The 35th Summer Sounds festival of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra is to be postponed for one year to 2021, when it will be held in Porvoo from June 30 to July 4. The decision was made by the Avanti! Board at its meeting on Monday, April 27.
“It’s a regrettable situation for everyone,” says the orchestra’s Acting Executive Director Jussi Rauvola. “Though some of the Summer Sounds events will not … Lue lisää »
Tue 15.9.2020 19.00
The Helsinki Music Centre
Heikki Kossi, foley artist
Antti Tikkanen, violin
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO)
The second cooperation concert by the AUF orchestras demonstrates how recycled junk sounds in the hands of a foley artist, what Vivaldi’s Seasons sound like in a remix version, and what kind of links there are between the concert’s pieces and the world of … Lue lisää »
The theatrical ensemble version of Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone will have its Helsinki premiere in The Helsinki Music Centre in Easter 2020. La Passion de Simone offers a new kind of Easter experience, even for those with long Easter traditions.Through its philosophical perspective the oratorio appeals also to the younger audience.
A Paris-based music theatre company, La Chambre aux échos commissioned the chamber orchestra version of the oratorio … Lue lisää »
SAT 8.2.2020 19.00
Juhlasali G18 (Yrjönkatu 18, Helsinki)
Avanti! celebrates the 50th anniversary of the composer Lotta Wennäkoski in a concert, performing four of her most significant chamber orchestra works. Among the orchestral pieces, Wennäkoski will be seen on stage as well, performing Hungarian folk songs.
Jósef Hárs, conductor
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo-soprano
Eero Saunamäki, recorders
Heikki Nikula, bass clarinet
Ville Syrjäläinen, percussion
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Lotta Wennäkoski:
I … Lue lisää »
SAT 28.3.2020 13.00
The Helsinki Music Centre
Marzi Nyman (quitar), Arttu Takalo (vibraphone) and Tero Toivonen (French horn) are back together with string quartet from Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. The repertoire of the concert, a rich fusion of jazz, classical and popular music, is composed mainly by the soloists. Nothing is what it seems, but everything is exactly what it sounds like!
The concert is part of AUF concert series, produced … Lue lisää »
Avanti! Summer Sounds XXXIV will arrive in Porvoo on 26 – 30 June 2019. This year the programme has been created by Swiss Baldur Brönnimann. As the theme for 2019 is City of Music, the music will enter the streets and cafés of Porvoo to paint a multitude of thoughts and feelings on the streets and walls of Porvoo with an imaginary paintbrush.
Finland’s premiere of Teoton composed by … Lue lisää »
Tickets: Lippupiste
19.00 Pernajan kirkko/Pernå kyrka/Pernaja Church
Agricolan kotikonnuilla
Tuuli Lindeberg, sopraano/sopran/soprano
Jukka Rautasalo, diskanttigamba ja musiikinjohto/diskantgamba och musikledning/Treble viol and leading
Anthony Marini, tenorigamba/tenorgamba/Tenor viol
Louna Hosia, bassogamba ja jouhikko/basgamba och stråkharpa/Bass Viol and Karelian bowed lyre
Ilkka Heinonen, jouhikko ja violone/stråkharpa och violone/Karelian bowed lyre and violone
Matias Häkkinen, cembalo ja … Lue lisää »
This year’s Summer Sounds will see Avanti! hosting free concerts in the Porvoo city centre again. Launched last year to great success, the concerts are intimate and accessible titbits from the festival programme. 100 % Avanti!-quality easily accessible to all Porvoo city-dwellers! Some picks from this year’s free programme include Polish sung poetry by duo Agata Zubel-Joonas Ahonen, the energetic and intensive trio Süle-Lahti-Nikula, and the fruits of young composers’ … Lue lisää »
XXXII Edition of Avanti’s Summer Sounds: “Chantefables – Songs and Sagas” Wed 28 Jun – Sun 2 Jul, Porvoo and Loviisa
Sonatas, juggling, free concerts and criticism of consumerism – Avanti’s Summer Sounds 2017 offer all this and a lot more!
Avanti’s 32nd Summer Sounds Festival will be spanning five days in late June and early July. An already-traditional head start on the festival will be made on 28 June … Lue lisää »
In spring 2017, Chamber Orchestra Avanti! treats the audience to a colourful selection of classical and contemporary music – without forgetting choice Baroque-era hits. The highlight of the season will be concert Kevään lumous (The Spell of Spring), with the dramatic soprano Karita Mattila dazzling in the lead. A premiere of a new orchestral piece by Lauri Kilpiö will open the concert.
Avanti!’s spring season comprises three concerts: in February … Lue lisää »
