Mon 19.11.2018 at 13 Music House, Rehearsal Room Paavo
Nothing is what it looks like,
everything is what it sounds like.
Among the unlimited range of styles in the concert, the latest music is right at home. The sound of the Avant String Quartet blends with the wide arsenal of Marzi Nyman, Arttu Takalo and Tero Toivonen.
The concert is part of a joint AUF concert series by Avant, UMO and FiBO.
Tickets 11€ (incl. service charge). Tickets sold by Ticketmaster.
Avant’s chamber ensemble performs on Sat 25.8. at 19 in Pukkila Church and Wed 3.10. at 19 in Kangasala Hall. The concerts are part of the AUF collaboration project between Avant, the New Music Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra.
Programme:
Bartók-Farina-Schumann-Tiensuu-Ellington-Ligeti
Performers:
Avanti! quartet:
Kari Kriikku, clarinet
Jouko Laivuori, piano
Tickets 17,50/11 €, family ticket 22,50 €, series ticket to three AUF concerts in Eastern Uusimaa 43/28 €. Tickets are available at the Askola library, Hyvinvointikeskus Onni in Pukkila, Kipa bookstore in Mäntsälä, Mäntsälä municipal service point, Pukkila library, door-to-door sales and Ticketmaster. Only cash is accepted at municipal sales points and doorstep sales. Ticket enquiries: [email protected]. For more information on UMO and FiBO concerts, please visit their websites umo.fi and fibo.fi.
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Programme:
Bartók-Farina-Schumann-Tiensuu-Ellington-Ligeti-Pärt
Performers:
Avanti! quartet:
Kari Kriikku, clarinet
Jouko Laivuori, piano
Tickets from Kangasala-talo 22/20/10 €, Lippu.fi 24,50/22,50/11,50 € + delivery charges (from 1 € www.lippu.fi)
Sunday marked the end of Avant’s 33. The summer concert was a success. The ticket sales target for the concerts was exceeded, and the feedback from both the public and the media has been positive.
The trio who planned the summer concert, long-time Avant-garde musicians Timo Ahtinen, Hanna Juutilainen and Jukka Rautasalo, created the programme with an Avant-garde approach, covering music from as wide a time period as possible. The festival’s home towns of Pernaja and Porvoo were also present in the selection of works. The XXXIII Suvisoito featured a total of 12 concerts in Pernaja, Porvoo Tuomiokerko, Pikkukerko and Taidetehta. The programmes included music from the 15th century to the present day. In addition to the festival fanfare composed by Jukka Tiensuu, the programme included three other premieres. As always at Suvisoito, one of the concerts was dedicated to children.
Launched in spring 2018, Pro Avanti! Association will continue the activities of the chamber orchestra Avant and the Suvisoitto Festival, which has been closed down due to financial difficulties. ry. Avanti! is looking to the future with confidence, even though its finances are significantly tighter than before.
So Avant’s work continues and planning for the next Summer Play is already underway. Swiss-born conductor Baldur Brönnimann is planning the XXXIV Summer Festival. The next Summer Festival will take place on 26-30 June 2019.
PE 26.9.2025 | 15-21 | Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA
Continue readingXXXIII Summer Concert 30.6. at 18:00: texts of the Kläätasku songs omitted from the manuscript programme and Schoenberg’s String Quartet No 2, parts Litanei and Entrückung, with texts by Stefan George (suom. Jan Granberg).
Heinz-Juhani Hofmann: Kylätasku songs (texts by Jussi Kylätasku)
1.
Put me in a porous soil
that I may burn with a small flame steadily to the end, I shall crack, crack, crack in a regular manner into my parts
and feed more than ever with my wages
when the earth is only porous, its breath warm and dry.
(Good News, p. 58)
2.
The subject of the poem is a plastic ear through which light shines steadily.
It’s hard to admit that you’re interested in what you don’t have;
From a certain angle, the junction of the neck and shoulder.
In a way, you become aware when love dies.
(Private entrepreneurs, p.13)
3.
I’m sitting in a smoky room; it’s raining. At least not inside.
I won’t be sad.
