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There is power in cooperation and Avanti! wants to show this autumn. We will kick off the autumn with a wide range of co-productions with a variety of cultural actors. The versatility of Avanti’s musicians will allow us to participate in opera and theatre productions as well as concerts combining jazz, rap and gospel music.

AUF: Bach as jazz – variations on Uri Caine’s Golberg

Avanti, UMO and FiBO, or AUF, will boldly take on Uri Caine’s Bach-Goldberg variations in their traditional joint concert in September. Paleface and the gospel choir Sounds of Mercy, conducted by Jepa Lambert, will perform as soloists. The concert will feature selected gems from the 70-part variations, rearranged for this unique ensemble. Wild, free and demanding interpretations tastefully collide baroque, arias, classical, jazz, disco and hip-hop. It’s an exhilarating and surprising genre pop!

AUF: Bach as jazz – Uri Caine Goldberg Variations
Tuesday 12.9.2023 at 19:00
Music House

In transit

As part of the Helsinki Opera Festival, we are involved in Opera Box’s production In transit. The opera is about people on the move. It’s about what it’s like to always be a stranger, what it’s like to feel like you belong everywhere. Above all, it is a story about desire, and the courage to surrender to desire. The opera is composed by Stefan Lindgren and based on the novel by Hannele Mikaela Taivassalon.The language of performance is Swedish, with subtitles in Finnish. Avant will be conducted for the first time by conductor Jonas Rannila.

In transit
31.8. at 19, 2.9. at 14 & 3.9. at 16
Alexander Theatre

the proximity of four days

We are collaborating with the WAUHAUS collective and Espoo City Theatre on Pipsa Longa’s play Four Days of Intimacy. The play explores the coexistence of humans and seagulls on a southern sunny beach over four days. The end result is a strangely comic, audiovisual performance about mortality, based on the coexistence of seagulls and humans on a beach resort.

The stage does not see a human being in the leading role, but brings the reality of seagulls alongside the human experience. A central theme of the performance is also the mortality we share with other species. As part of the performance, Avant will perform a composition by Kaija Saariaho, Cloud Trio.

Performances in the Revontulihall of Espoo City Theatre 12.9.-10.10.2023.
The language of the performance is Finnish, subtitles in Finnish and English with a mobile app.

four-day proximity
12.9.-10.10.2023
Revontulihalli, Espoo City Theatre

The meaning of zero

The premiere of The Meaning of Zero, a work for five dancers and two musicians, will take place in the Pannuhall of the House of Dance on 27 October. The work is a frenetic scientific and artistic exploration into the essence of zero. The concept of zero is of fundamental importance to human development, on which all modern technology rests. The performance connects mathematical thinking to the sprawling and surging energy of motion.

The work is the first collaboration between choreographer Petri Kekon and composer Ville Aslak Raasakka. The music is performed in collaboration with Avant. In addition to the choreographic content, we also search for the meaning of zero sonically and think of the whole as a synthesis of music and movement.

The meaning of zero
27.10. at 19, 28.10. at 19 & 31.10. at 19
Pannuhalli, Dance House

For more details and ticketing locations, see the Concerts tab.

Chamber Orchestra Avanti! has invited the composer and conductor Ondřej Adámek as the artistic designer of the 2024 Summer Music Festival in Avant.

TšAdámek (b.1979) is a composer from Estonia, known in particular for his search for new techniques for classical instruments, which gives his compositions an important timbre and form. His strong interest in different musical cultures of the world can be heard in his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works, which he has composed for for many prestigious ensembles, orchestras and contemporary music festivals in Europe.

Adámek’s compositions are also accompanied by new instruments, the most famous example of which is The Airmachine, a kind of air machine or instrument created with Carol Jimenez, which will also be shown at the 2024 festival in the form of short films.

The 2023 Summer Festival opened at Porvoo’s Town Hall Square with a composition by Adámek Coups d’ailes, and the 2024 Summer Music Festival will feature a large number of his works. Adámek will also conduct some of the concerts and bring to Porvoo some interesting soloists with whom he has already worked extensively in the past.

The Summer Play features the music of fearless artists

The concerts of Avant’s spring season have now been played and we thank our audience for the past season!

Summery Porvoo and Avant’s artists and staff are currently preparing for the upcoming Suvisoitto festival, which will take place in Porvoo and the surrounding area immediately after Midsummer for five days from 28 June to 2 July 2023. Dreamlands and Dystopias, showcases the diversity of music of our time. The programme features fresh music from emerging composers as well as more established contemporary composers. It will be an exciting and complex week of concerts.

There will be a particularly large number of Finnish premieres and they will be heard at each of the main Suvisoito concerts. There will be 20 Finnish premieres and two world premieres. The first world premiere will take place on Wednesday 28.6. Wolfgang von Schweinitzwill be played at our concert tonight. Friday 2.7. at the Art Factory Strange Rituals the concert will feature Antti Auvinen the world premiere of his highly anticipated new flute concerto, featuring the versatile Norwegian flutist, composer and sound artist Bjørnar Habbestad.

Other guest soloists this summer include sopranos who have previously worked with Avant. Faustine de Monés and Tuuli Lindeberg. Avant-garde for the public de Monés is familiar a staged ensemble version of Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone, performed last winter. She will perform in the opening concert of the Summer Opera on 29 June at the Kunsthalle, performing Claude Vivier’s already classic Lonely Child for soprano and ensemble. uuli Lindeberg will sing at the closing concert on 2.7. Vito Žuraj’s Ubuquity – a theatrical work for soprano and ensemble. Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo will perform as Avant’s soloist for the first time in two concerts: on Friday 30 June, performing a work by Hans Abrahamsen for solo piano and ensemble, and on Saturday 1 July, playing a collection of small works by various composers for solo piano in a concert. Musical Toys.

This year’s guest conductors for the Summer Music Festival are a young Finn enjoying the upswing of an international career Emilia Hoving and from the Netherlands, the energetic Bas Wiegers.

Avanti Club (K18) Sat 1.7. bears this year the name Dark Mirror. The club will enjoy Philippe Grammaticopoulos’ sharp and exciting short films about a possible world of the near future and music from John Zorn and Michael Daugherty.

Sat 1.7. and Sun 2.7. for families with children Red Nose CompanyThe Emperor’s New Clothes show takes on a new dimension in summer 2023 Marzi Nymanaccompanied by music composed and arranged by. The acting duo Timo Ruuskanen and Tuukka Vasamathe stage will also feature the luminous duo of Avant. The performance continues the inspiring collaboration weaved around the work of Aleksis Kivi.

The artistic design team for the 2023 Summerfest Unsuk Chin and Maris Gothóni warmly welcome the audience to the Summerfest and summarise the programme of their curated programme: “We argue that the ensemble reflects the visionary potential of music in uncertain times, incorporating dream worlds as much as dystopian fears.”

A warm welcome to Suvisoitto!

Avant’s Summer Play 28.6.-2.7.2023

Tickets for the Summer Concert are sold by Lippu.fi.