This concert conducted by our Artistic Partner Topi Lehtipuu takes us to the scene of many turning points in the history of music, Vienna – a city that still eternalises the age-old musical traditions even today, with its New Year concerts and carnivals.
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.
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 competition prizes and renowned for his stage charisma and profound understanding of music, Piotr is sure to amaze us with his performance of the ever-popular […]
Interview with four Kymi Sinfonietta musicians: Raymond Cox (1st concertmaster), Linda Fogelsone (2nd concertmaster), Oliver Erlich (principal cello) and Karita Siljander (principal bassoon)
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 […]
Interview with the conductor and Kymi Sinfonietta Artistic Partner Topi Lehtipuu and soloists
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 […]
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 […]
Interview with the evening’s 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 […]
Interview with saxophonist and Kymi Sinfonietta Artistic Partner Jukka Perko