Dear friend, what are you waiting for: the same old crap?
A trip to the centre of the country for a little money, what are you waiting for
The gang is on the move, the world is changing, but society is being built to last. The world is maturing beautifully to a serene end, to a fitting starry sky, the cosmonaut aware of his minute when the capsule goes into a spiral;
In his shares of the working and unemployed, the poet alienates himself from Oulu in a semblance of harmony.
(Private entrepreneurs, p.11)
4. SONG
October is birdless, songless, the forest slows down in front of your eyes.
A drowned youngster can be heard through the snowless ice.
It looked so damn tall.
It’s at least ten feet tall. A blue-grey striped suit. One shoe loose, red ankle sock, V-patent collar, tie somewhat wrapped.
Counts heartbeats on a wristwatch.
(Private entrepreneurs, p.19)
Litany
Deep is the grief that doth shake me, I will enter again, O Lord, into thy house.
The journey has been long, the limbs are dull, the shrines are empty, the agony is full.
Thirsty tongue dying to cry. Hard was the quarrel, stiff is my arm.
Give rest to faltering steps, hungry gaume crumble your bread!
Weak is my breath calling to the dream, hollow are the hands, feverish the mouth.
Lend your coolness, put out the fires. Extinguish the hope, send the light!
The glowing embers in the heart are still open, A cry still awakes in the depths.
Kill the longing, close the wound! Take away my love, give me your happiness!
Rapture
I feel air from another planet.
I am pale through the darkness the faces that turned to me friendly a moment ago.
And trees and paths that I loved pale That I hardly know them any more And thou light beloved shadow-caller of my torments–
Are now extinguished in deep glow To suggest with a pious shudder the staggering disputing getobes.
I loose myself in tones, circling, weaving, surrendering to the great breath without wishing, to fathomless thanks and unnamed praise.
I am overtaken by an impetuous wind
In the frenzy of consecration where fervent cries plead In dust thrown praying women:
Then I see how fragrant mists hatch
In a sun-filled clear free
That only embraces on farthest mountains hatch.
The floor is white and soft as whey. I’m climbing over gorges immense.
I feel like I’m over the last cloud
In a sea of crystalline brilliance I swim– I am a spark only of the holy fire
I am a roar only of the holy voice.
Litania
Deep is the sorrow that darkens me, And again, Lord, I enter your house.
It’s been a long journey, the members are tired,
The trunks are empty now, it’s just a pain in the ass.
A dry tongue craves a splash of vodka.
It was a tough struggle, now my arm is numb.
Give peace to the weary steps, To the hungry mouth break a piece of your bread!
Weak breathing, crying out in sleep, Empty palms, feverish mouth.
Lend your cool, extinguish the flames, Redeem hope, give a ray of light!
Glowing widows, fluttering in the chest, Inside the deepest still a cry waits.
Kill the longing, stop the bleeding wounds! Take from me love instead of your happiness!
Exit
I can feel the airflow from other planets. Fading in the darkness are faces
that kindly turned to me.
And the trees and roads I love will fade so that I hardly know them and the bright beloved shadow-interpreter of my pains–
You’ve gone all out in a deep-blue glow to dampen the post-rapturous exclamation of elation to a pious shudder.
I break free to the sounds, spinning, spinning, endless praise and anonymous praise, a huge breath of hopeless surrender.
A furious breeze blows over me
in a holy din where the cries of worshippers thrown into the dust rush:
Then I see how the humid mist rises in a light-filled, bright freedom that reaches to the farthest mountain peaks.
The ground beneath quivers as soft and white as milk. I rise above the distant gorges.
I feel how on the last clouds
I swim in a sea of Christian glory–I am but a tiny flame of holy fire, just a breath of holy sound.
J.L.Runeberg:Andranatten http://www.svensklyrik.se/poeter/johan-ludvig-runeberg/andra-natten-2
Pro Avanti! Association has appointed Annika Mustonen as Executive Director of the Avant Chamber Orchestra and the Suvisoitto Festival. Ms Mustonen has held the position on a temporary basis since August 2017.
