American violinist Jennifer Koh to star at Porvoo Summer Music Festival

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Violinist Jennifer Koh will be the star of the Porvoo Summer Festival this summer. She will perform György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto at the Avanti Hall concert on Friday 28 June. Composed in 1990, the Violin Concerto is a lyrical work at its core. The harmony is blurred by natural-sounding French horns and four ocarinas reminiscent of flutes, with the addition of two flutes and a wide range of percussion. The result is an intimate but explosive soundscape of chamber music.

Friday’s concert will also feature Richard Strauss’ Introduction to the opera Capriccio and Franz Schreker’s Chamber Symphony for 23 solo instruments. The concert will be conducted by Baldur Brönnimann, conductor and artistic director of the Suvisoitto Festival.

After the concert Avanti! Lounge with Jennifer Koh offers the audience the opportunity to meet the evening’s soloist in the warmth of the Art Factory, as Koh performs solo vocal works by Kaija Saariaho and Missy Mazzoli, among others, before dark. On Saturday 29 June from 14-16, Koh will perform in Porvoo’s cafés, where he will play commissioned solo vocal works in intimate mini-concerts.

An uncompromising interpreter of new music

Jennifer Koh is known as an open-minded and versatile artist and an uncompromising performer of new music. She has premiered over 70 works during her career, with compositions by Kaija Saariaho and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Koh has studied Finnish music extensively and has also recorded Uuno Klam’s Violin Concerto (BIS).

The latest issue of Rondo Classic (5/2019) features a review of the latest Saariaho x Koh album: “American violinist Jennifer Koh, who will be a guest at Porvoo’s Suvisoito next summer, makes the sensual profile of Saariaho’s music glow, at times delicate and at times demonic.” The music of Saariaho, interpreted by Koh, will be enjoyed at Suvisoito.

Tickets and festival bus

Tickets for the summer concert are on sale on Lippupiste’s website www.lippu.fi/avanti and by calling 0600 900 900 (1,98€/min. + pvm). Festival pass enquiries directly from Avant’s office.

As usual, the festival bus will take you from Helsinki to Porvoo and back after the concert. Bus tickets are also sold by Lippupiste.

Jennifer Koh’s homepage

Photos by Jürgen Frank

Humppavanti!, Matti Salminen and M.A. Numminen meet at Porvoo Suvisoito

Humppavanti! Salminen and Numminen
Come and join Humppavant’s Saturday crew! The bar is open and a dance floor has been set up in the Avanti Hall of the Art Factory.

What does it sound like when the surreal cult band Humppavanti plays neo-Norwegian jazz, straightens out bends from opera classics or pays homage to a late tango master?

Avant’s virtuoso musicians solo and invite two iconic big MUMS: M.A. Numminen and big-Masa Matti Salminen. The ensemble, premiered at the Cologne Philharmonic in 2016, will have its Finnish premiere at Porvoo Suvisoito on Saturday 29 June at 19.00 in Avanti Hall.

Fast-paced and dangerous arrangements by Timo Hietala. Featuring improv hustlers from Minna Pensola to Mika Kallio, jazz hustlers from Seppo Kantonen to Panu Savolainen, contemporary clowns to hippie hustlers, with all the spices.

Don’t dump come and listen to the hops!

Tickets on sale at Lippupiste.

The programme for the Summer Music Festival can be found at: https://avantimusic.fi/suvisoiton-ohjelma/

Photos by Heikki Tuuli and Tomas Wennbom

Avanti! Summer Sounds XXXIV – programme published

Avanti! Summer Sounds XXXIV will arrive in Porvoo on 26 – 30 June 2019. This year the programme has been created by Swiss Baldur Brönnimann. As the theme for 2019 is City of Music, the music will enter the streets and cafés of Porvoo to paint a multitude of thoughts and feelings on the streets and walls of Porvoo with an imaginary paintbrush.

Finland’s premiere of Teoton composed by Jukka Tiensuu for sheng artist Wu Wei will take place at the Art Factory. Sheng or the mouth-organ is an ancient woodwind instrument, related to harmonica for example, known in China and Korea, in particular.

