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 to music chosen by Olari Elts and lighting effects by Niko Tiainen. The audience can look forward to a concert of astounding shades and effects […]
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 classics range in this concert from the early 17th-century Baroque to the 19th century in the company of masters of this impressive dramatic genre. At […]
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 programme for this concert curated by the leader of our second violins, Sergei Tiutiunik, includes three small-scale works brimming with late-Romantic longing in which 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 […]
For this concert we are honoured to welcome one of Finland’s most celebrated conductors, Osmo Vänskä, bringing with him three works full of light and joy. The other eagerly-awaited artists […]
The Kymi Sinfonietta welcomes German conductor Jascha von der Goltz, who gained widespread international attention on winning the first prize in the International Panula Conducting Competition in 2021. At the […]
The Kymi Sinfonietta begins its autumn season with a programme steeped in nostalgia, of standards deeply etched on the Finnish mindscape. Almost part of the national heritage, they are fertile ground for the interplay of different genres and for the magnificent arrangements of Marzi Nyman and Mikko Hassinen. In the process, many of the old […]
Kymi Sinfonietta organizes a unique concert, Mozartista Aviciihin, in collaboration with Kotka City Theatre. The versatile program of the concert includes both Mozart's classical productions and the most popular contemporary […]
Come and support our young local talents! The soloists in this concert conducted by Esa Heikkilä are all students at music colleges in the region and for them, playing with […]
Tonight’s conductor, Juha Kangas – “father” of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra – has reaped many accolades and distinctions in the course of an extensive and varied career both at home […]