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YKSNA, Ltd., was founded on April 11, 1999, upon successful completion of its First International Kilpinen Art Song Competition and Symposium at Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The Society was incorporated in Wisconsin, USA, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt, cultural, artistic and educational organization on January 5, 2000, to honor and cherish the artistic memory of the great Finnish composer Yrjö Kilpinen. YKSNA, Ltd., promoted art song from all countries, especially the works of Kilpinen and other Nordic composers. It held international art song competitions and symposia in 1999, 2002 and 2005. These have helped several competitors, not just the winners, develop serious international singing careers. Click here to read about them. NOTICE: After seeking a new home for over three years and after having been turned down in February, 2008, by the 15th potential new owner, YKSNA, Ltd., regretfully announces that it has entered the process of dissolution. Its physical assets and website are being donated to the Finnish American Heritage Center and Historical Archive at Finlandia University in Hancock, Michigan. There they will be curated and maintained for use by interested singers, pianists, composers, music historians and researchers. To return to the Finlandia University Finnish American Heritage Center and Historical Archive Web site, click here Its financial assets are being donated to Finlandia University and to several Madison, WI, area non-profit music organizations for which its founder, the late baritone, Dr. Vernon Sell, sang and/or conducted. Dissolution should be completed by June, 2008. Thanks to all who have supported YKSNA, Ltd., since its beginning. Peter Halverson, Baritone, with Philip Everingham, Collaborative Pianist, performed a most successful and rewarding concert tour in Finland, October, 2007. It was one of the prizes Peter won in the 2005 Kilpinen Competition. For the tour, they performed songs by Kilpinen, Grieg, Merikanto, Barber, Blitzstein, Scheer and arrangements of American Folk Songs by Kohn. This photo shows, l-r, Petteri Salomaa, Peter, Philip and Gustav Djupsjöbacka.  An Evening of Song, February 17, 2007, |
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