This year as a novelty Summer Sounds will present late-night Lounge clubs where the international stars, like sheng artist Wu Wei and violinist Jennifer Koh, will join the concert audience at the Avanti Hall foyer after the main concerts. The music will descend from the stage among the audience and the concert guests have a possibility to enjoy the high-level of skill and improvisation of international artists. American violinist Jennifer Koh will also perform pieces for solo violin in the cafés of Porvoo on Saturday. Koh is also the soloist for the fantastic violin concerto by György Ligeti on Friday evening.

The legends of Finnish music Matti Salminen and M.A. Numminen meet again, as the incredible Humppavanti! returns to Summer Sounds. Avanti Hall will witness music from Finnish composers M.A. Nummisen and Unto Monosen as well as Schubert and Wagner in a way not often seen in concert halls. At the final concert, the festival’s folk theme will culminate on Sunday in the works by György Ligeti. The festival will end with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony number 3, “Eroica”.

Summer Sounds will bring to Porvoo music composed by king Henry VIII performed by Avanti’s viola da gamba ensemble as well as compositions from the times of Valle Rosenberg (1891-1919), gifted expressionist painters from Porvoo who died at early age. As in the earlier years, the festival programme includes a composers’ workshop with music written to old avant-garde short films and a concert for children where one can touch the music.

Avantis 34th Summer Sounds festival receives kind support from the City of Porvoo, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden and the Aktiastiftelsten in Porvoo.

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The tickets are sold on the website of Lippupiste as of Friday 22 March at 9.00. For festival pass inquiries, please contact the Avanti! office directly (contact details below). For the full programme, click here.

For further information:
Avanti Office, [email protected],+358 50 581 0409
www.avantimusic.fi

Text edited on 24.5.: The name and number of Beethoven’s symphony in the final concert updated.

Avant’s XXXIV Summerfest is coming – programme published, tickets on sale

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Avant’s Summer Music Festival comes to Porvoo on 26-30 June 2019, with Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann as the artistic director. The theme for 2019 is City of Music, bringing music to the streets and cafés of Porvoo. The music will paint different moods and imaginary musical inscriptions on the streets and walls of houses in Porvoo.

The Finnish premiere of Jukka Tiensuu’s work Teoton, composed for its performer, sheng virtuoso Wu Wei, will take place in the Avanti Hall of the Art Factory. The sheng, or mouth organ, is a thousand-year-old wind instrument, especially in China and Korea, whose sound production is related to the Western accordion and harmonica.

New to the summer festival are open lounge clubs, where international stars Wu Wei and violinist Jennifer Koh will join festival-goers in the warmth of the Avanti Hall as the evening draws to a close. The music will descend from the stage to the people and the audience will be able to enjoy high quality improvisation by international artists. American violinist Jennifer Koh will also perform in Porvoo’s cafés on Saturday, playing works for solo violin. Koh will also be the soloist in György Ligeti’s fantastic violin concerto on Friday evening.

Legends of their species Matti Salminen and M.A. Numminen meet again when Humppavanti! returns to the Suvisoito repertoire. During the evening, M.A. Numminen and Unto Mononen as well as compositions by Schubert and Wagner will be heard in Avanti Hall in slightly more unusual guises. In the closing concert, the festival’s folk theme will culminate in György Ligeti’s Concert Românesc. Beethoven’s third symphony “Eroica” will close the festival.

The programme includes compositions by the Avant gambay ensemble and King Henry VIII, as well as Finnish folk music and compositions from the time of the late Porfolk expressionist Valle Rosenberg (1891-1919). As usual, the programme also includes a composition workshop concert with works related to avant-garde lyric films, and a children’s concert where music can be touched.

Avantin 34. Suvisoitto is supported by the City of Porvoo, the Arts Promotion Centre, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden and the Porvoo Aktiasäätiö.

Tickets are now on sale at Lippupiste outlets and at www.lippu.fi/avanti.

The programme and information about the upcoming festival can be found here.

Festival pass enquiries directly from the Avant office (contact details below).

For more information:

Avant Office, [email protected], tel. 050 581 0409

Information updated on 24 May: changed the name and number of the Beethoven symphony for the closing concert.

