RAHA concert 4.10.2015

Old Student House at 19:00

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Pasi Heikura, presenter
Essi Luttinen, vocals
Joonathan Roozeman, cello
Kampayhtye
Otaniemi Kaiku, led by Tapani Länsiö
Kaisaniemi Primary School Choir, conducted by Kirsi Pettinen
Programme design Kari Kriikku and Antti Häyrynen

Money won’t make you happy, but Avant’s Money Concert will!
The economy teaches the art of making the right decisions, and Avant does not take its time. Now even music is being sliced, diced and adjusted, because everything can be done more cheaply and efficiently. Savings measures are being tried at the Sibelius Andante festival, the Karelia series Alla Marcia and Finlandia. Public education will be cut, but Avanti will teach regardless of class size. It’s not just about musical belt-tightening, but about continuous growth and sustainable development.

The participants include Avanti!, Jaakko Kuusisto, Essi Luttinen, Jonathan Roozeman, Otaniemi Echo and the Kaisaniemi Primary School music class choir. Finns will be guided along the road by Jean Sibelius, Johann Strauss Jr, Anton Webern, Morton Feldman, Hans Eisler and the old school songs. Avanti will also present its own improvised vision of the government’s Vision of the Future “Finland 2025 – Built Together”.

Tickets 30 / 20 €, www.lippu.fi

 

 

PROGRAMME:

Hans Eisler: There’s Nothing Quite Like Money

Works by Jean Sibelius cut from the civil service, cheese-grated and drastically adapted
Andante festive
Alla marcia from the Karelia series
Finlandia

The economy of abstraction
Anton Webern: 3 pieces for cello and piano op 11
Ludwig van Beethoven: Turkish March
Johann Strauss jr. (arr. Anton Webern): Treasure Waltz

*interim*

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Ruins of Athens – Allegro

Frank Loesser: Brotherhood of Man, musikaalista How to succeed in business without really trying

Cheerful school songs
Schoolboy’s marching song / Skiers’ song / Forward a bunch of young people

“Finland 2025 built together” A vision of Finland’s future, improvisation from a government text

A dream of continued growth
Jay Schwartz: Music for Orchestra III

Gamballa to Karelia 17.9.

17.9. 19.00 Porvoo Cathedral

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Jukka Rautasalo, gamba and baroque cello
Anthony Marini, gamba
Louna Hosia, gamba and horn
Ilkka Heinonen, violone and horn
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord

Purcell: Songs and Fantasies
Orlando Gibbons: Fantasies
Piae Cantiones tunes
Olli Virtaperko: Suite for treble tambourine n.s.
Olli Virtaperko: “Invitation” for horn, cello and soprano

Avanti!n Gambayhty and a cousin from Karelia
The violin became the queen of stringed instruments in the late 17th century, brilliant in its devilish skill and a soulful interpreter of singing melodies. But there are notes that the violin cannot reach. The viola da gamba ensemble plays as softly as the midsummer night mist on an English moor. The music comes from centuries ago, an equal polyphony where no one leads and no one sings.

Finland also has a tradition of knee-held stringed instruments, like the gamba. The Finnish bowman sings the ancient undertone of the Ugrian subconscious. Its unadorned and spiritual voice of truth has grown directly out of nature and the silence that surrounded the ancient Finns. Chamber music in which the English tradition of the exalted consort meets the obscurity of the Finnish log cabin.

STEVE REICH 19.8.2015

Musiikkitalo, concert hall at 19:00

 

Composing legend Steve Reich himself will join Avant in a concert featuring Reich’s lesser-known early work Pendulum Music, his new work Radio Rewrite and other works that have become classics. The concert is a co-production with Helsinki Festival.

Avanti! and Colin Currie Group
Thomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Marzi Nyman, electric guitar soloist
Timo Kurkikangas, sound design

Tickets 27,50 – 63,50 €

 

Avanti! 2014-2015

What is the hardest currency for both creative and performing artists? It’s inventing. Coming up with a great idea. Finding your own thing, so to speak.

