Tue 15.9.2020 at 19.00
Music House, Helsinki
Heikki Kossi, foley artist
Antti Tikkanen, violin
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
Three top orchestras – Chamber Orchestra Avanti!, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) – will once again perform in a joint autumn concert, offering surprising treats and a wide range of skills to delight and inspire the audience! How does a recycled refrain sound on a Foley artist’s kiosk, what does Vivaldi sound like in a minimalist remix version, and what links can be found between the works in the concert and the world of cinema?
Avanti! and the world’s first foley concert
Jack and the Specifics, composed by Sami Klemola, is for foley artist and chamber orchestra. It is reportedly the first time that the solo parts of the concerto have been written for a foley artist, in this case Heikki Koss. Kossi is a sound artist who creates soundtracks for films, including the sound of footsteps and doors creaking. Kossi has worked on dozens of Finnish films and has also enjoyed international success. He performs foley sounds live in a concert situation. There is a strong visual element when Kossi, performing with Avant, brings a huge kiosk full of merchandise with him to produce the sounds.
UMO Helsinki and two ever-renewing maestros
Afro-Bossa is one of Duke Ellington’s most remarkable and original compositions. It’s a stunning demonstration of how the retired maestro still found new ways to travel the world of blues. Despite its name, the work makes no reference to Brazilian music, but is instead an abstract blend of African and Latin influences that, propelled by a bolero rhythm, reach an explosive climax like an approaching procession.
In addition to a piece by Duke Ellington, the UMO will perform a tickling piece by Jukka Tiensuu called Umori. As always with Jukka Tiensuu, he once again showed the music world his unfailing visionary talents when he musically reinvented the big band ensemble in Umori. However, the work is not an antithesis or negation of the big band tradition, but rather an astonishingly unforced glowing update of the unused resources of the big jazz orchestra.
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra plays a wide range of music from jazz to soul and classical music, surprisingly combining new and old.
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A Finnish baroque orchestra combines past and present
The distance between past and present is short – sometimes a hair’s breadth. A more familiar version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons will open the ears of baroque lovers when the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) concludes the concert with Max Richter’s Four Seasons Recomposed, premiered in 2012. It models the Four Seasons concertos as minimalist remixes. Sometimes Vivaldi and Richter walk in lockstep, sometimes Richter jerks the music into an insightful angle or stretches it through repetition into cosmic baroque landscapes. The result of recolored harmonic bases and surfaces reminiscent of electronic sound mats is a deafening and intelligently realized ambient Vivaldi.
Antti Tikkanen and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra will interpret the work this year in Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo as well as in Central Europe.
The Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) is known for its skilful performances, bold and innovative working methods and creative repertoire design.
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The concert is part of the AUF collaboration between Avanti!, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra since autumn 2017.
Before the concert, there will be a Get more out of the performance event in the main hall of the Music Hall at 18:00.
15.9.2020 at 19.00 Helsinki Music Hall
At 18 Päälämpiö – More out of the performance (20 min)
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Duke Ellington: Afro-Bossa (1963, 4:30)
Jukka Tiensuu: UMORI (2004, 19:00)
1. Kumous / Riscossa
2. Umous / Ahnung
3. Kumotus / Clair de lune
4. Kuumotus / Fever
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Heikki Kossi, foley artist
Sami Klemola (1973): Jack and the Specifics (2017, 22:00)
1. The Forest
2. Man in the Cabin
3. The Crash
4. Intermezzo
5. Friction
6. Underwater
7. Message deleted
8. Tom, Jack and bipolar Jerry
9. Machina
10. Cadenza
11. Exit
12. Still life
Interim
Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
Antti Tikkanen, violin
Max Richter (1966-): Four Seasons Recomposed (2012, 45:00)
1. Spring
2. Summer
3. Autumn
4. Winter
Tickets: ticketmaster.fi