Summer Sounds Programme 2019

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Wednesday 26.6.2019

King Henry VIII meets Emperor Jiajing

Time: Wednesday 26.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: Pernå Church

Wu Wei, sheng
Jukka Rautasalo, conductor and descant viola da gamba
Anthony Marini, tenor viola da gamba
Maija Lampela, bass viola da gamba
Anna Rinta-Rahko, violone
Taavi Oramo, tenor

Berlin-based sheng artist Wu Wei is one of the international guests of the Summer sounds. Sheng (mouth-organ) is an ancient woodwind instrument known and played especially in China and Japan. More modern instruments like the accordion and harmonica are related to this instrument. Wu Wei will perform sheng music from China at the Pernå Church. The Avanti! viola da gamba ensemble together with tenor Taavi Oramo will perform songs from the 16th and 17th century Europe composed by, among others, the king Henry VIII, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke and Ludwig Senfl.

Tickets: 32€/ 27€/ 16€ + service fee

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Thursday 27.6.2019

Opening Fanfare

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019, 13.00 and 18.40 (free entrance)
Place: Art Factory lobby, please note the new location and two performances!

The traditional Summer Sounds opening fanfare will open this year’s festival at 13.00 and at 18.40 at the Art Factory lobby. The composer of this year’s fanfare is Tomi Räisänen.

Programmes:
Tomi Räisänen: Fanfare

Afternoon with Valle Rosenberg

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at appr. 13.15 after the Opening Fanfare
Place: Porvoo Old Town Hall

Eriikka Maalismaa (violin), Riitta-Liisa Ristiluoma (viola) and Mikko Ivars (cello)

The Summer Sounds concert series will start with Avanti! string trio concert at the Old Town Hall where paintings from the young expressionist Valle Rosenberg (1891-1919) will be combined with music from his contemporaries.

Programmes:
Erkki Melartin: String trio op 133 (Andante, Andante funebre, Presto, Finale)
Anton Webern: Movement for string trio (Ruhig fließend) op. Post
Jean Cras: String trio (lent, animé, très animé)

Tickets: 32€/ 27€/ 16€ + service fee

Opening concert: Drakar och danser

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Wu Wei, sheng
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra

The star of the opening Avanti Hall concert for Summer Sounds is Wu Wei and his instrument sheng. The Finnish premiere of Teoton by Jukka Tiensuu will take place the same evening at the Art Factory. The programme consists of music seen through Baroque lenses. Arrangements by Johanness Schöllhorn provide a playful angle to the music of J.S. Bach.

Programmes:
Johannes Schöllhorn: Anamorphoses (Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima – Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese – Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima)

Frank Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (Adagio – Allegro con moto – Adagio – Allegretto alla marcia)

Emil Holmström, piano
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord
Päivi Severeide, harp

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Johannes Schöllhorn: Anamorphoses (Canon in hypodiapason (Canon alla ottava)
Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu 3)

Jukka Tiensuu: Teoton, concerto for sheng (Fever, Adrift, Game, Bliss)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + service fee

Avanti! Lounge with Wu Wei and electronic artist Tuomas Norvio

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at 20.45 or when the concert at the Avanti Hall ends (free entrance)
Place: Avanti Hall Foyer, Art Factory

Wu Wei, sheng
Tuomas Norvio, electronics

The opening concert of the Summer Sounds will continue in the Art Factory Foyer, as after the concert the guests can enjoy improvisation by sound engineer and electronic artist Tuomas Norvio and Wu Wei. The festival bus back to Helsinki will leave approximately at 21.45 or 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

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Friday 28.6.2019

Shopping Angels

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 12.00
Place: Borgå Gymnasium

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Piia Komsi, soprano and cello
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

La Ronde by Vinko Globokar is a piece based on improvisation where musicians end up in a circle of social and musical problems. The performers cannot know how the work starts not to mention how it will end.

Cellist and soprano coloratura Piia Komsi will perform Sky shopping – Homage to Brahms by Yugoslavian-born Jovanka Trbojevic. In this breath-taking piece, the soloist will simultaneously perform the soprano and cello part.

