Ultracromatics – Avanti! At the Knights’ Hall 6.11.2017

Avanti! has been a pioneer of new trends in Finnish music for more than three decades. In their PianoEspoo concert, the orchestra will premiere Sampo Haapamäki’s new concerto for quarter piano and Jukka Tiensuu’s recorder concerto. The soloists will be Eero Saunamäki, a keyboardist, and Elisa Järvi, a pianist who has been working with Haapamäki for years to develop the fourth string piano to provide a way for the composer’s increasingly varied chordal visions on keyboard.

SOURCE:
Charles De Lusse: Air à la Grecque (1760)
Jukka Tiensuu: Concerto for recorder n.s.
Sampo Haapamäki: Piano concerto for four movements n.s.

The concert is part of the PianoEspoo programme from 3 to 19 November 2017.

Tickets from Lippupiste, prices include delivery charges:
Normal price 33,50 €
Pensioners 27,50 €
Students, unemployed, conscripts, children 17,50 €
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Elisa Järvi
Elisa Järvi, a pianist from Espoo, Finland, graduated as a Doctor of Music from the DocMus Artist Training Centre at Sibelius Academy in 2011. Her piano teachers include Margit Rahkonen, Hui-Ying Tawaststjerna, Konstantin Bogino, Juhani Lagerspetz and Karin Merle. Järvi has immersed himself in new music performance practices through courses at the Cologne Music Academy and the Darmstadt and Acanthes Summer Academies. He has also played electroacoustic music and various keyboard instruments from celesta to disc piano. Elisa Järvi has worked with numerous Finnish and foreign contemporary composers, premiered and recorded works. Together with the composer Sampo Haapamäki, she has been developing a new four-part piano keyboard. The instrument has already been used twice in concerts by MikroEnsemble, a seven-piece ensemble specialising in microtonal music.

Eero Saunamäki
Eero Saunamäki studied recorder and saxophone at the Sibelius Academy and graduated with A-levels in both instruments in 2010. Saunamäki has been the most active commissioner and premiere performer of new recorder music in Finland in recent years: he has premiered more than 20 contemporary works for recorder by Finnish and foreign composers, organised recorder concerts, participated in improvisational and cross-artistic productions and as a soloist in orchestras. Saunamäki works as a special woodwind player in the Guards Band, as a teacher at the Sibelius Academy, as a freelance musician and as a musician in light music ensembles. Saunamäki is also a founding member and chairman of the Finnish Recorder Society. He received grants for commissioning a recorder concerto from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Wihuri Foundation and the Rutzy Foundation.

Avanti! received a grant from the Finnish Composers “Sibelius Foundation, supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, to commission a composition by Sampo Haapamäki. The Sibelius Followers grants were awarded to member orchestras of the Finnish Symphony Orchestras Association who commissioned works from members of the Finnish Composers” Association. All works will be premiered during the 100th anniversary of Finland’s independence.