Aurora Hentunen is a young diverse Finnish pianist and composer. Hentunen's third album 'Little Further' featuring the GRAMMY award-winning bass player Linda May Han Oh was released in October 2024 on Eclipse Music. Little Further reflects the state of being during the last few years, forced collective stagnation and uncertainty of the future. However, it gently guides the listener to continue their journey and to believe in tomorrow. Hentunen assembled her quartet at the beginning of 2017 while studying in Amsterdam. Debut album ‘Second Spring’ was released in April 2018 and her second album ‘Frost’ in August 2019, both getting excellent reviews around the world. Her music has been described as very compositional and the band as distinctive, led by mature young musicians. The band is considered as one of the rising stars in the Nordic Jazz scene. Aurora Hentunen Quartet became quintet as the tenor saxophonist Ukko Heinonen joined the band in 2020. Hentunen has been supported by many known Finnish cultural foundations, and her work can also be heard on commissioned Big Band and string ensemble pieces. ”The debut album was already great, and the second one ensures that Hentunen isn’t going to come down from the sharpest peak of Finnish Jazz.” www.aurorahentunen.com www.instagram.com/aurorahentunen