Djuro Zivkovich is an internationally acclaimed composer whose music is not yet widely played in Finland. With the piece On the Guarding of the Heart, he received the significant Grawemeyer award in 2013.

All the composers of this concert are from former Yugoslavia.

Programmes:

Vinko Globokar: La Ronde
Jovanka Trbojevic: Sky Shopping – Homage to Brahms
Djuro Zivkovic: On the Guarding of the Heart

Tickets: 27€/ 22€/ 14€ + service fee

Composers’ workshop: visual music

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 16.00 (free entrance)
Place: Factory Hall, Art Factory

József Hárs, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

As part of the Summer Sounds festival, a young composers’ workshop will be organised at the Factory Hall. The students have created compositions to old avant-garde short films under the direction of masters Jukka Tiensuu and Tomi Räisänen.

Strange Strings

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

Festival Friday will end with American violinist Jennifer Koh who will perform the well-known violin concerto by György Ligeti together with conductor Baldur Brönnimann at the Avanti Hall. Also, the Chamber Symphony for 23 Solo Instruments by Franz Schreker will present its exotic, abundant and glimmering sound texture.

Programmes:
Richard Strauss: Introduction to “Capriccio”
György Ligeti: Violin concerto
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Franz Schreker: Chamber Symphony for 23 Solo Instruments (Slow, floating – Allegro vivace – Adagio – Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Quite moving – Slow, floating)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + service fee

Avanti! Lounge with Jennifer Koh

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 20.30 or when the concert at the Avanti Hall ends (free entrance)
Place: Avanti Hall Foyer, Art Factory

Jennifer Koh, violin

Late-night music with violinist Jennifer Koh can be enjoyed after the previous concert. Koh will perform Missy Mazzoli’s Kinski Paganini and other solo works commissioned by her. The festival bus to Helsinki will leave approximately at 21.30 or 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

Programmes: Missy Mazzoli: Kinski Paganini and other pieces for solo violin commissioned by Jennifer Koh
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Saturday 29.6.2019

Maija Kauhanen – Raging bike

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 13.00 (free entrance)
Place: house of the chaplain

Maija Kauhanen, kantele, vocals, percussions

Saturday afternoon starts with folk artist and multi-instrumentalist Maija Kauhanen at the backyard of Kappalaisen talo in old city. A powerfully expressive voice, heart-breaking stories, deep-rooted kantele and grooving percussion create hypnotic melodies and a unique soundscapes by one musician.

Afternoon with violinist Jennifer Koh

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 14.00-16.00 (free entrance)
Place: Cafés and restaurants in the Porvoo city center

Jennifer Koh, violin

Violinist Jennifer Koh plays intimate miniconcerts at the cafés and restaurants of Porvoo city centre. Experience the magnificent art by a world-class violinist from close up. Times and locations:

14.00-14.20 For example (Rihkamakatu 2, Porvoo)

15.00-15.20 Café Cabriole (Piispankatu 30, Porvoo)

15.30-15.50 Bistro Gustaf (Mannerheiminkatu 9, Porvoo)

NB! The mini-concert in KeaKafe at 14.30 has been cancelled!

Humppavanti! freaks out Matti Salminen & M.A. Numminen

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Join us at the Avanti Hall on Saturday as the Humppavanti! takes the stage with Matti Salminen and M.A. Numminen. The bar is open and even a dance floor is set! Anything and everything is humppa. Humppa has always been and will always stay. Humppa is eternal. For Humppavanti! nothing is sacred, not even humppa. Humppa knows no limits. It’s not a style or a genre. It’s an attitude.

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + service fee

The festival bus back to Helsinki will leave approximately at 21.15 or 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

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Sunday 30.6.2019

Children’s concert: Touch the music (in Finnish)

Time: Sunday 30.6.2019 at 13.00
Place: Factory Hall, Art Factory
Avanti! musicians

On Sunday, music pedagogue and audience outreach professional Tuula Jukola-Nuorteva and glass artist and art teacher Liisa Ikävalko have created a concert for children where the music will come so close it can even be touched.

