Shopping Angels

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 12.00
Place: Borgå Gymnasium

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Piia Komsi, soprano and cello
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

La Ronde by Vinko Globokar is a piece based on improvisation where musicians end up in a circle of social and musical problems. The performers cannot know how the work starts not to mention how it will end.

Cellist and soprano coloratura Piia Komsi will perform Sky shopping – Homage to Brahms by Yugoslavian-born Jovanka Trbojevic. In this breath-taking piece, the soloist will simultaneously perform the soprano and cello part.

Djuro Zivkovich is an internationally reclaimed composer whose music is not yet widely played in Finland. With the piece On the Guarding of the Heart, he received the significant Grawemeyer award in 2013.

All the composers of this concert are from former Yugoslavia.

Programme:

Vinko Globokar: La Ronde
Jovanka Trbojevic: Sky Shopping ‒ Homage to Brahms
Djuro Zivkovic: On the Guarding of the Heart

Tickets: 27€/ 22€/ 14€ + service fee

Composers’ workshop: Visual music

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 16.00 (free entrance)
Place: Factory Hall, Art Factory

József Hárs, conductor
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

As a part of the Summer Sounds festival, a young composers’ workshop will be organised at the Factory Hall. The students have created compositions to old avant-garde short films under the direction of masters Jukka Tiensuu and Tomi Räisänen.

Strange Strings

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 19.00
Place: Avanti Hall, Art Factory

Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!

Festival Friday will end with American violinist Jennifer Koh who will perform the well-known violin concerto by György Ligeti together with conductor Baldur Brönnimann at the Avanti Hall. Also, the Chamber Symphony for 23 Solo Instruments by Franz Schreker will present its exotic, abundant and glimmering sound texture.

Programme:
Richard Strauss: Introduction to “Capriccio”
György Ligeti: Violin concerto
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Franz Schreker: Chamber Symphony for 23 Solo Instruments (Langsam, schwebend – Allegro vivace – Adagio – Scherzo. Allegro vivace – Ziemlich bewegt – Langsam, schwebend)

Tickets: 40€/ 32€/ 20€ + service fee

Avanti! Lounge with Jennifer Koh

Time: Friday 28.6.2019 at 20.30 or when the concert at the Avanti Hall ends (free entrance)
Place: Avanti Hall Foyer, Art Factory

Jennifer Koh, violin

Late-night music with violinist Jennifer Koh can be enjoyed after the previous concert. Koh will perform Missy Mazzoli’s Kinski Paganini and other solo works commissioned by her. The festival bus to Helsinki will leave approximately at 21.30 or 15 minutes after the end of the concert.

Programme: Missy Mazzoli: Kinski Paganini and other pieces for solo violin commissioned by Jennifer Koh