Eemeli Solehmainen is a Finnish pianist and improviser based in Helsinki, Finland. He works actively in the experimental music scene of Helsinki collaborating with leading artists within its free improvisation and contemporary music circle. He holds a master’s degree in classical piano performance (2022) and contemporary improvisation (2024) from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. A versatile musician, he works as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and improviser and has performed in Finland, Estonia, France, Germany, Lithuania, and Belgium. He has won prizes at the Kuopio Piano Competition (2014, 2017) and the Antwerp International Improvisation Competition (2019, 2024).

Eemeli's activities include both solo performances and wide-ranging collaborative projects with various ensembles and artists. He has collaborated in concerts with, among others, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Kuopio City Orchestra and has performed as a soloist with the latter in 2013. In the field of contemporary music and improvisation he has worked in various projects, such as at the Improõhtu- series at EMTA (2025 and 2024) and the Music for Three Spaces- concert series in Helsinki (2024). Other performances include improvisations at the Improv Session- series in the Museum of Impossible Forms (2019) and at the Estonian Music Days festival (2016 and 2017) as well as performances at the Tallinn International Music Days festival (2019). In 2017 he performed with the Estonian national symphony orchestra in the Estonian premier of Gérard Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques under the baton of Pierre-André Valade and at the music festival AFEKT with conductor Baldur Brönnimann. As a sound artist he worked in the contemporary performance Mundane.Magic, directed by Katia Skylar, which was featured at the CPPM Manifestal contemporary performance festival in 2024. In 2022 he took part in the Music at Brel residency in Roquecor, France as a member of the ensemble Trio Kajo. In 2026 he produced the concert series ‘ImproLied’ featuring improvised lied-concerts with the singer-flutist Heliä Viirakivi in which poetry acts as inspiration for spontaneous improvisation, with the audience encouraged to bring their own texts to be intrepreted by the performers (with support from the city of Helsinki and Finnish Music Foundation).

In his artistic discipline Eemeli delves into the topic of communication and deep listening, the continuous dialogue between the performers, the space, and the listeners. A long time interest for him is the in-depth research into extended techniques inside the piano and the challenge of combining these with traditional playing on the keys, as well as the influence of traditional classical music forms within a free improvisation setting. Currently his main focus is on the implementation of synthesized sounds and the shaping of the sound of the piano through the use of transducers and analog synthesis.