SIBELIUS!

Conductor: Jukka Untamala

Soloist: Sueye Park, violin
Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 1 in E minor, Op. 23
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52

We are delighted to welcome Sueye Park, winner of the 2025 Sibelius Violin Competition, whose impressively assured sound convinced the jury. The deeply moving power and beauty of Sibelius’s musical language reflecting Finnish nature and spirit is crystallised in the most recorded violin concerto of the 20th century.
It raises the soloist’s role to extraordinary heights of technical virtuosity and profound expression. Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3, radiating a clarity reminiscent of the Viennese classics, and the expressive overture by Louise Farrenc – a driving force in 19th- century Parisian musical life – are interpreted under the direction of the versatile Jukka Untamala.