Fri 12.08. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
LAHTI INTERNATIONAL ORGAN FESTIVAL CONCERT LAHTI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & JIMI JÄRVINEN
Ville Matvejeff, conductor
Jimi Järvinen, organ
Olivier Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées
Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from the opera ‘The Love for Three Oranges’
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Festival in Baghdad from ‘Scheherazade’
Alexander Scriabin: Rêverie, Op. 24
Joseph Jongen: Symphonie Concertante, Op. 81
Wed 31.08. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
GUEST CONCERT – Estonian Festival Orchestra
Estonian Festival Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor
Lemminkäinen
Symphony No. 2
Thu 01.09. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
FLOORA AND FAUNA
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Dick Idman, recitation
Alma Pöysti, recitation
Somnium Ensemble Choir
Pan and Echo
Pelléas and Mélisande, concert suite
The Wood-Nymph, melodrama
Snöfrid – Improvisation for narrator, mixed choir and orchestra
6 pm Pre-concert Talk / Carpenters’ Hall
Aino’s Realm: Music journalist Eva Tigerstedt interviews Julia Donner, curator of Ainola
Fri 02.09. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
PREMIÈRE 1911
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
In memoriam
Canzonetta
The Dryad
Night Ride and Sunrise
Symphony No. 4
6 pm Pre-concert Talk / Carpenters’ Hall
Timo Virtanen: Concerts Reconstructed
Sat 03.09. at 17.00 Sibelius Hall
PREMIÈRE 1927
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
The Tempest, Prelude
Tapiola
Rakastava
Symphony No. 7
4 pm Pre-concert Talk / Carpenters’ Hall
Music journalist Eva Tigerstedt interviews Satu Jalas, daughter of Sibelius’s daughter Margareta
Thu 15.09. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
AVAJAISET: Made in America
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto ‘Procession’ (Nordic premiere)
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Thu 22.09. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
AILI IKONEN – I SING
Antti Rissanen
Aili Ikonen, vocals
Tuomas J. Turunen, piano
Mikko Pellinen, double bass
Mikko Arlin, drums
Thu 29.09. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
QUEEN OF THE PIANO
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Andrew Norman: Play: Level 1
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (1919)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2
Thu 13.10. at 18.00 Sibelius Hall
FAIRY-TALE CONCERT
Kristian Sallinen, conductor
Grégoire Pont, animator
Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Thu 20.10. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
MORE THAN A THOUSAND WORDS
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor
Finalist from the Sibelius Violin Competition
Willem Jeths: Ritratto, orchestral suite
Violin Concerto to be announced later
Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Thu 10.11. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
COMETS
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
Senja Rummukainen, cello
Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Cello Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Thu 17.11. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
CLASSICAL INGREDIENTS
Risto Joost, conductor
Bogdan Dekhtiaruk, trumpet
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony in E flat major, Wq. 179
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Thu 24.11. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
FOKUS: SAULI ZINOVJEV
Daníel Bjarnason, conductor
Juho Pohjonen, piano
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Music
Sauli Zinovjev: Piano Concerto
Sauli Zinovjev: Un Grande Sospiro
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Thu 01.12. at 19.00 Sibelius Hall
DALIA’S MIXTAPE No. 2 featuring Leila Josefowicz
Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Karl Hartmann: Concerto funèbre for violin and string orchestra
Thomas Adès: Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’
Helen Grime: Violin Concerto
Tue 06.12. at 15.00 Sibelius Hall
INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT
Anna-Maria Helsing, conductor
Erkki Rautio, cello
Sauli Zinovjev: new work, first performance
Helvi Leiviskä: Symphony No. 2
Matti Rautio: Divertimento No. 1 for cello and orchestra
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
Fredrik Pacius: Finnish National Anthem
Symphonically together: Polttimo
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