Awake Percussion was founded in Helsinki in 2016. The group’s aim is first and foremost to give audiences the opportunity to hear the most fascinating music of our times, performed with the utmost conviction. Commissioning new music and working in close collaboration with composers is a central part of the ensemble’s artistic vision. Awake Percussion’s unique and artistically coherent concert programmes are all constructed around new works commissioned by the group and Finnish premieres of other works. The quartet of players comprises the four board members of the Percussion Chamber-Music Society, an organisation whose aims include furthering audiences’ awareness of percussion music and providing percussion teaching right across Finland.