SEASON OPENING CONCERT
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Taavi Oramo
Artists
Conductor and vocal soloist:
Taavi Oramo
Harp soloist:
Päivi Severeide
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Poem reader / poet:
Auli Särkiö
Program

Claude Debussy:
Dance sacrée et danse profane

Heta Aho:      
Two Tanka songs: 
Älä hymyile
Illalla jätän

Three songs to Edith Södergran's poems:
Ett yndelsiga havet
Du som aldrig
Revance

Claude Debussy:  
La Mer est plus belle

Auli Särkiö:  
Maritime poems

 

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VELVETY STRINGS
  • Kotka Concert Hall
Raymond Cox Linda Fogelsone Samettiset jouset
Artists
Leader
Raymond Cox
Soloist
Linda Fogelsone, violin
Program

Jean Sibelius:
Suite for violin and strings, soloist: Linda Fogelsone
Leoš Janáček:
Idyll, suite for string orchestra
Philip Glass:
Movement from Symphony No. 3 for string orchestra
Einojuhani Rautavaara:
Divertimento

WINDS GO RAGTIME
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kouvola Town Hall
Puhaltajien Ragtime
Artists
Program

Scott Joplin:
Overture to the opera ‘Treemonisha’
George Gershwin:
Excerpts from the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’
Ferenc Farkas:
Old Hungarian Dances
Carl Orff:
Excerpts from ‘Carmina Burana’  (arr. Friedrich K. Wanek)

THE HEART OF RIO
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Pato Club, Kuusankoski
Soulful works by Rio de Janeiro maestros Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Edu Lobo and others in the loving hands of Visa, Vova and Ville.
Visa Haarala
Artists
Soloists
Visa Haarala, flugelhorn
Vladimir Belov, vibraphone
Ville Herrala, bass
Program
DAZZLING BRILLIANCE
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
This concert spotlights some of the Kymi Sinfonietta’s own players under its leader Raymond Cox. Many will recognise them from their charismatic performances on social media. Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante brings out the finest characteristics of each of the solo instruments, drawing them together in a work that is full of playfulness and delightful humour. Regarded as a great humourist in classical music, Haydn also had an extremely keen feel for narrative and contrast. These attributes also join hands in his Symphony No. 80, in which humour finally has the last word.
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Artists
Leader
Raymond Cox
Soloists
Auli Kontinen, flute
Dimas Ruiz Santos, oboe
Karita Siljander, bassoon
Janne Laine, horn
Program

W. A. Mozart:                     
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat for four winds and orchestra

Joseph Haydn:                    
Symphony No. 80

ENCHANTING CELLO
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Johanthan Roozeman Olari Elts
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Soloist
Jonathan Roozeman, cello
Program

Joseph Haydn:
Cello Concerto in C

Aaron Copland:
Appalachian Spring suit

A TRIBUTE TO UUNO KLAMI ON THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
  • Kotkan konserttitalo
Esa Ylönen, pianist and Chairman of the Uuno Klami Society, joins players from the Kymi Sinfonietta in an appealing concert of charming chamber music by Uuno Klami, a composer from Virolahti in SE Finland, on the 120th anniversary of Klami’s birth. This concert is a unique opportunity to hear some of Klami’s lesser-known and seldom-performed works with a presenter to provide some background information. Dedicated to the music of Uuno Klami, Esa Ylönen and composer Eero Kesti have done much to make Klami’s chamber music more easily accessible to players by editing works by him (published by Fennica Gehrman). The programme will include two movements from the Piano Quartet in D considered to be the best work composed by Klami as a student, and one of his most entertaining pieces, Rag-Time & Blues for clarinet, trumpet, piano and two violins. There will also be a few light gems in nostalgic Viennese vein.
Klami-iltamat
Artists
Program

Uuno Klami:                      