Tickets: 15€ per person or 50€ for family ticket (4 persons) + service fee

Summer Sounds final concert: Dancing with Ludwig

Time: Sunday 30.6.2019 at 18.00
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

When composer Brett Dean was reading the famous Heiligenstadt Testament written by Beethoven, he was struck by a haunting sonic idea that was the sound of Ludwig’s imagined quill writing manically on leaves of parchment paper. Based on this vision, Dean created the piece that was titled Testament. The composition is the second piece by Dean inspired by Beethoven. The folkloristic piece Concert Romanesc by György Ligeti will culminate the folk theme for this year’s Summer Sounds 2019. Ludwig van Beethoven’s third symphony “Eroica” will be the grand finale for the festival.

Programmes:
Brett Dean: Testament
György Ligeti: Concert Românesc (Andantino – Allegro vivace – Adagio ma non troppo – Molto vivace)

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, op. 55 “Eroica” (Allegro con brio – Marcia funebre: Adagio assai – Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio – Finale: Allegro molto)

Please note that the concert will end with the Beethoven’s Symphony number 3 “Eroica”, not number six as announced earlier!

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + service fee

The festival bus to Helsinki will leave approximately at 20.30 or 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

Summerfest XXXIV programme

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Wednesday 26.6.2019

King Henry VIII meets Emperor Jiajing

Time: Wednesday 26.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: church of Pernaja
Performers Wu Wei (sheng), Jukka Rautasalo (music director and treble viola), Anthony Marini (tenor viola), Maija Lampela (bass viola), Anna Rinta-Rahko (violone) and Taavi Oramo (tenor)
Duration about 1h 40min

Berlin-based sheng artist Wu Wei will be one of the international guests of the festival. The sheng, or mouth organ, is a thousand-year-old wind instrument, especially in China and Japan, from which the accordion and the harmonium, more familiar to many, have later descended. Wu Wei performs sheng music from China in Pernaya Church. The Avant gambay ensemble and tenor Taavi Oramo will perform songs from 16th and 17th century Europe. They will perform compositions by King Henry VIII of England, among others.

Programme:
Music from 16th and 17th century Europe by King Henry VIII, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke and Ludwig Senfl, and music from 16th century China for sheng instrument performed by Wu Wei.

Tickets: 32€/ 27€/ 16€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

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Thursday 27.6.2019

Opening fanfare

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at 13.00 and 18.40 (free entry)
Venue: the Art Factory Lobby (Please note the new venue and two performances! Due to inclement weather, the performance has been moved indoors.)
Duration about 10 min

On Thursday, the traditional opening fanfare will take place in the Art Factory lobby at 13 and 18.40. This summer’s opening fanfare will be composed by Tomi Räisänen.

Afternoon with Valle Rosenberg

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at about 13.15 after the opening fanfare
Location: Porvoo Town Hall, 2nd floor (Please note that the concert hall is unfortunately not accessible to all.)
Duration about 45 min

Eriikka Maalismaa (violin), Riitta-Liisa Ristiluoma (viola) and Mikko Ivars (cello)

The concert series opens with a concert by the Avant String Trio at Porvoo Town Hall, where the paintings of the Porvoo Expressionist artist Valle Rosenberg (1891-1919) are combined with music from his era.

Programme:
Erkki Melartin: Jousitrio op 133 (Andante, Andante funebre, Presto, Finale)
Anton Webern: Movement for string trio (Ruhig fließend) op. Post
Jean Cras: Jousitrio (lent, animé, très animé)

Tickets: 32€/ 27€/ 16€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

Opening concert of the Summer Music Festival: Drakar och danser

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at 19.00
Venue: Avanti Hall, Art Factory
Duration about 1h 45min

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Wu Wei, sheng
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

The opening concert of the Summer Music Festival will feature Wu Wei and the sheng instrument. The Finnish premiere of Jukka Tiensuu’s work Teoton will take place in the Avanti Hall of the Art Factory. The works in the concert are music seen through Baroque glasses. Johannes Schöllhorn’s arrangements create a fascinating perspective on the music of J.S. Bach.

