Avanti’s fall season 2016 concerts published

Avanti! will perform with three versatile programs during the fall season. The concerts vary from a thematic orchestra concert at the Cable Factory to an early music club gig with periodic instruments all the way to contemporary new music concert at the Helsinki Music Centre.

See all concerts and ticket information here.

KLANG: Play on! 9.12.2016

Fri 9.12.2016 at 7:30 pm
Helsinki Music Centre, Sonore-hall

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

Klang 2016 sees Avanti premiere pieces by the composition students of the Sibelius Academy.
The programme consists of three pairs of compositions, each penned by two aspiring writers. While facing the challenge of overall coherence and ensuring that their piece is in unison with that of their pair’s, the composers have also a unique chance to explore the range of instrumentation possibilities that the large ensemble opens up. For seamless, vignette-like transitions, they will have to enter into a dialogue and have the readiness to meet each other halfway. Where does one’s identity begin and end, or can two become one?

Compositions:
Mioko Yokoyama – Walter Sallinen: new work
Saara Lindahl – Dante Thelestam: new work
Jaime Belmonte – Aleksejs Pegusevs: new work

Tickets 17,50 / 11,50 / 6,50 € from Ticketmaster or 15 / 10 / 5 € from the Music Centre’s ticket sales.

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www.klanghelsinki.fi

Autumn concerts published!

Avant’s autumn season includes three completely different packages. There will be a themed orchestra concert at the Cable Factory, an early music club concert, and a new music concert Klang at the Music Hall.

See all concerts and ticket information here.

Lotta Wennäkoski in charge of the programme for Summer Sounds 2017

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Composer Lotta Wennäkoski will be planning the programme for 32nd Avanti Summer Sounds festival, to be organised on 28 June – 2 July 2017. This year’s Summer Sounds Festival, which consisted of fourteen concerts and other events in Porvoo and Pernaja, was attended by an audience of roughly 3 000 people.

Lotta Wennäkoski was the artistic co-ordinator of The Tampere Biennale Festival in 2008-2010 and the composer-in-residence of Tapiola Sinfonietta during the season 2010-2011. Her compositions have been performed widely in Finnish and international concert halls and festivals, including The Helsinki Festival, Musica Nova, Märzmusik Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and The Other Minds Festival. She has also composed a number of commissioned works for the likes of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

“I was very flattered and surprised by the invitation to become the artistic co-ordinator of the Summer Sounds. It will be a very exciting opportunity to plan the programme for a festival that delivers chamber and orchestral, classical and contemporary music. What a range of possibilities that opens up!” says Wennäkoski.

Closed on 3 July, this year’s Summer Sounds was curated by Moscow-born Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk. The five-day festival saw fourteen concerts and other events, six of which free, take place around Porvoo and Pernaja. In all, the festival was attended by roughly 3 000 visitors. Like in previous years, a bus service operated between Helsinki and the Art Factory, taking visitors to the festival and back during the festival.

The principal supporters of the Summer Sounds are the City of Porvoo, Aktiasäätiö, Neste, Porvoo Art Factory and the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

Avanti! warmly thanks the festival audience and supporters and wishes all friends of the orchestra a wonderful summer!

Raise your glass to the viol 31.10.2016

Mon 31.10.2016 at 7 pm
Club G LIVELAB (Pieni Roobertinkatu 16, Helsinki)

Jukka Rautasalo, leader and violin
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Anthony Marini, violin and tenor violin
Ilkka Heinonen, horn and violone
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord and pump organ

In a public house, one may find oneself in the company of rowdy sailors and coquettish harlots. If you wish to avoid trouble, it is best to stay out of the way of drunken soldiers and hot-headed brawlers. Of course, one must be watchful of pickpockets, beggars and tricksters, too.
Respected musicians held different sorts of soirées in urban taverns. Playing host to a new sort of entertainment – the public concert – such as The Mitre Inn in London and Zimmermann’s Coffee House in Leipzig were zones free from the influence of the clergy and the court.
This was life in the 17th century, the golden age of the viol.
In October, we will take our viols to the familiar scene of their ancestors: the pub. Where we go from there – let that be determined by the clientele and the atmosphere!

Tickets 20 / 15 € from http://www.glivelab.fi/

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KLANG: So long! 9.12.2016

Fri 9.12.2016 at 19:30
Music House, Sonore Hall

Works by Sibelius Academy composition students for Avant Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk

In Klang 2016, Avanti will provide a platform for composition students at the Sibelius Academy. The concert features three pairs of works, each by two composers. The composers’ task is to make their pieces fit together and to think about their place in the concert. A large ensemble instrumentation is used, opening up the possibilities from solo to full sound. Composers need to be able to share ideas and meet each other, at least at the seams of the pieces. Where does one’s identity end and another begin?

Compositions:
Mioko Yokoyama – Walter Sallinen: new work
Saara Lindahl – Dante Thelestam: new work
Jaime Belmonte – Aleksejs Pegusevs: new work

Tickets including delivery 17,50 / 11,50 / 6,50 € from Ticketmaster or 15 / 10 / 5 € from the Musiikkitalo ticket office.

www.uniarts.fi

www.klanghelsinki.fi