You can enjoy music on site at the Musiikkitalo or watch a live stream for free at Helsinkikanava.fi. The online concert will be available from Tue 14 September 2021 at 7 pm for two weeks, until Tue 28 September 2021.
The concert will be broadcasted on Yle Radio 1 on Thu 16 September 2021 at 19:02. You can also listen to it at Yle Areena until Tue 12 October.… Lue lisää »
We’re happy to announce that audiences at home can also participate in this year’s Summer Sounds festival. We’re streaming couple of our concerts online at YouTube.
Online live concerts are:
A Concert Overture discovered among the manuscripts of works by Finland’s national composer Jean Sibelius has been premiered after a wait of 120 years. A piece referred to in the press as the overture to his opera The Maiden in the Tower was first heard at the Turku Fire Brigade Hall on 7 April 1900, with the composer himself conducting, and it was soon forgotten.
Conductor and Sibelius expert Tuomas … Lue lisää »
Avanti! is this year greatly multiplying its musical offering in Porvoo with a series of summer concerts in addition to its familiar Summer Sounds festival. This unique concert series will be enveloping the whole town and spreading out into its nearby villages for chamber recitals performed by small ensembles. Summer Sounds tickets will go on sale at 12 noon on Friday May 21, when it will also be possible to … Lue lisää »
Sassy music at the Art Factory
The 36th Avanti! Summer Sounds festival will present a varied concert menu in Porvoo from June 30 to July 4. The organisers are keeping an eagle eye on the latest official Covid regulations to ensure the safety of players and audience alike. “Only a very limited number of tickets will initially go on sale, but we’re hoping to increase the number the closer we … Lue lisää »
Avanti! is looking forward to the upcoming summer. Our planning for the Summer Sound Festival continues and the festival will be held in Porvoo from the 30th of June to the 4th of July – one way or another! More information about our program will be published later in the spring. So stay tuned!
With this compilation video from the Mini Summer Sound held last summer, you can go back … Lue lisää »
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 »
