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In the final round the participants play the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and one of five pre-selected concertos by the following composers: Unsuk Chin, Oliver Knussen, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho.

In the final round the participants play the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and one of five pre-selected concertos by the following composers: Unsuk Chin, Oliver Knussen, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho.

In the final round the participants play the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and one of five pre-selected concertos by the following composers: Unsuk Chin, Oliver Knussen, Magnus Lindberg and Kaija Saariaho.

Gustav Mahler originally gave a title to each movement of his grand Third Symphony but removed them from the score before the work was published. However, six famous titles have stubbornly remained on the side of the symphony from one generation, programme and concert to the next.

Step into a musical time machine! The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes you to a gala concert presenting exactly the same programme as the orchestra’s very first concert 140 years ago in October 1882.

Toivo Kuula and the HPO made a lasting impression on the Helsinki audiences in February 1911. “The young composer has with these two concerts fully captivated the audiences of the capital region. He is its favorite child now.

Carl Nielsen compared composing to rolling a stone. “I roll a stone up a hill; use the energy I have in me to get the stone up to a high point. And there the stone lies still.

Let the sound waves tingle, entangle and tease. Jimmy López Bellido’s piece is a journey into the mind of a synesthetician, where sound evokes a sense of colour and taste is reminiscent of a geometric shape.

Ann-Elise Hannikainen performed as soloist for her own Piano Concerto at a concert by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at the Helsinki Festival in 1976.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra premiered the violin concerto of Jean Sibelius, conducted by the composer himself, in 1904, and since then the piece has been played by the orchestra more than 200 times.

Moscow, Berlin, and especially Paris. Years of studying in the world’s metropolises matured Väinö Raitio into a master of colour music.

The Helsinki Music Centre Choir blows out ten birthday candles with works whose composers have been enchanted by poetry and painting.

Allow us to introduce: the environmental robot Baltic! He has met children from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany and Denmark and sought answers to their tricky environmental questions about how we can all help protect the Baltic Sea.

Two violin sounds – a sforzato and a pizzicato – provided the basic material for the tape used in Kaija Saariaho's first orchestral work. The French premiere of Verblendungen in 1984 marked the starting point for Saariaho’s international breakthrough.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s very own Maria Krykov performs as the soloist for Missy Mazzoli's double bass concerto in a concert by this season's artist-in-residence Pekka Kuusisto.

Last autumn, the Los Angeles Times lauded violinist Leila Josefowicz’s performance of John Adams’ Violin Concerto: “A daring, probing, thinking, dancing, spectacularly virtuosic soloist… she played each turn of phrase, each gesture, as though it were a ne

“Orchestra, do not disturb the audience!” Richard Wagner hid the orchestra in the pit in his Bayreuth Festival Theatre and even went a step further by putting the cover on.

Camilla Nylund, one of our most successful opera singers, is also one of the brightest stars among international sopranos.

Two concertos for the price of one! Pianist Kirill Gerstein has compiled a symmetrical concert programme in which Webern’s short tonal aphorisms cleanse the musical taste buds in preparation for the flow of Brahms’s concertos.

In this evening’s concert hosted by Pekka Kuusisto, art music does not turn its gaze away but instead holds onto our hand firmly while compassionately exploring our home planet, its beauty and its wounds.

A favourite soloist playing a favourite concerto! Mackenzie Melemed, winner of the 2017 International Maj Lind Piano Competition, enchants audiences with his focused presence.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s solo flutist Niamh McKenna and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's solo harpist Emmanuel Ceysson will shine as soloists for the premiere of Kalevi Aho's new double concerto.

The programme, created by Tabea Zimmermann, starts off with her viola surrounded by its own tribe in Benjamin Dale’s lovely sextet for six violas from 1911.  

“When I play together with someone, I want to feel how their soul opens up. I also open my own soul. Then we can face each other as human beings.

