The ability to think and feel on a conscious level is what makes us humans differ from other species on earth. This is also what Cecilia Damström (b.1988) tries to achieve with her compositions; to make people think and feel. Born into a multicultural family in Helsinki, languages and the possibility of combining languages, have always appealed to her while composing. With a background as a classical pianist and with theatre as an interest, also harmony, direction, a sense of drama, and expressivity are always present in her music. Her pieces have gotten a lot of media attention, for example her 30 minute global warming themed Requiem for our Earth for female choir, electronics and video projection (by Marek Pluciennik) was described in Hufvudstadsbladet with the words “sounded marvellously from the beginning to the end while shaking all of humanity”. Also the premiere of Nixus got big acclaim in the tabloid Karjalainen: “Damström’s use of the orchestra is impressive. Thus, it is also reminiscent of what a spectacular “instrument” the symphony orchestra is in skilled hands. There is so much gunpowder in Damström’s musical language that there even is to spare. Like it or not, the essential thing is that Nixus is not meaningless music but leaves a mark of remembrance. That is the thing that matters.” After her debut with the Radio Symphony Orchestra the biggest Finnish tabloid Helsingin Sanomat wrote “You could call her the Greta Thunberg of music”.