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Mon 31.10.2016 at 7 pm
Club G LIVELAB (Pieni Roobertinkatu 16, Helsinki)

Jukka Rautasalo, leader and violin
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Anthony Marini, violin and tenor violin
Ilkka Heinonen, horn and violone
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord and pump organ

Tickets 20 / 15 € from http://www.glivelab.fi/

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Fri 9.12.2016 at 19:30
Music House, Sonore Hall

Works by Sibelius Academy composition students for Avant Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk

In Klang 2016, Avanti will provide a platform for composition students at the Sibelius Academy. The concert features three pairs of works, each by two composers. The composers’ task is to make their pieces fit together and to think about their place in the concert. A large ensemble instrumentation is used, opening up the possibilities from solo to full sound. Composers need to be able to share ideas and meet each other, at least at the seams of the pieces. Where does one’s identity end and another begin?

Compositions:
Mioko Yokoyama – Walter Sallinen: new work
Saara Lindahl – Dante Thelestam: new work
Jaime Belmonte – Aleksejs Pegusevs: new work

Tickets including delivery 17,50 / 11,50 / 6,50 € from Ticketmaster or 15 / 10 / 5 € from the Musiikkitalo ticket office.

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Tue 20.9.2016 at 7 pm
Cable Factory, Merikaapelihalli

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, vocal
Jaakko Kortekangas, vocal
Petri Bäckström, vocal
Otaniemi Kaiku, choir
Pasi Heikura, host

The welfare state has taken ill as the commonplace goes. Can art provide the remedy?
Simultaneously with cuts being introduced, arts are being hailed as a form of therapy and funded with this end in mind. But should welfare music be cheery and simple? Can it be played in minor or does this fail to produce the greatest happiness to the greatest number? Could it be that a sign of true social welfare is art that is autonomous and free from all predetermined purposes?

It is a fact that music can cure many ills. Numerous studies have shown the positive effect of music on intelligence, learning and happiness. Of course, music may also allure you to deviate from the straight and narrow. In this concert, Avanti will both indulge in warning examples and demonstrate music’s healing power.

Carl Nielsen: At the Beer of a Young Artist op. 58
Giuseppe Verdi: Traviata. Act lll, prelude
Eduard Hermes: The Forest Man’s Drinking Song
Francis Poulenc: Banalités, No. 2, Hôtel
Kirmo Lintinen: Fitness opera, Leon aria
René Leibowitz: Marijuana variations non sériéuses
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
W.A.Mozart: Bastien and Bastienne, aria “Diggi, Daggi, Shurry, Murry…”

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Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight songs for a mad king, No. 1, The Sentry
Hildegard von Bingen: Ovirtus Sapientiae
Marain Marais: Gallstone surgery
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sean Beeson: Music for the treatment
W.A.Mozart: Symphony no 34 in C major, K 338 Allegro vivace, Andante di molto (piu tosto allegretto), Finale: Allegro vivace

Tickets €27.50 / €17.50, www.lippu.fi

Mon 31.10.2016 at 19:00
G LIVELAB -club (Pieni Roobertinkatu 16, Helsinki)

Jukka Rautasalo, music direction and viola da gamba
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Anthony Marini, violin and tenor viola
Ilkka Heinonen, horn and violone
Matias Häkkinen, harpsichord and harmonium

In Kapaka, you may be joined by drunken sailors and swaggering whores. Drunken mercenaries and brawlers should be identified immediately and avoided. Pickpockets, beggars and swindlers are also on the move.

In downtown pubs, reputable musicians organise a different kind of evening. The musicians find a public space in the taverns that is beyond the influence of the courts and the church. The Mitre Inn in London and Zimmermann’s coffee house in Leipzig are the stage for a new form of gathering, the public concert.

This was the case in the 17th century, the golden age of the gamba. In October in Helsinki, we’ll be coming to a tavern with gambas to see what kind of company we’ve found ourselves in. That’s where our music begins!

