theatres now!
Arn-Knight Templar is in theatres now!
I am on Holiday now!

Thanks for all of You who have been checking my site throughout the year.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and lots of happiness for the New Year 2008!

For the next year I promise something special...

Love and Peace!

Tuomas

Quest for a Heart is coming out in December - listen to some of the cues here! Tuomas has been recording music for Arn The Knight Templar all of last week in London with the LSO and will conduct the last sessions for the film on Nov 6th - a sneak pre-listen here...
The whole Arn score is available on iTunes as well!

Tuomas has been working on the Swedish epic movie "Arn - Knight Templar" and just finished recording the last cues for the animated feature "Quest for a Heart". He will record for Arn again at the end of October and beginning of November. On the classical side, his suite "Juri and Julia in Ostrobotnia" for orchestra and singers will premiere in Vaasa, Finland, on November 22nd.

Also recently out: coffee commercial "Fantasia" with Tuomas' music.

From the archives: Osuuspankki bank's feel-good Christmas commercial ... ;)

Tuomas will be recording first sessions for Knight Templar in London at Air Studios next week, and is off to Toronto shortly after that, to attend Mongol's world festival premiere on September 8th. To celebrate that, a sneak pre-listen of some music from the upcoming Ghenghis Khan epic.

Tuomas is working on two very different historical epic movies: the other one a story about the Crusades and a Swedish knight templar called Arn (trailer music not by Kantelinen), the other the movie about the youth of Genghis Khan, Mongol. Next weekend Tuomas will be attending SonCineMad in Madrid!

The soundtrack of The Year of the Wolf has been released and is available in shops in Scandinavia, as well as through several online shops internationally, such as CDbaby. Listen to some samples from the music here. It's also available for listen and download (album or individual tracks) on Apple iTunes!

A couple of cues from the upcoming animated feature "Quest for a Heart", recorded and mixed last week at Air Studios in London.

Tuomas is just back from London where he was recording music for the movie "The Year of the Wolf" at Air Lyndhurst Studios with the loyal - and brilliant - recording engineer Geoff Foster... A little sneak pre-listen of some of the cues here!

The European Film Academy has just announced the nominations for this years European Film Awards. Nominated for "EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2006" are Alberto Iglesias for VOLVER, Tuomas Kantelinen for ?IDEIST? PARHAIN (Mother of Mine), Dario Marianelli for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and Gabriel Yared & St?phane Moucha for DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others)!
Listen to some music from Mother of Mine here!

Sorry for the long silence! Tuomas has been busy this fall with several projects and will be recording lots of music for various movies and their trailers in London and Russia during the month of November. Before that he will attend the screening of the documentary Hacking Democracy (formerly known as Votergate) in NYC, prior to its broadcasting on HBO from November 2nd onwards. Read more about the documentary on the pitfalls of electronic voting, or check out the broadcasting schedule! Tuomas will also be introducing the opening film Mother of Mine with director Klaus H?r? at the AFI European Union film showcase in Washington D.C. on November 2nd.

Tuomas had a fun time in Madrid at the SonCineMad festival and thanks everyone he met there! He is still working on Career Day and just got to know about a very exciting new gig that is still top secret so be back for more! ;D
He will travel to Moscow to work on Quest For A Heart next week and will be in L.A. for most of August and September.

Tuomas is working now on an animated feature called "Quest for a Heart". He is finishing work on the documentary Votergate and the family film Career Day. He has been quite the festival junkie, visiting Cannes Film Festival, Annecy Festival for animated films and he is still looking forward to attending SonCineMad in Madrid during the last weekend of June...

From the movie Aleksis (about the life of Finnish national poet Aleksis Kivi), a happy tune to celebrate a "Ride Through the Countryside"!

This week's archive pick, a nice waltzy tune to celebrate spring: "Priest Goes Waltz" from the otherwise quite sad and melancholy film Redemption (1997).

The "Mother of Mine" and "The Promise" soundtracks by Kantelinen available now on iTunes.

Erik Wood's Cinematic Sound on Demand radio show features music from "Mother of Mine" and "The Promise" (select Hour 3 of the latest show). Thanks Erik!

