EKKI MINNA performs, curates, and collaborates. Via their multifaceted interdisciplinary approach, they discover and share genre-fluid avenues of expression and communication. Described as “self-consciously quirky” and “melt[ing] us all, via choreography, into another plain altogether”, they consciously expand the accordion & cello formation beyond instrumentation into something introspective and conscious.

Through their collaborative compositional methodology, the duo takes a hands-on approach to co-creation with composers and artists, from conception to realisation, often with a loose determination and a raw experimentalism free from boundaries. Combining mediums such as documentation, multimedia, dance, choreography and light design, they often compose interludes curating an overarching audio-visual experience.

EKKI MINNA released their debut album ‘NO MORE NO LESS’ in 2024, which they created together with tonmeister Sebastian V Olsen. In addition to ‘a lot of ANGELS to consider’, the album features electroacoustic works by Mads Emil Dreyer and Christian Winther Christensen, as well as works by Johannes Kreidler and Franz Schubert. The album was released on Smekkleysa/Bad Taste Records in Iceland and the duo held a release concert at the Dark Music Days festival in January 2024. NO MORE NO LESS was nominated for the Icelandic Music Prize 2025 as the best album of the year in the classical/contemporary music category. “a lot of ANGELS to consider’, was also featured by Björk in her DJ Set for Vans at Milan Design Week 2025. EKKI MINNA is currently working on a new album featuring works by Adrianna Kubica-Cypek and Mads Emil Dreyer.

EKKI MINNA created the music theatre work ‘We’re Pleased to Meet Us’ with Matthew Grouse, which uses extra-musical elements and integrated multimedia to explore the theme of collaboration. The work premiered at MINU_festival 2025.

In 2027, EKKI MINNA will tour several festivals as a Ulysses Platform Emerging Ensemble, as well as doing educational work with composer students at higher education institutions.