Programme:
Johannes Schöllhorn: Anamorphoses, according to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugues
(Contrapunctus 10 a 4 alla Decima – Contrapunctus 6 a 4 in Stylo Francese – Contrapunctus 9 a 4 alla Duodecima)

Frank Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (Adagio – Allegro con moto – Adagio – Allegretto alla marcia)

Emil Holmström, piano
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord
Päivi Severeide, harp

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Johannes Schöllhorn: Anamorphoses, according to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of Fugues
(Canon in hypodiapason (Canon alla ottava) – Canon per augmentationem in contrario motu 3)

Jukka Tiensuu: Theoton, concerto for sheng and orchestra (Fever, Adrift, Game, Bliss)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

Avanti! Lounge with Wu Wei and electronic artist Tuomas Norvio

Time: Thursday 27.6.2019 at 20.45 or when the Avanti Hall concert ends (free entry)
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory
Duration 45min

Wu Wei, sheng and Tuomas Norvio, electronics

The opening evening of the Summer Play continues in the warmth of the Porvoo Art Factory, where after the concert we will enjoy improvisations by sound designer and musician Tuomas Norvio and sheng artist Wu Wei. The evening club is free of charge. The festival bus to Helsinki will leave around 21.45.

 

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Friday 28.6.2019

Shopping Angels

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 12.00
Place: the Borgå Gymnasium
Duration about 1h

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Piia Komsi, vocals and cello
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

In Vinko Globokar’s La Ronde, a work based on improvisation, musicians are caught in a vicious circle of social and musical problems. The performers do not know how the piece begins, let alone how it ends.

Cellist and coloratura soprano Piia Komsi will perform Sky shopping – Hommage à Brahms by Jovanka Trobojevic, a long-time resident of Yugoslavia. In this breathtaking work, the soloist simultaneously performs the vocal and cello parts in a piece of instrumental theatre.

Swedish-based composer Djuro Zivkovich’s visit to Suvisoito is significant, as the music of this internationally acclaimed composer has rarely been performed in Finland. The work in this concert won him the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize in 2013. All the composers in this concert are from the former Yugoslavia.

Programme:

Vinko Globokar: La Ronde
Jovanka Trbojevic: Sky Shopping – Hommage à Brahms
Djuro Zivkovic: On the Guarding of the Heart

Tickets: 27€/ 22€/ 14€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

Composition workshop: fresh sound music for a century of visual music

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 16.00 (free entry)
Place: factory hall, Art Factory
Duration 1h

Performers: József Hárs, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

As part of the Summer Music Festival programme, a Composition Workshop concert by young composers will be held in the Factory Hall of the Art Factory. Under the direction of master composers Jukka Tiensuu and Tomi Räisänen, the composition students have created compositions for old avant-garde lyric films.

Strange Strings

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 19.00
Venue: Avanti Hall, Art Factory
Duration about 1h 30 min

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

American violinist Jennifer Koh will close Friday. She will perform György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, a new music classic, conducted by Baldur Brönnimann in Avanti Hall. Jennifer Koh has commissioned and premiered numerous works for violin. Also on the programme is Franz Schreker’s Chamber Symphony for twenty-three solo instruments, which represents Schreker’s signature sparkling and exotic, boldly perfumed sound.

Programme:
Richard Strauss: Introduction to the opera Capriccio
György Ligeti: Violin Concerto (Praeludium: Vivacissimo luminoso, Ari – Hoquetus – Choral: Andante con moto, Intermezzo: Presto fluido, Passacaglia: Lento intense, Appassionato: Agitato molto)

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Franz Schreker: Chamber Symphony for twenty-three solo instruments (Slow, floating – Allegro vivace – Adagio – Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Quite moving – Slow, floating)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

Avanti! Lounge with Jennifer Koh

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 20.30 or when the concert in Avanti Hall ends (free entry)
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory
Duration about 35min

Jennifer Koh, violin

Violinist Jennifer Kohi’s evening club and improvisation can be enjoyed after the Friday evening concert in the warmth of the Art Factory with a glass of wine. Koh will perform pieces such as Missy Mazzoli’s Kinski Paganini and other works for violin that she has commissioned. Admission to the concert is free. The festival bus to Helsinki leaves at around 21.30.

Programme: Missy Mazzoli: Kinski Paganini and other solo vocal works commissioned by Jennifer Koh.