And here's how to pronounce that difficult name: Can-te-linen (like the fabric)... :D

Tuomas' last name comes from "Kantele", that is actually an old traditional Finnish string instrument so it happens to be a very musical name too! You can see what the instrument looks like here, but of course that player looks nothing like Tuomas! Well, maybe in another 60 years...

From Tuomas' massive music archives a cue that he called himself "Bach and Mozart are my friends !"

From a few years back, a mobile operator's ad called "The Boy and the Cow" with music by Kantelinen, directed by Olli Saarela (Quicktime).

From the composer's archive this week, an animation song demo for The Emperor's New Clothes ! Those with sharp ears may hear Tuomas himself singing the Emperor's only line...

This week's archive pick: "Dating Ken Dolls" from Vivi Friedman's Fox Searchlab film Certainly Not A Fairytale.

From Tuomas' own archives this week: the Main Theme from the Swedish movie The Threat.

Serendipity! A few of Tuomas' recent compositions here for a few days, just for those who happen to cross paths...

Firstly, a little horror test, but nothing too horrible...

Then, from the film Pelican Man, a piece where the boy runs through Finnish countryside, that could be true Americana.

A sweet theme for a children's film, possibly?

And another one...

Can you still take it? A fifth little cue that's called Life!

Available only here and for a limited time... Maybe! ;)

Movie Music UK reviews the score of Mother of Mine and shortlists three Kantelinen scores on their Best of 2005 list. Another review is available here...

Mother of Mine wins Audience Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival! Also, on Sunday, it opens the Scandinavian Film Festival of L.A. In attendance at both events: producer Ilkka Matila, director Klaus H?r?, composer Tuomas Kantelinen.

Mother of Mine (MIR-101) and The Promise (MIR-102) soundtracks (by Miracle Records Finland) have been released in December 2005 and are available in shops in Finland and Sweden, as well as through CDbaby. Listen to a sample from Mother of Mine or The Promise.

Mother of Mine will be featured at the Palm Springs Film Festival and screens there on Jan 7th and 14th. It has completed a two-week run at select Laemmle theatres in Los Angeles and will be opening the Scandinavian Film Festival on January 15th at 2 p.m.
Here is what Gunnar Rehlin says about the music in his Variety review: "As in "Elina," Haro's direction is slow and somewhat old-fashioned, with Jarkko T. Laine's widescreen lensing often contrasting the wide open landscapes of southern Sweden with the murky interiors of the farmhouse, where time seems to stand still. In some sequences, all natural sound is removed, with a melancholy piano tune used instead, to striking effect."

Tuomas is working at the moment in his studio in Helsinki, Finland, on two projects - a martial arts film called Honor and a feature documentary about the malfunctioning voting machines in the US called Votergate. He has just finished scoring Matti, a biopic of the Finnish ski jumping champion Matti Nyk?nen, produced by Solar Films, and a trailer for upcoming Finnish horror film Martinin pirut.

Mother of Mine continues its winning streak and goes home with the Satellite Award for Best Foreign movie of the year! Tuomas was present at the luncheon at Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Saturday Dec. 17th - the award was accepted by producer Ilkka Matila who dedicated the film to all the mothers and children in war zones, since they are the innocent ones and often suffer the most. See what it's all about here!

The long-awaited "Mother of Mine" soundtrack has been released by Miracle Records and is now available in music stores in Finland and Sweden. The record has 25 orchestral cues from the film, with a total running time of nearly an hour.

Finnish premiere of "Mother of Mine" in Helsinki was on the 30th of September. The film tells the story of one of the 70.000 Finnish children that were moved to safety to neutral Sweden during WWII. Critics gave rave reviews and audiences seem to love the movie too, keeping the flow to cinemas steady for over 3 weeks already.

Renny Harlin's dark thriller "Mindhunters" is released on DVD. The movie, starring LL Cool J, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater and Katherine Morris features music by Tuomas Kantelinen.

"Mother of Mine", Klaus Haro's film with Tuomas Kantelinen music, is first runner-up for the prestigious People's Choice Audience Award at the Toronto film festival. Of all the 319 films screened at the festival, South African "Tsotsi" wins by a few votes. The film is also Finland's candidate to compete for "Best foreign language" Oscar.