To honour its 25th anniversary, the Kymi Sinfonietta welcomes an old friend: Yasuo Shinozaki, our Artistic Director from 2007 to 2014. With him he is bringing one of the best-known works in the orchestral repertoire, Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.
The best-loved and most beautiful Christmas songs in versions radiating warm, seasonal cheer jointly created by the Kymi Sinfonietta, pupils from Kouvola schools, conductor Jonas Rannila and soprano Emilia Vesalainen-Pellas. […]
Evergreens from the world of film tonight get a wonderful hearing in arrangements by Kotka’s own son, composer-jazz trombonist Antti Rissanen ranging from American classics to Finnish film tunes. Conjuring […]
Evergreens from the world of film tonight get a wonderful hearing in arrangements by Kotka’s own son, composer-jazz trombonist Antti Rissanen ranging from American classics to Finnish film tunes. Conjuring […]
Our Artistic Partner Topi Lehtipuu joins forces with the Kymi Sinfonietta, four internationally-celebrated soloists, the Somnium Ensemble and four great composers. Bach composed his Cantata BWV 105 in 1723, for […]
Tonight we have a chance to spend the evening in the musical company of the Polish winner of the most recent Maj Lind Piano Competition, Piotr Pawlak. Winner of many […]
This programme is part of the “Waves! Light and Sound in Kotka" festival The interplay of light, water and colour floods the concert hall in this fantastic work of art […]
Opera is Italy’s gift to the world, and to guide us on our journey to its very sources is one of our two new Artistic Partners, Topi Lehtipuu. The sparkling […]
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninov – a composer, first-rate pianist and conductor who ended up emigrating from Russia to the United States. The […]
The Kymi Sinfonietta’s ultra-popular series of movie concerts continues with the evergreen Chaplin classic The Gold Rush, with a live accompaniment to the original silent movie of 1925. Chaplin composed the score in 1942, and it has since been arranged for live performances of the 1925 version by Timothy Brock. Based on the plot of […]
The Kymi Sinfonietta’s ultra-popular series of movie concerts continues with the evergreen Chaplin classic The Gold Rush, with a live accompaniment to the original silent movie of 1925. Chaplin composed the score in 1942, and it has since been arranged for live performances of the 1925 version by Timothy Brock. Based on the plot of […]
Works by the early Classical era feature far less often in the repertoire of the orchestral giants than those by Mozart or Haydn. Tonight is therefore a major exception, focusing as it does on compositions by two of the great Johann Sebastian’s sons: Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann. The programme also includes a Fantasia […]