Annika Mustonen is a cultural producer from Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and a musician (pop/jazz vocals) from
Prior to Avant, Mustonen has worked as a freelancer at several art events across the country, and as the executive producer of the pioneering We Jazz event in Helsinki in 2013-2015. He is also the producer of Jazz-Espa 2010-2018.
The new Executive Director knows what he is doing and enjoys Avant’s content-driven thinking. “Avanti! is an extremely interesting organisation, where music is made rigorously and from all eras. The most interesting thing is that music really is at the heart of everything we do. The works are always selected first and only then the performers. “, says Mustonen. He doesn’t abandon his own musicianship, but plays gigs when his main work schedule allows.
Launched in spring 2018, Pro Avanti! Association will continue the activities of the chamber orchestra Avant and the Suvisoitto Festival, which has been closed down due to financial difficulties. ry. Pro Avanti! “During the tumultuous 2017-18 season, Annika Mustonen managed the duties of Avant’s Executive Director with such Avanti! commitment and strong stress tolerance that it was an easy and pleasant task to appoint her as the permanent Executive Director”, says Pro Avanti! Association was an easy and straightforward decision to take on the role of Executive Director .
Mon 22.9.2025 | at 19 | Hämeenlinna Verkatehdas, Vanaja hall
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19.00 Pernajan kirkko/Pernå kyrka/Pernaja Church
In Agricola’s home turf
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano/soprano/soprano
Jukka Rautasalo, treble viol and leading/diskantgamba och musikledning/Treble viol and leading
Anthony Marini, tenor viola/tenor viola/tenor viol
Louna Hosia, bass viol and bowed lyre/basgamba och stråkharpa/Bass viol and Karelian bowed lyre
Ilkka Heinonen, horn and violone/stråkharpa och violone/Karelian bowed lyre and violone
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord and organ/cembalo och orgel/harpsichord and organ
Programme/programme:
Feodor Pratsu/Lauri Pulakka: Song
Piae cantiones:
In vernali tempore
Sum in aliena provincia
Simon Lohet: Fuga seconda
Ludwig Senfl:
In May you can hear the Hanen kreen
Carmen in la
I feel like going to the Musica
Johannes Brahms: Of a noble kind
Ludwig Senfl:
Oh, Elslein
It sits before the forest
Olli Virtaperko:
Ananiaan’s Complaint (From the Land Satisfaction series to the Discordant Gambas)
Reposen Heikki’s jig (from the Folk Music Gambaa series)
The Gods of Hämälä for soprano and gambaconsort (Mikael Agricola) Wed, commissioned by Jukka Rautasalo
Heinrich Isaac: Innsbruck I must leave you
Balthasar Resinarius: Ise meiden (Mikael Agricola)
Johann Walter: Lasche now thy servant (Mikael Agricola)
Melchior Franck: For Him No is God (by Mikael Agricola)
Balthasar Resinarius: Come, Holy Spirit of the Lord (Mikael Agricola)
Martti Luther/Johann Walter: Wår Gudh Är oss een wäldigh borgh
Feodor Pratsu: Exile
Trad./Feodor Pratšu:
Kakkunashi/Omnis mundus jucundetur
Parvulus nobis nascitur/Jacques Obrecht: Rompeltier
Piae Cantiones:
Personent hodie
Gaudete
Puer natus in Bethlehem
The concert lasts about 2,5 h, with an intermission. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 32/27/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
19.00 Avanti Hall /Avanti-salen/Avanti Hall
Like a mirror
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor/conductor
Eero Saunamäki, recorder/block flute/recorder
Programme:
J.S. Bach-A. Webern: Ricercare
Magnus Lindberg: Ritratto
Joonas Kokkonen: …through a mirror…
Tape: Mesolithic flute, 7000 BC.