What does the first symphony ever composed in the Russian Empire sound like? Ukrainian composer Maxim Berezovsky studied under the Italian Masters at both the St. Petersburg Court and the Bologna Academy of Music, from which he graduated with honours a few months after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Ingeborg von Bronsart’s opera Jery und Bätely was a big hit in Germany in the late 19th century. Its overture provides an impressive and spirited start to the orchestra’s Finnish Music Day concert. 

The 110th anniversary of the birth of composer Erik Bergman is being celebrated with choral music, solo trumpet and the premiere of a Finnish piece. 

With over a hundred recordings and six Grammy Awards to his name, maestro Leonard Slatkin makes his debut in front of the HPO. Pianist Angela Hewitt brings to the concert hall treasures from the world of Mozart’s concertos ennobled by experience.

“I have always been interested in the boundary between the subconscious and the conscious. Maybe that's why I'm fascinated by extreme contrasts.” Daníel Bjarnason’s Processions is a handsome, big-boned piano concerto that proudly follows in the steps of Rachmaninov’s and Prokofiev’s concertos.

Conducted by Susanna Mälkki, the wide array of string instruments, the broad scope of wind instruments and the lavish range of percussion instruments spread across the stage of the large concert hall at the Helsinki Music Centre to conjure up Kaija Saaria

Timo Hietala's Baby Symphony is a musical adventure into the wonderland played by the orchestra. It is a touchingly fun composition for infants and toddlers, as well as for adults who are young at heart.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki and two musicians from the East Coast of the USA who are not afraid to go over, under, through and right past musical barriers perform a brand-new piece by one of the hottest contemporary composers in th

Conductor Emilia Hoving makes her debut in front of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in the oldest and most popular of our concert traditions, the May Day Matinees.

In the middle of March 2020, concert halls around the world closed their doors due to restrictions imposed to counter the coronavirus pandemic.

“Siri Brander's Elegie for string orchestra was newsworthy and – it has to be said at once – good news indeed.” The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra’s popular concert in April 1894 featured a set of symphonic masterpieces, yet the newspaper Uusi Suometar highlighted the opening number of the conce

Viktoria Mullova invites audiences in with true gems of concert repertoire; Arvo Pärt’s three pieces, which exude quiet, simple beauty. Jean Sibelius's diary entries about his Fifth Symphony reveal the ecstasy of composing: “I have a lovely theme.

The spotlight shines brightly on the clarinet when classical music and jazz wink at each other.

Conductor André de Ridder is the founder of the s t a r g a z e musical collective and a curious and innovative concert curator. The artistic director of the Musica nova Helsinki-festival brings works that require electricity and video screens.

Born in Tehran, composer Behzad Ranjbaran lives in New York and teaches music theory at the Juilliard School of Music. He is inspired by the rich layers of Persian music, literature and history. His Songs of Eternity are embellished with vocal ornaments and spirals. 

“Oh turn, turn your course, In the valley spring is coming to bloom!” Robert Schumann begins his symphony with the trumpets blowing away the clouds to make room for spring, borrowing the rythm of the opening stanza of the german poet Adolph Böttger’s poem.

The phenomenal trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger brings us Betsy Jolas’ new work. The evening’s programme also features Steve Reich’s latest orchestral work, which Susanna Mälkki premiered in Los Angeles. 

Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen opens an old French book of fairy tales and conjures up characters woven into music by Maurice Ravel. So welcome Sleeping Beauty, Little Tom Thumb, the Empress of the Pagodas, and the Beauty and the Beast!

October is wrapped up with the sounds of big symphonic composers.

” When I woke up I heard a sound, it grew ever louder, I could no longer imagine myself in a dream, music was sounding, and what music! reads the diary entry of Richard Wagner’s wife Cosima, on Christmas Day 1870, after the premiere of her symphonic birthday present.

This concert, led by Pekka Kuusisto, sets off with New York composer Missy Mazzoli’s Vespers.

The autumn season is opened with memories from the turn of the century, when the orchestra premiered several works by Sibelius, such as the Wood Nymph and Cassazione.

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