Piano Quartet in D

Berceuse for violin and piano

Souvenir, waltz for violin and string quartet

Rag-Time & Blues for clarinet, trumpet, piano and two violins

Humoresque, Op. 36, No. 1

Chanson triste, Op. 36, No. 2

Valses lentes et amoureuses 

TAAVI ORAMO IN FOCUS
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kouvola City Hall
Rising, multi-talented musician and conductor Taavi Oramo makes his debut with us, as does the commission from Sauli Zinovjev.
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Artists
Conductor & soloist
Taavi Oramo
Program

Sauli Zinovjev:                  
Un Grande Sospiro (commissioned by the Kymi Sinfonietta, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne)

G. Mahler/A. Schönberg:  
Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen

Joseph Haydn:                   
Symphony no. 101, “Clock”

TAAVI ORAMO IN FOCUS
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kouvola City Hall
Rising, multi-talented musician and conductor Taavi Oramo makes his debut with us, as does the commission from Sauli Zinovjev.
Taavi Oramo
Artists
Conductor & soloist
Taavi Oramo
Program

Sauli Zinovjev:         
Un Grande Sospiro (commissioned by the Kymi Sinfonietta, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne)

G. Mahler/A. Schönberg:  
Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen

Joseph Haydn:                  
Symphony no. 101, “Clock”

“GRAND EMOTIONS ON THE SILVER SCREEN”
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Items by well-known composers for the silver screen in a concert that well demonstrates the role of music in creating events and moods.
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Artists
Conductor
Eero Lehtimäki
Program
“GRAND EMOTIONS ON THE SILVER SCREEN”
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Items by well-known composers for the silver screen in a concert that well demonstrates the role of music in creating events and moods. 
Eero Lehtimäki
Artists
Conductor
Eero Lehtimäki
Program
BEETHOVEN – RADICAL GURU III
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
One of the high points of the Beethoven jubilee: a work commissioned from Jarkko Hartikainen sets the scene for Beethoven’s mighty Eroica symphony. Some much-loved French music finds ace flautist Sharon Bezaly in sentimental mood.
Sharon Bezaly Sharon Bezaly
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Soloist
Sharon Bezaly, flute
Program

Witold Lutosławski:          
Preludes       

Nicolas Bacri:                    
Flute Concerto

Claude Debussy:               
Syrinx
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Jarkko Hartikainen:           
New work commissioned by Kymi Sinfonietta, world premiere

L. van Beethoven:             
Symphony no. 3, “Eroica”

BEETHOVEN – RADICAL GURU III
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
One of the high points of the Beethoven jubilee: a work commissioned from Jarkko Hartikainen sets the scene for Beethoven’s mighty Eroica symphony. Some much-loved French music finds ace flautist Sharon Bezaly in sentimental mood.
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Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

Witold Lutosławski:          
Preludes       

Nicolas Bacri:                     
Flute Concerto

Claude Debussy:                
Syrinx
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Jarkko Hartikainen:            
New work commissioned by Kymi Sinfonietta, world premiere

L. van Beethoven:             
Symphony no. 3, “Eroica”

“RINGING IN THE PAST”
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Fantastic wind instruments both ancient and new. Anything can become music in the hands of multi-instrumentalist Abraham Cupeiro. The conductor is one of the Kymi Sinfonietta’s own musicians, principal oboe Dimas Ruiz Santos. Together they have just returned from recording some of the works on this programme with one of London’s top orchestras.   NOTE! Public dress rehearsal earlier in the day at 12.30.Advance notice required: toimisto@kymisinfonietta.fi or 05-2344891
Dimas Ruiz Santos Abraham Cubeiro Cubeiro Cubeiro
Artists
Conductor
Dimas Ruiz Santos
Soloist
Winds wizard Abraham Cupeiro
Program

Joaquín Rodrigo
Johan Daniel Berlin
Abraham Cupeiro
Carlos Vázquez 
Béla Bartók

“RINGING IN THE PAST”
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Fantastic wind instruments both ancient and new. Anything can become music in the hands of multi-instrumentalist Abraham Cupeiro. The conductor is one of the Kymi Sinfonietta’s own musicians, principal oboe Dimas Ruiz Santos. Together they have just returned from recording some of the works on this programme with one of London’s top orchestras.   NOTE! Public dress rehearsal earlier in the day at 12.30. Advance notice required: toimisto@kymisinfonietta.fi or 05-2344891
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Artists
Conductor
Dimas Ruiz Santos
Program