Jukka Tiensuu: Appo
Johannes Brahms: Meditations on Haydn’s Theme op. 56/a
The concert lasts about 2,5 h, with an intermission. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 39/32/20 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
21.30 Tehdassali/Fabrikssalen/Factory Hall
Bach CCCXXXIII
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord/harpsichord
Audio tapes/ljudband/audiotapes
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Inventio No 1 in C major BWV 772
Ton de Leeuw: Study
Johann Sebastian Bach: Adagio and Fugue from Sonata for Violin in G minor BWV 1001 (arr. Gustav Leonhardt)
Erkki Kurenniemi: Inventory/Outventory
Johann Sebastian Bach: Inventio No 15 in B minor BWV 786
Juhani Nuorvala: Enharmonic series
Concert duration approx. 1 h, no intermission. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 30/25/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
12.00 Cathedral/Domkyrkan/Porvoo Cathedral
A summer song rises from the ashes
Programme:
Jukka Tiensuu: Festival fanfare 2018
Michel Corrette: Le Phenix
Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Meeting
C.Ph.E. Bach: Trio Sonata in E major, H. 580, Wq 162
Duration of the concert approx. 1 h. Free entry/ Fri entré/ Free entry
15.00 Little Church/Lilla kyrkan/The Little Church
Composition workshop
Programme:
Sipoon Music Technology Group*: Random, ke./uruppf./fp
Erika and Iris Härö: Suite for String Quintet in E minor, ke./uruppf./fp
Composition Workshop 2018: new works
* Pihla Junnila, Daniel Kuivalainen, Elviira Lehtonen, Daniel Pesonen
Duration of the concert approx. 1 h. Free entry/ Fri entré/ Free entry
18.00 Cathedral/Domkyrkan/Porvoo Cathedral
Poem
Sakari Oramo, conductor/conductor
Jean Schwiller, cello/cello (wax roll recording Edison Blue Amberol: 23016, 1910)
Marko Ylönen, cello/cello
Programme:
Usko Meriläinen: Concerto per 13
Auguste van Biene: The Broken Melody
Erkki Salmenhaara: Poem
Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony op. 110a
Concert duration approx. 1 h. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 30/25/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges). Joint ticket for Poema and Sacred Concerts 50/45/25 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
19.30 Cathedral/Domkyrkan/Porvoo Cathedral
Sacred Concerts
Anu Komsi, soprano/soprano/soprano
Marzi Nyman, organ/organ/organ
Programme:
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concerts
Concert duration approx. 1 h. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 30/25/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges). Joint ticket for Poema and Sacred Concerts 50/45/25 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
12.00 Tehdassali/Fabrikssalen/Factory hall
Original air date on
Eriikka Maalismaa, violin/violin
Frank Skog, statement/recitering/reciting
Jarkko Hartikainen: EMBODIED, Wed. Eriikka Maalismaa commissioned/uruppf./fp. Eriikka Maalismaa/beställning/commission
Bohuslav Martinů: Promenades
Georg Philipp Telemann: Ancient and modern peoples/J.L.Runeberg: Vårt land
Duration of the concert approx. 1 h. Free entry/ Fri entré/ Free entry
13.00 Avanti Hall/Avanti Hall/Avanti Hall
Young soloists – old music
Emmi Vesterinen, piano
Ilona Liiman, piano
Singers from Cantores Minores choir/sångare från Cantores Minores/singers from the Cantores Minores Choir
Programme/programme:
Leoš Janáček: Mládí
Karlheinz Stockhausen:Song of the younglings
Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat: Suscepit Israel BWV 243
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major K 595
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Nocturne op. 24
Concert duration approx. 1,5 h. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 30/27/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
18.00 Avanti Hall/Avanti Hall/Avanti Hall
O dröm
Anu Komsi, soprano/soprano/soprano
Frank Skog, statement/recitering/reciting
Kari Kriikku, basset clarinet/basset clarinet
Eero Manninen, piano
Sakari Oramo, violin/violin
Jukka Rautasalo, cello/cello
Avanti! quartet/Avanti! Quartet/Avanti! Quartet
Programme:
W.A.Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581
Jean Sibelius: Melodram ur Svartsjukans nätter, JS 125