Music: Henry Purcell, John Eccles, Orlando Gibbons, Tobias Hume, Olli Virtaperko, as well as folk songs and beggar opera.

Tickets 20 / 15 € from http://www.glivelab.fi/

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Mon 18.4.2016 at 19
Temppeliaukio Church

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Juho Laitinen, cello
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola I
Henry Purcell: The Queen’s Funeral March
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 4. Eveil
Jukka Tiensuu: Kalasi
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 8. Comptine
Henry Purcell: Pavane & Chacony
Otto Luening: Low Speed
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola II
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont de Paris
Jukka Tiensuu: Concerto for electronic cello and ensemble

Music embraces all that the human needs. From nursery rhyme to funeral and resurrection. Quickening, quietening, celebrating, surrendering. An electrifying cello, brilliant trumpets. Dancing, sighing and the peeling of bells. Age-old and contemporary in sweet symbiosis. (Jukka Tiensuu)

“Participation in rites integrates the individual into a social order both in one’s day-to-day relationships of life and in those celebrations of the collective which bind [one] to the social entity as a whole,” as the anthropologist Émile Durkheim once put it. The same could be said of Avanti’s Rite concert, stretching from ceremonious Baroque to futuristic celebration, and preparing the listener for the birth of the new electronic cello concerto by Jukka Tiensuu.

Tue 20.9.2016 at 19.00
Cable Factory, Submarine Cable Hall

Avanti!
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, vocals
Jaakko Kortekangas, vocals
Petri Bäckström, vocals
Otaniemi Kaiku
Arto Vainio, bodybuilder
Pasi Heikura, plot

The welfare society is in a bad way, but could art help? Culture is being cut, but the art of care is being invested in. Can you play wellness music in a minor key, does it have to be harmless and simple? Or is it independent and free art that is welfare?

The concert begins with the diseases, vices and corpses. From the deathbed of a young artist, the story continues through lung disease to the Forest Man’s drinking song and the time when smoking was seen to have health benefits. The music takes a stand against gluttony and obesity, describes the hallucinations brought on by drugs, and mourns the death of a child who dies in his father’s arms when it is too far to get to a clinic. In the second half, the music will be care music. On stage, you’ll witness a urinary stone operation, hear how King George III reacts when he’s taken to a mental hospital, and enjoy some feel-good medieval church music. Among other things, the…

Music really is a cure for many ailments. According to researchers, music can boost intelligence, enhance learning and increase happiness. Music can also tempt you into bad ways and unhealthy habits. Avanti’s concert will provide cautionary tales, but also integrity and improvement. Come to an Avant concert and leave a better person!

Tickets including delivery 27,50 / 17,50 €, www.lippu.fi

PROGRAMME

Carl Nielsen: At the Beer of a Young Artist op. 58
Giuseppe Verdi: Traviata. Act lll, prelude
Eduard Hermes: Forest Man’s Drinking Song
Francis Poulenc: Banalités, No 2, Hôtel
Kirmo Lintinen: Fitness opera, Leon aria
René Leibowitz: Marihuana variations non sériéuses
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
W.A.Mozart: Bastien and Bastienne, aria “Diggi, Daggi, Shurry, Murry…”

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Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight songs for a mad king, No. 1, The Sentry
Hildegard von Bingen: Ovirtus Sapientiae
Marain Marais: Urolithotomy
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sean Beeson: Caring Music
W.A.Mozart: Symphony no 34 in C major, K 338 Allegro vivace, Andante di molto (piu tosto allegretto), Finale: Allegro vivace

The Glow of Tango from 1940’s to the present

Avanti! visits the Porvoo Art Factory Classics-series on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 19.00.

Avanti! Chamber Orchestra
Markus Allan, singer
Janne Nisonen, director
Minna Lindgren, conferencier

The tango came to Finland from Argentina in the early years of the 20th century, but it was only during and after World War II that Finnish tango emerged and took the nation by storm. Unlike its Argentinian predecessor, Finnish tango has a melancholy character, with its slow tempo and minor mode. The texts of Finnish tango music are focused on themes of lost love, nature, and a longing for a better place.

