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The Glow of Tango from 1940’s to the present

Avanti! visits the Porvoo Art Factory Classics-series on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 19.00.

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Markus Allan, singer
Janne Nisonen, director
Minna Lindgren, conferencier

The tango came to Finland from Argentina in the early years of the 20th century, but it was only during and after World War II that Finnish tango emerged and took the nation by storm. Unlike its Argentinian predecessor, Finnish tango has a melancholy character, with its slow tempo and minor mode. The texts of Finnish tango music are focused on themes of lost love, nature, and a longing for a better place.

Tickets 27,50 €, Show & Dinner 67,00 €

Mon 18.4.2016 at 19
Temppeliaukio Church

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Juho Laitinen, cello
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola I
Henry Purcell: The Queen’s Funeral March
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 4. Eveil
Jukka Tiensuu: Kalasi
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 8. Comptine
Henry Purcell: Pavane & Chacony
Otto Luening: Low Speed
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola II
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont de Paris
Jukka Tiensuu: Story Opera Ballet: Concerto for Electric Cello and Ensemble n.d.

In the embrace of music, everything a person needs. From nursery rhyme to funeral and resurrection. Excitement, calm, celebration and abandonment. The electricity of the cello. The brilliance of trumpets. The dance, the sighs and the bells. A sweet symbiosis of the old and the new. (Jukka Tiensuu)

“Through rites of passage, a group of people repeatedly renews their sense of self and of belonging, while reinforcing the social nature of individuals”, said the anthropologist Émile Durkheim. The same can be said of Avant’s Riitti concert, which reaches from the solemnity of the Baroque to the futuristic celebrations of the 20th century. They prepare the listener for the birth of Jukka Tiensuu’s new electric cello concerto.

Tickets from Lippupiste 27,50/17,50 €
Buy tickets here!

Studio Stage, Media Centre Lume, Helsinki, Finland

Fri 13.5.2016 at 19
Sat 14.5.2016 at 19
Tue 17.5.2016 at 19
Thu 19.5.2016 at 19
Fri 20.5.2016 at 19
Sat 21.5.2016 at 19

Petri Kekoni Company
Avanti!
Petri Kekoni, choreography, concept and production
Jovanka Trbojevic, composition

Dancers:
Meeri Altmets, Tanja Illukka, Pekka Louhio, Saku Koistinen and Eero Vesterinen

Musicians:
Helmi Malmgren (cl), Angel Molinos (bcl), Harri Joy (bsn), Erkki Suomalainen (cbsn), Alexis Routley (horn)

Choreographer Petri Kekon’s latest work, Stop – the dark matter of art, sheds light on the hidden dark side of artistry with five dancers and five musicians. This powerful union of music and movement will premiere at Media Centre Lumee on 13 May 2016. The work will also premiere a composition by Jovanka Trbojevic, interpreted by Avant’s Wind Quintet.

Understanding requires a pause. Rhythm requires a break. Often it is the pause that makes the movement visible and allows us to gather the information we have previously seen in our minds. Few, however, are able to give the pause the value it deserves.

“What happens when nothing moves, no ideas are born, the artist has stopped? You can’t show this state to the outside world – the artist must always be an energetic, creative and inspiring person. Yet art requires pauses in order to evolve, just as dynamic movement requires pauses in order to create continuity. When does a movement end and when does the next one begin? The space between these events – the waiting space – is what we hunt for. The pause seeks to turn the pause, this ‘dark matter’ of art, into light.”

“When does the movement end and the next one begin? It is the space between these events – the waiting space – that we are hunting for. It is claimed that space is held together by a so-called dark matter, the composition of which we do not know. Could the various degrees of physical and mental stasis be the force that holds art together – its ‘dark matter’” – choreographer Petri Kekoni

Tickets 25/15€ – buy tickets here!

www.kekonico.fi

Thu 28.1.2016 at 8 pm
Dansehallerne, Store Scene

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
La Chambre aux échos
Aleksi Barrière, director
Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor

Kaija Saariaho: “La Passion de Simone”

Fri 29.1.2016 at 8 pm
Dansehallerne, Store Scene

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Jakob Kullberg, cello
Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor

“LYSET, MØRKET OG FARVERNE”
Niilo Tarnanen: Suspension (2013)
Kaija Saariaho: Notes on Light (2006)
Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg: Stringed Spaces II (2016)
Kaija Saariaho: Arc (1986)

http://www.njordbiennale.com/da/

Sat 19.3.2016 at 19:00
Verkatehdas, Hämeenlinna

Ismo Eskelinen, guitar
Ghatam Karthick, ghatam
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

Miguel De Fuenllana: Three fantasiaa
Alberto Ginastera: Sonata op. 47
Tan Dun: Concerto for Six, ekS
Subramaniam Karthick (sov. Eero Hämeenniemi): Friend of the listener (Rasikapriya)
Eero Hämeenniemi: Wood and Clay, Teos for guitar and ghatami, Wed.

Guitarist Ismo Eskelinen’s “World of Guitar – Global Guitar” concert at Verkatehta features the harmonic and precise polyphony of Western music meets the improvisational virtuosity of Asian music. From the Renaissance to India and China, Avant will be joined by Indian percussion guru Ghatam Karthick. Eero Hämeenniemi’s work for guitar and ghatam will be premiered and Tan Dun’s Concerto for Six will have its Finnish premiere.

For more information and tickets: http://www.verkatehdas.fi/tapahtumat/324