Heinz-Juhani Hoffmann: Four songs to texts by Jussi Kylätasku Wed, commissioned by Anu Koms/urppf./fp. Anu Komsi/beställning/commission
Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet No. 2 op.10
Concert duration approx. 2 h, with an intermission. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 32/27/15 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
12.00 Factory hall/Fabrikssalen/Factory Hall
Children’s concert
József Hárs, conductor
Petri Bäckström, tenor/tenor
Krista Jäänsola, violin/violin
Sampo Lassila, double bass/contrabass/double bass
Programme:
Clara Clara, Jazz Whisky and a lost common tune
Lotta Wennäkoski: Spotted spider mice
Concert duration approx. 1 h. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 15 €, family ticket/Familj-biljetten (4 persons/personer/persons) 50 €. (+ Lippupiste delivery charges)
18.00 Avanti Hall/Avanti-salen/Avanti Hall
Final concert
Sakari Oramo, conductor/conductor
Anu Komsi, soprano /soprano/soprano
Ilkka Heinonen, horn/stråkharpa/Karelian bowed lyre
Marko Ylönen, cello/cello
Programme:
Iánnis Xenákis: Orient occident
Jouni Hirvelä: The mountain
Pehr-Henrik Nordgren: HATE – LOVE for cello and string orchestra op. 71
Claude Vivier: Bouchara
Trad./Feodor Pratšu: Trepatška
Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar op. 70
Robert Schumann: Sinfonia no 2 C op. 61
The concert lasts about 3 hours, with 2 intermissions. Tickets/biljetter/tickets 39/32/20 € (+ Lippupiste delivery charges).
The trio of designers of the summer concert, long-time Avant-gardists Timo Ahtinen, Hanna Juutilainen and Jukka Rautasalo, have cultivated an Avant-garde approach that covers music from as wide a time span as possible, with old and new running strongly side by side. Pernaja and Porvoo are also present in the choice of works. The subtitle of the festival is Är det här nytt, Avanti? Early Music Summer Play.
The traditional summer festival is held in the medieval church of Pernaja. The programme includes music from the 15th century to the present day, most recently three works by Olli Virtaperko, including the premiere of The Gods of Hämälä commissioned by Jukka Rautasalo.
The rich programme commemorates Mikael Agricola (c. 1510-1557), born into a peasant family in Torsby, Pernaja, who was sent from his home village to the Vyborg Latin School in the late 1510s. There he adopted his Latin surname Agricola, meaning farmer. The works in the Pernaja church concert include several of Agricola’s texts.
The official opening concert of the Summer Concert on Thursday 28 June at 19:00 will be conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk. Recorder artist Eero Saunamäki will be the soloist.
The festival fanfare composed by Jukka Tiensuu for this year’s Suvisoito will resound in Porvoo’s Tuomiokirko on Friday at 12.All Friday concerts will be played on the Church Hill, in Tuomiokirko and in Pikkukirko, where compositions by children from Porvoo will be heard. Friday evening will end with Duke Ellington tunes in Tuomiokirko, with Anu Koms and Marzi Nyman.
Saturday’s programme includes two premieres, Jarkko Hartikainen’s EMBODIED for solo violin and Heinz-Juhani Hofmann’s Kylätasku songs. Hartikainen’s work will be played by violinist Eriikka Maalismaa, who also commissioned the work. Jussi Kylätasku, who died in 2005, lived and worked in Porvoo for many years. The song cycle based on his texts was commissioned by soprano Anu Koms.
As always, Suvisoito also has a programme for children. On Sunday 1 July, the Klasariklaara and the Jazz Pisk will be performing at the Art Workshop, along with Lotta Wennäkoski ‘s Spider-Mic, sung by Petri Bäckström. The concert will be conducted by József Hárs.
33. The closing concert of the Summer Concert will include Pehr-Henrik Nordgren’s HATE – LOVE for cello and string orchestra op. 71. Soloist is cellist Marko Ylönen . The opening piece of the concert is Orient occident by Iánnis Xenákis. The other soloists in the concert conducted by Sakari Oramo are string artist Ilkka Heinonen and soprano Anu Komsi.
The programme, performers, ticket prices and festival bus timetable for the Summer Music Festival can be found here.
Tue 8.4.2025 at 19 | Musiikkitalo
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