Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk is planning the 31st Avanti! Summer Concert. The 30th anniversary of the Summer Festival, which ended on Sunday, attracted around 3 000 people to a total of twenty concerts or events in Porvoo and Pernaja. .
Moscow-born Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk is a very familiar partner for Avant. “Avant and Suvisoitto have been a really important source of inspiration for me and also a kind of school of creativity. I’m looking forward to experiencing, experimenting and realising the wonderful world of music together next year,” says Slobodeniouk. Planning for next summer’s festival has already started and the programme will be announced in spring 2016.
Dima Slobodeniouk is currently Artistic Director of the Galician Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest of the Helsinki City Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. With Avant, Slobodeniouk has performed in Finland, Russia, China and Austria, in addition to several concerts in Finland. Slobodeniouk has collaborated extensively with contemporary composers such as Kalevi Aho, Sebastian Fagerlund, Jörg Widmann and Lotta Wennäkoski .
The 30th Summer Concert, which ended on Sunday 28 June, was designed by German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher. A total of 20 concerts or events took place in Porvoo and Pernaja over the five days, including seven free events around Porvoo. Festival buses again transported the public from Helsinki to the Art Factory and back.