Single tickets for spring available now
The theme of the upcoming concert season of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra is Finland and Finnish music. The majority of the season’s guest conductors are Finnish, almost thirty Finnish composers are featured in the programme, and five of the works will be premieres.
The concert season also celebrates an anniversary: the Orchestra of the Helsinki Philharmonic Society, today known as the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, performed its first concert in October 1882. The jubilee concert in May reproduces the first concert 140 years ago.
Susanna Mälkki will conclude her term as Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in style after so many impressive concerts, award-winning recordings and visits to renowned concert halls. In early May, the orchestra will head to the USA to perform Sibelius and Saariaho at Carnegie Hall in New York. At the HPO’s concerts at the Helsinki Music Centre in May-June, Mälkki will conduct Mahler’s Third Symphony. During her term as Chief Conductor, the themes of the orchestra’s programme have been France, German-speaking culture, Anglo-America, Italy, Asia and the Slavic countries of continental Europe.
“This season, our eyes and ears will turn especially to our homeland, Finland. Although the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra is the orchestra of Sibelius, Finnish music is so much more. This year's programme offers one selection, and I hope that the coming years will continue to add to the diversity of Finnish music through both brand new and older music. As I end my term as chief conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra after the 2022–23 season, I feel great joy and pride in the orchestra's current rejuvenation and its important place in Finnish music life,” says Mälkki.
Tickets: Single tickets go on sale 9 December