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The Sibelius Festival program has been announced

The international Sibelius Festival of Lahti Symphony Orchestra will take place on September 7-10, 2023 at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti, and its theme will take the listener on the journeys of the Finnish national composer.

The Estonian Festival Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi will visit the Lahti Sibelius Festival on 31 August 2022

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s 23rd Sibelius Festival will be held at the Sibelius Hall in Lahti from 31 August to 4 September 2022, with Dalia Stasevska, chief conductor of the orchestra, as its artistic director. The festival will be opened by an international guest appearance of the highest calibre, when the Estonian Festival Orchestra, consisting of European musicians, will perform on Wednesday 31 August 2022, conducted by the renowned Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi. This visit is made possible thanks to the support from the Jane and Aatos Erko Foundation.

Sinfonia Lahti and Scenes from the Kalevala

The present album, from the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk, brings together Kalevala-related works spanning the period between 1897 and 1943.

Dalia Stasevska debuts with New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Dalia Stasevska makes her debut with the New York Philharmonic in four concerts on October 20, 21, 22 and 23 at the Alice Tully Hall with a programme featuring three of America’s leading composers — Missy Mazzoli, Anthony Davis and John Adams.

Open vacancies

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra invites applications for the position of Principal French Horn, work starts at January 31st 2022 and Principal Trumpet and Solo Viola, these work starts at January 3rd, 2022.

Dalia Stasevska’s first season 2021/2022 as the orchestra’s chief conductor

Diversity will be highlighted in the concert season 2021/22 both by the music to be performed and by the guest artists. As a novelty, ‘Focus concerts’ will be presented – curated by the American legend John Adams, who will conduct his own concert in October, and Jukka Tiensuu in November. The autumn season begins with the Sibelius Festival, which focuses strongly on the folk music connections of Sibelius’s music.

New SL ClassicLive App

With the new SL ClassicLive mobile application (in Finnish) you can enjoy the Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s concerts whenever and wherever. In addition to direct concert streamings there are numerous other concerts available.

The Lahti Symphony Orchestra invites you to join its team for the Virtual Finlandia -hiihto

At the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in the spring of 2020, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra made a video combining individual recordings by more than sixty musicians of Sibelius’s Finlandia. In the spring of 2021, the orchestra will continue with the Finlandia theme by taking part on a corporate basis in the Virtual Finlandia -hiihto “ski marathon”. The orchestra would also like to invite all friends of music and sport to join the orchestra’s team (with the name ‘Sinfonia Lahti’).

Approx. 800,000 views for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s online content during the Coronavirus

In addition, its two concert broadcasts on YLE (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) have reached a total of some 100,000 listeners. Following the interruption of the orchestra’s normal concert activities by the coronavirus pandemic, online concerts and other content have become a key part of the orchestra’s alternative offering.

A joint summer greeting for all students and teachers in Finland created by the Finnish symphony orchestras.

The Finnish symphony orchestras created a joint summer greeting for all students and teachers in Finland – conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen as musical advisor.

A massive orchestra, consisting of musicians from member orchestras of the Association of Finnish Symphony Orchestras, have made a virtual recording of the finale of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no 7, which will be released as a mosaic video on Friday May 29th at 9 am, to mark the ending of the orchestras spring seasons.