Joaquín Rodrigo – Johan Daniel Berlin – Abraham Cupeiro – Carlos Vázquez – Béla Bartók

BEETHOVEN – RADICAL GURU II
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Star guest Viviane Hagner as the soloist in Beethoven’s every-popular Violin Concerto. Jörg Widman provides a snappy opening before Beethoven’s sunny, cheerful 8th Symphony.
Olari Elts Viviane Hagner
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Soloist
Viviane Hagner, violin
Program

Jörg Widmann: 
Con brio       

L. van Beethoven: 
Symphony no. 8
Violin Concerto

BEETHOVEN – RADICAL GURU II
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Star guest Viviane Hagner as the soloist in Beethoven’s every-popular Violin Concerto. Jörg Widman provides a snappy opening before Beethoven’s sunny, cheerful 8th Symphony.
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Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

Jörg Widmann:                  
Con brio       

L. van Beethoven:             
Symphony no. 8
Violin Concerto

BAROQUE CONCERT
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kouvola City Hall
Rich and colourful music of the Baroque: splendid arias by George Frideric Handel in which the soloist is Tuuli Lindberg, one of Finland’s finest Baroque singers, accompanied by a large orchestra. The orchestral music of Rameau is an enchanting mix of colour and invention.
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Artists
Leader
Raymond Cox, violin
Program

G. Fr. Handel: 
Arias

J. Ph. Rameau: 
Orchestral music

BAROQUE CONCERT
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kouvola City Hall
Rich and colourful music of the Baroque: splendid arias by George Frideric Handel in which the soloist is Tuuli Lindberg, one of Finland’s finest Baroque singers, accompanied by a large orchestra. The orchestral music of Rameau is an enchanting mix of colour and invention.
Tuuli Lindeberg
Artists
Leader
Raymond Cox, violin
Soloist
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Program

G. Fr. Händel: 
Arias

J. Ph. Rameau: 
Orchestral music

OPERA NIGHT: excerpts from ‘FIDELIO’
  • Kotka Concert Hall
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Beethoven’s magnificent, powerful opera Fidelio in an almost full concert version.
Olari Elts Emma Bell Anna-Kristiina Kaappola Juhan Tralla Timo Riihonen Tommi Hakala
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

L. van Beethoven:             
Overture and arias from the opera ‘Fidelio’                 

“IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS”
  • Kotka Church
  • Kouvola Central Church
Our pre-Christmas concerts present a programme of some of the best-loved Christmas music. This time we combine works by two composers, Mozart and Mendelssohn, both Wunderkinder in their day. The Kymi Sinfonietta also brings together singers from the north and south of the region: Sonus from Kouvola and the Kotka-Canto Chamber Choir from Kotka. The two choirs will perform in both concerts. Collaboration with locals is also important for the concerts’ conductor, Olari Elts. The soloists will be baritone Riku Pelo and soprano Marika Hölttä.
Marika Hölttä Riku Pelo
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

Felix Mendelssohn:   
Symphony No. 6
Ave Maris Stella for soprano and orchestra
Vom Himmel Hoch, cantata based on the hymn

W. A. Mozart: 
Symphony No. 31
Laudate Dominum for soprano, choir and orchestra
Regina Coeli for soprano, choir and orchestra

The Snowman
  • Kotkan konserttitalo
  • Kotkan konserttitalo
  • Kuusankoskitalo
A live performance by the Kymi Sinfonietta of the evergreen classic The Snowman, a touching Christmas story of friendship. This award-winning British animation film premiered in 1982 captures hearts both young and old.
© Snowman Enterprises Ltd
Artists
Conductor
Kimmo Tullila
Soloist:
Ukko Väisänen
Program
JOINT CONCERT WITH THE JYVÄSKYLÄ SINFONIA
  • Kuusankoski Hall
  • Kotka Concert Hall
The Kymi Sinfonietta continues the collaboration with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia that got off to such a good start last year. This time the concert will feature all-time favourites by Lindberg, Sibelius and Rachmaninoff. The soloist in the Sibelius Violin Concerto is the young, highly-talented Rebecca Roozeman, winner of this spring’s Juhani Heinonen Violin Competition. Together the two orchestras conducted by Ville Matvejeff will be able to do full justice to the richly romantic second symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Rebecca Rebecca
Artists
Conductor
Ville Matvejeff
Program