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Dima Slobodeniouk designs Avant’s Summer Play 2016

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk is planning the 31st Avanti! Summer Concert. The 30th anniversary of the Summer Festival, which ended on Sunday, attracted around 3 000 people to a total of twenty concerts or events in Porvoo and Pernaja. .

Moscow-born Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk is a very familiar partner for Avant. “Avant and Suvisoitto have been a really important source of inspiration for me and also a kind of school of creativity. I’m looking forward to experiencing, experimenting and realising the wonderful world of music together next year,” says Slobodeniouk. Planning for next summer’s festival has already started and the programme will be announced in spring 2016.

Dima Slobodeniouk is currently Artistic Director of the Galician Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest of the Helsinki City Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. With Avant, Slobodeniouk has performed in Finland, Russia, China and Austria, in addition to several concerts in Finland. Slobodeniouk has collaborated extensively with contemporary composers such as Kalevi Aho, Sebastian Fagerlund, Jörg Widmann and Lotta Wennäkoski .

The 30th Summer Concert, which ended on Sunday 28 June, was designed by German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher. A total of 20 concerts or events took place in Porvoo and Pernaja over the five days, including seven free events around Porvoo. Festival buses again transported the public from Helsinki to the Art Factory and back.

Festival bus from Helsinki directly to Porvoo and back

Fast and cheap from Helsinki directly to Porvoo and back.
Departures from Helsinki in front of Kiasma from Mannerheimintie charter bus stop, return from Porvoo in front of Taidetehta.

GO BACK
Thu 25.6. 17.30 Kiasma – Kunstehdas 21.15 Kunstehdas – Kiasma
Fri 26.6. 16.30 Kiasma – Kunstehdas 22.15 Kunstehdas – Kiasma
Sat 27.6. 16.30 Kiasma – Kunstehdas 22.15 Kunstehdas – Kiasma
Sun 28.6. 16.30 Kiasma – Kunstehdas 20.15 Kunstehdas – Kiasma

One-way trip 10 €, including service charge.

Tickets at the ticket office and directly from the bus if there are seats left.

Summer Music pop up concerts in restaurants in Porvoo

Avant’s Suvisoitto will once again be visiting restaurants in Porvoo. Come and see what the music tastes like in an idyllic restaurant setting! The concerts are free of charge.

Fri 26.6.

approx. at 13.30, For example (Rihkamakatu 2)
Clarinet Trio

ca. 14:00, Restaurant Timbal (Jokikatu 43)
Bassoon Trio

approx. 15.30, Café Cabriole (Piispankatu 30)
Pasi Eerikäinen, violin and Emil Holmström, piano

Sat 27.6.

approx. 16:00, Wanha Laamanni (Vuorikatu 17)
Käyrätorvikvartetti

Sun 28.6.

approx. 13.30, Restaurant Fryysarinranta (Jokikatu 20)
Kati Kuusava and Anna-Leena Haikola, violin, Tuula Riisalo, viola and Sami Mäkelä, cello

 

Maati Rehor appointed as Avant’s new Executive Director

Maija Kylkilahti, who has been Avant’s Executive Director since 2012, will take over as the Helsinki Festival’s classical music producer on 1 August and has been replaced by Maati Rehor, Master of Music. Rehor has been working in the music industry for 20 years, first as a musician and vocal teacher, then in various production positions, including at the Sibelius Academy, for concerts, tours and festivals, as well as in productions for domestic and international professional events. Rehor joins Avanti from the position of Executive Director of the Finnish Jazz Federation, a position he has held since 2008.

Avanti warmly welcomes Rehori to the team!

 

YLE #culturalinterview: avanti!

“Art is a language that everyone understands. It connects people, countries and nations. Art should be everyday. The right to art belongs to everyone. The autonomy of art must not be compromised.” Raija Vahasalo, Member of Parliament.

Watch Avant’s video commentary on Vahasalo’s reflection .