The Kymi Sinfonietta’s May Day concerts herald the advent of spring with a programme of cheerful music in the company of top artists. Setting the tone of this light-hearted concert […]
As our guest we welcome one of today’s most celebrated French horn virtuosos, Radovan Vlatković – a player who has made the horn known by performing, recording and teaching the world over. At the heart of the concert is Mozart’s elegant Horn Concerto No. 3. Also on the programme is the Concertino for French Horn […]
We immerse ourselves in the reassuring, optimistic message of Easter as we listen to Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross. He composed it in 1786, describing each of the seven words in ten minutes of glorious music. He prefaced them with an Introduction, and ended with an Earthquake. The meditative, moving […]
Tonight we join forces with conductor-tenor Topi Lehtipuu, the Somnium vocal ensemble and three soloists for a spectacular evening of drama and dance. Representing ballet is Stravinsky’s Apollon Musagète, a work of classical themes, characters and dances. Our operatic gems are plucked from works by Rameau, an orchestral genius cleverly drawing on different operatic genres, […]
Take a musical journey to Salasaari, an island shrouded in candy-floss mist. Two plucky travellers in a hot-air balloon will be spying on the island’s secrets and hidden passages, culminating […]
In honour of Women’s Day we present music by magnificent women composers from different eras and genres. The broad-minded attitude to music of tonight’s conductor, Aliisa Neige Barrière, is reflected […]
A concert steeped in atmosphere focusing on Arvo Pärt, pillar of Estonian classical music and one of his nation’s best-known contemporary composers. Tonight’s conductor is another Estonian, Tōnu Kaljuste: Estonian […]
Symphonie du Concert Municipal des Honorables Villes de Kotka et d'Helsinki The Kymi Sinfonietta has begun collaborating with the highly-acclaimed Baroque Ensemble Nylandia. Founded by harpsichordist and keyboard player Matias […]
In 1997, Samuli Edelmann released an album called Vaiheet that soon achieved cult status. It featured settings by his father, Toni Edelmann, of texts by Goethe, Hesse, Shakespeare and others. The album was a major recording project with a symphony orchestra in Paris, but Edelmann has never before performed it in full with an orchestra […]
Artists now shooting to fame hold us spellbound in the first symphony concert of the spring season. As our guest we welcome Taiwan-born Tung-Chieh Chuang, a conductor whose talent has been demonstrated in a number of competitions and worldwide fixtures. Jiyoon Lee is first concertmaster of the prestigious Staatskapelle Berlin and a soloist whose passionate, […]
Providing a stimulating foretaste of spring is the Frigg folk music ensemble led by Janne Nisonen. The world music media have playfully coined the perfect word to describe Frigg’s distinctive […]
The Christmas concerts by the Rajaton vocal ensemble have, over the years, become something of a byword. Their atmospheric music and brilliant unaccompanied singing bring the spirit of Christmas alive at concert halls the length and breadth of Finland.