Magnus Lindberg:     
Chorale

Jean Sibelius:     
Violin Concerto

Sergei Rachmaninoff:    
Symphony No. 2

FINALS CONCERTS OF THE IV INTERNATIONAL UUNO KLAMI COMPOSITION COMPETITION
  • Kuusankoski Hall
  • Kotka Concert Hall (+Results and prize-giving ceremony)
The tension rises in the finals concerts of one of the world’s most popular composition competitions, the International Uuno Klami now being held for the fourth time. Audiences at these concerts will have a chance to hear no fewer than five world premiere performances. The five works were chosen from the 283 entries in the competition, and four of them feature a top instrumentalist as soloist. The presenter is the charismatic Jussi-Pekka Rantanen familiar to Finnish TV viewers. The winners will be announced and the prizes awarded after the concert in Kotka.
JUSSI-PEKKA RANTANEN OLARI ELTS OLEG LARIONOV HEIGO ROSIN RISTO-MATTI MARIN PERTTI JALAVA ANDREA PORTERA ROBERTO SANSUINI TOMI RÄISÄNEN VALENTINA COLADONATO culpo
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

Christopher Culpo (France)
Mundus Imaginalis*

Pertti Jalava (Finland)
Viola Concerto*

Andrea Portera (Italy)
Klecksophonic Lieder*

Tomi Räisänen (Finland)
Portal, Marimba Concerto*

Roberto Sansuini (Italy)
Four Tales for Small Orchestra*

Jury:
Kalevi Aho (Chairman), Magnus Lindberg,
Erkki-Sven Tüür and Olari Elts

*world premiere performance

VIOLA IN MY LIFE I “Voilà the viola!”
  • Kotka Church
  • Kouvola Town Hall
Olari Elts’s other new concert series is “Viola in my Life” focusing on top viola players from round the world. It would, says Elts, be a pity not to use such a resource. Some solo violists also lead their concerts. First on the list is the celebrated Brit Lawrence Power, in a programme that cleverly links early repertoire with works by British composers. The other soloist is velvety-voiced Irish tenor Robin Tritschler.
Lawrence Power
Artists
Leader and violist:
Lawrence Power
Soloist:
Robin Tritschler, tenor
Program

John Dowland:
If my complaints for tenor and ensemble

Benjamin Britten:              
Lachrymae 

Arcangelo Corelli:             
Movement from Concerto Grosso No. 6

Michael Tippett:                
Corelli Fantasia

H. Purcell – L. Stokowski:
Dido’s Lament: “When I am Laid in Earth” from the opera Dido and Aeneas

Benjamin Britten:
Nocturne for tenor and instrumental ensemble

Esa-Pekka Salonen:           
Pentatonic Etude for viola

PAAVALI JUMPPANEN AND KEYBOARD
  • Kotka Church
  • Kuusankoski Hall
Paavali Jumppanen, a great hit with audiences on his previous appearances with the Kymi Sinfonietta, returns to lead and act as soloist in two great masterpieces in the piano repertoire. Though Bach, Mozart and Beethoven never met, Mozart and Beethoven were influenced by the music of Bach, and Beethoven by Mozart. Each nevertheless wrote in an original style all his own, as we will hear in the two concertos.
Paavali Jumppanen
Artists
Pianist and leader
Paavali Jumppanen
Program

