EMOTIONAL ENCOUNTERS concert series: “Yearning” – The Colours of Longing

Conductor: Elisar Riddelin

Soloist: Joonas Ahonen, piano
Zoltán Kodály: Nyári este (Summer Evening)

Matei Gheorghiu: From the Village of Nowhere (piano concerto)
Ottorino Respighi: Gli uccelli (The Birds), P.154
Manuel de Falla: Suite No. 1 from the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat

This concert is full of colour and atmosphere – and we also witness the return of a competition winner. There is already a hint of spring in the air, and these painterly musical images draw their shades from the beauty of nature, the fire of emotion and playful rhythms. Matei Gheorghiu’s piano concerto led him to victory in both the 5th
International Uuno Klami Composition Competition and the audience vote; the jury described the work as energetic and fresh. The soloist is the dazzlingly virtuosic Joonas Ahonen. On the podium is one of today’s most exciting young talents, Elisar Riddelin.