Tickets 27,50 €, Show & Dinner 67,00 €

Mon 18.4.2016 at 19
Temppeliaukio Church

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Juho Laitinen, cello
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola I
Henry Purcell: The Queen’s Funeral March
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 4. Eveil
Jukka Tiensuu: Kalasi
Pierre Henry: Variations pour une porte et un soupir: 8. Comptine
Henry Purcell: Pavane & Chacony
Otto Luening: Low Speed
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola II
Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont de Paris
Jukka Tiensuu: Story Opera Ballet: Concerto for Electric Cello and Ensemble n.d.

In the embrace of music, everything a person needs. From nursery rhyme to funeral and resurrection. Excitement, calm, celebration and abandonment. The electricity of the cello. The brilliance of trumpets. The dance, the sighs and the bells. A sweet symbiosis of the old and the new. (Jukka Tiensuu)

“Through rites of passage, a group of people repeatedly renews their sense of self and of belonging, while reinforcing the social nature of individuals”, said the anthropologist Émile Durkheim. The same can be said of Avant’s Riitti concert, which reaches from the solemnity of the Baroque to the futuristic celebrations of the 20th century. They prepare the listener for the birth of Jukka Tiensuu’s new electric cello concerto.

Tickets from Lippupiste 27,50/17,50 €
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Studio Stage, Media Centre Lume, Helsinki, Finland

Fri 13.5.2016 at 19
Sat 14.5.2016 at 19
Tue 17.5.2016 at 19
Thu 19.5.2016 at 19
Fri 20.5.2016 at 19
Sat 21.5.2016 at 19

Petri Kekoni Company
Avanti!
Petri Kekoni, choreography, concept and production
Jovanka Trbojevic, composition

Dancers:
Meeri Altmets, Tanja Illukka, Pekka Louhio, Saku Koistinen and Eero Vesterinen

Musicians:
Helmi Malmgren (cl), Angel Molinos (bcl), Harri Joy (bsn), Erkki Suomalainen (cbsn), Alexis Routley (horn)

Choreographer Petri Kekon’s latest work, Stop – the dark matter of art, sheds light on the hidden dark side of artistry with five dancers and five musicians. This powerful union of music and movement will premiere at Media Centre Lumee on 13 May 2016. The work will also premiere a composition by Jovanka Trbojevic, interpreted by Avant’s Wind Quintet.

Understanding requires a pause. Rhythm requires a break. Often it is the pause that makes the movement visible and allows us to gather the information we have previously seen in our minds. Few, however, are able to give the pause the value it deserves.

“What happens when nothing moves, no ideas are born, the artist has stopped? You can’t show this state to the outside world – the artist must always be an energetic, creative and inspiring person. Yet art requires pauses in order to evolve, just as dynamic movement requires pauses in order to create continuity. When does a movement end and when does the next one begin? The space between these events – the waiting space – is what we hunt for. The pause seeks to turn the pause, this ‘dark matter’ of art, into light.”

“When does the movement end and the next one begin? It is the space between these events – the waiting space – that we are hunting for. It is claimed that space is held together by a so-called dark matter, the composition of which we do not know. Could the various degrees of physical and mental stasis be the force that holds art together – its ‘dark matter’” – choreographer Petri Kekoni

Tickets 25/15€ – buy tickets here!

www.kekonico.fi

Thu 28.1.2016 at 8 pm
Dansehallerne, Store Scene

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
La Chambre aux échos
Aleksi Barrière, director
Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor

Kaija Saariaho: “La Passion de Simone”

Fri 29.1.2016 at 8 pm
Dansehallerne, Store Scene

Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Jakob Kullberg, cello
Clément Mao-Takacs, conductor

“LYSET, MØRKET OG FARVERNE”
Niilo Tarnanen: Suspension (2013)
Kaija Saariaho: Notes on Light (2006)
Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg: Stringed Spaces II (2016)
Kaija Saariaho: Arc (1986)

http://www.njordbiennale.com/da/