J. S. Bach:
Movements from Die Kunst Der Fuge

W. A. Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488

L. van Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

BRASIL! ”Brasilialaiset ystäväni”
  • Kyminsuu Culture Centre, Karhula
  • Kuusankoski Hall
  • Kyminsuu Culture Centre, Karhula
Once again we turn the spotlight on some of our first-class players as our principal trumpet Visa Haarala acts the soloist, leader and arranger in a sizzling programme with friends from Brazil and the Kymi Sinfonietta. The majority of the pieces are by pianist-composer Gabriel Geszti, but there will also be others by Brazilian composer-musicians Hermeto Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Moacir Santos and others.
visa Geszti
Artists
Leader and arrangements
Visa Haarala
Program
BEGUILING ITALIAN BAROQUE Capriccio stravagante!
  • Kotka Church
  • Kuusankoski Church
Our leader, Raymond Cox, has devised a pleasing menu of colourful, virtuosic music of the Italian Baroque ranging from Carlo Farina’s furious Capriccio stravagante to arias from Antonio Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in villa. Starring as our soloist is countertenor Teppo Lampela, master of a type of voice seldom heard in Finland.
Raymond Cox
Artists
Leader
Raymond Cox, viulu
Program

Antonio Vivaldi:   
Arias from the opera Ottone in villa (1713)

Giovanni Alberto Ristori:
Movements from the cantata Dai crini omai scuotete (The Day of the Coronation of Her Majesty Anna Empress of Russia, 1736)

Carlo Farina:
Capriccio stravagante (1627)

Marco Uccellini:
Movements from Sonate, arie e correnti (1642)

Antonio Bertali:
Ciaccona (1662)

Francesco Geminiani:
Concerto grosso No. 12 “La folia” (after the well-known Violin Sonata La folia by Arcangelo Corelli, 1729)

RED HOUSE concert series: “The magic of the silent movie – The New Babylon”
  • Karhuvuori Sports Hall (Steveco Arena), Kotka
  • Pato Areena, Kuusankoski
The Kymi Sinfonietta’s series of popular silent movies continues in the second Red House concert offering audiences their first chance to see the Russian silent classic in magnificent surroundings: The New Babylon directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg (1929) to the music composed for it by Dmitri Shostakovich performed live by the Kymi Sinfonietta. The vivid, colourful music is a good example of its composer’s musical humour.
Olari babylon
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Program

Dmitri Shostakovich:         
The New Babylon

RED HOUSE concert series: I “City Life”
  • Karhuvuori Sports Hall (Steveco Arena), Kotka
  • Pato Areena, Kuusankoski
A concert you simply cannot afford to miss. Hypnotic rhythms are the key to the first concert in this new Red House concert series devised by Olari Elts. For it we have chosen a magnificent selection of readily accessible contemporary classics. Leading the cavalcade is Magnus Lindberg’s Red House, followed by the fantastic violin concerto by American composer John Adams. The soloist is top violinist Chloë Hanslip, who has recorded the concerto with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The works by American Steve Reich also have some catchy rhythms. Adding colour to the rhythmic beat in City Life is sound material collected in the busy New York streets.
Olari Elts, kapellimestari Chloe Hanslip
Artists
Conductor
Olari Elts
Solist
Chloë Hanslip, violin
Program

Magnus Lindberg: Red House

John Adams: Violin Concerto

Steve Reich: Runner, City Life

AVAJAISKONSERTTI "Yleisön toivekonsertti"
  • Merikeskus Vellamo
  • Merikeskus Vellamo
  • Kouvolan kaupungintalo
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Atso Almila, kapellimestari Minna-Leena Lahti, sopraano
Artists
Kapellimestari
Atso Almila
Program

Classical and lighter music by popular request, including:

Jules Massenet:  Meditation for violin and orchestra

Lasse Mårtenson: Myrskyluodon Maija

Edvard Grieg: Solveig’s Song

Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz No. 2

Franz Schubert: Ave Maria

Jean Sibelius: Valse triste

Franz Lehár: The Vilja Song

Astor Piazzolla:  Libertango

Monty Norman: James Bond signature tune

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Jouko Koivukoski
Artists
Program

Magnus Lindberg: Red House
Steve Reich: Runner
Steve Reich: City Life