Avanti! and the Finnish League for Nature Conservation have started a cooperation in the form of the Idyllistä to disaster concert. Avanti’s biggest concert of the autumn will take place on 8 November at 19:00 in Merikaapelihall and all ticket proceeds from the concert will be donated to climate work through the Finnish League for Nature Conservation.
Commenting on climate change, the programme around this theme starts idyllically and moves towards disaster. The Avant Symphony Orchestra under the baton of József Hárs, baritone Tommi Hakala and the Otaniemi Kaiku male choir under Tapani Länsiö take to the stage. The concert will also feature interesting expert talks by Mikael Fortelius , Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Palaeontology at the University of Helsinki, and Hannele Korhose, Research Professor at the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
The proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Finnish League for Nature Conservation through its work against climate change. Tickets for the concert are priced in four different categories, from which the audience can choose the amount that suits them best. Ticket prices range from €10 to €250, so that everyone has the opportunity to attend the concert and at the same time support the work against climate change. Ticket sales are now open. Join us to hear the music and words about the current state of the climate and do some good at the same time!
“Global warming can still be halted and its adverse effects adapted to. But it will require unprecedented social change. At the moment, we are heading towards a climate catastrophe. It threatens everything we love. Everyone is welcome to join us in working for a viable planet,” says Hanna Aho, conservation expert at the Finnish League for Nature Conservation.
Tommi Hakala has collaborated with numerous conductors and has performed major roles in opera productions at home and abroad, and has performed actively around the world. In this concert, Hakala will interpret two recitatives and an aria from Joseph Haydn’s oratorio Creation.
The ambitious and versatile male choir Otaniemi Echo, together with the Avant Orchestra, will perform Albert W. Ketelbey’s orchestral work In Monastery Garden. Other composers in the concert include Sibelius, Adams, Scriabin and Scielsi.
Tickets on sale at: https://tixfi.fi/fi/avanti/buyingflow/tickets/12219/7638
