SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2020
15.10.-18.10.2020 Sibelius Hall, Lahti

Festival weekend for friends of Sibelius’s music: All seven symphonies and the Violin Concerto

Thursday 15.10. 7 pm Sibelius Hall
SYMPHONY CONCERT
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Sergey Khachatryan, violin

Symphony No. 3 Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 1

6 pm Pre-concert talk / Andrew Barnett – CANCELLED
(in English and free of charge)

The First Symphony tells of a time before Sibelius had freed himself from role models and influences, whilst the Third shows his new-found musical ideal in its unvarnished beauty. Between this two symphonies he wrote his Violin Concerto, performed here by Sergey Khachatryan, who won the
Sibelius Violin Competition in 2000 at the age of 15.

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to make changes to the programmes and timing of concerts if the restrictions imposed by the Finnish government continue and if required by the coronavirus infection situation in the autumn of 2020.