 

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Saturday 29.6.2019

Maija Kauhanen – Raging bike

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 13.00 (free entry)
Place: the courtyard of Kappalaisen’s house
Duration about 1h

Maija Kauhanen (kantele, vocals, percussion)

On Saturday afternoon 29.6. you can start the day with kantele artist and folk musician Maija Kauhanen in the courtyard of Kappalainen’s house. Strong vocals, heart-wrenching stories, a raw kantele and groovy percussion – the weaving heartbeat of polyrhythms and strong beat combined with hypnotic melodies create a unique soundscape with just one musician. The concert is free of charge.

Afternoon with violinist Jennifer Koh

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 14.00-16.00, free entry
Place: cafés and restaurants in Porvoo city centre

Jennifer Koh, violin

Violinist Jennifer Koh gives intimate mini-concerts in cafés and restaurants in downtown Porvoo. Experience the art of the top American violinist up close.

14.00-14.20 For example (Rihkamakatu 2, Porvoo)

15.00-15.20 Café Cabriole (Piispankatu 30, Porvoo)

15.30-15.50 Bistro Gustaf (Mannerheiminkatu 9, Porvoo)

NOTE! The concert at KeaKafe at 14.30 has been cancelled.

Humppavanti! freaks out Matti Salminen & M.A. Numminen

Time: Saturday 29.6.2019 at 19.00
Venue: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Matti Salminen and M.A. Numminen and Avant’s musicians

Come and join Humppavant’s Saturday crew! The bar is open and a dance floor has been arranged in the Avanti Hall of the Art Factory.

Anything can be a hop. There has always been hops, long before the Humppa-Veikas. Hops are eternal. According to the Bible, the music was invented by Tubal, the son of Cain, and according to tradition, hops are named after the sound of the tuba. Not only is it one and the same, but it is also full of tuba.

Nothing is sacred to a hop fan, including the hop. Humppavant’s hops are any kind of music, as long as they are played as hops. Kullervo Linna’s legacy is that humming knows no limits to instrumental imagination. Humppa is not a style or a genre of music. Humppa is an attitude.

Humpah is a hot cultural capital that has attracted renowned artists. The cry in the suburban pubs is already: – Satan, now they’re taking our hops away. The hump will not become art, even if a prestigious contemporary music orchestra tackles it with the legitimacy of “anarchist-surrealist” humour or “creative madness”. Humppa will drive anyone crazy, but it keeps its feet firmly on the ground. At least for a few moments.

The festival bus to Helsinki will leave about 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

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Sunday 30.6.2019

Children’s concert: touch the music

Time: Sunday 30.6.2019 at 13.00
Place: factory hall, Art Factory
Duration about 1h

Performers: the musicians of Avant

On Sunday, Tuula Jukola-Nuorteva, a long-time audience engagement professional and music educator, and Liisa Ikävalko, a glass artist and visual arts teacher, have designed a concert for children where music comes within touching distance of children.

Tickets: 15€ one ticket / family tickets (4 persons) 50€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

Closing concert: dancing with Ludwig

Time: Sunday 30.6.2019 at 18.00
Venue: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

As composer Brett Dean read Beethoven’s famous Heiligenstadt Testament, he was struck by the quietly intense soundscape of Beethoven’s imaginary quill pen manically writing on parchment paper. It was from this vision that Dean began to build his work, which he named Testament, the composer’s second Beethoven-themed work. György Ligeti’s folkloristic work Concert Romanesc culminates the folk music theme of Suvisoito. Ludwig van Beethoven’s third symphony “Eroica” will conclude this summer’s festival.

Programme:
Brett Dean: Testament
György Ligeti: Concert Românesc (Andantino – Allegro vivace – Adagio ma non troppo – Molto vivace)
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E-flat major op. 55 “Eroica”

Allegro con brio
Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio
Finale: Allegro molto

(NOTE! Contrary to previous information, the closing concert will feature Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, not No. 6 “Pastoral”.)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + delivery fee (from 1€ per order)

The festival bus to Helsinki will leave about 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

Avantin 34. Suvisoitto is supported by the City of Porvoo, the Arts Promotion Centre, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden and the Porvoo Aktiasäätiö.