music | Turku 2011

Welcome to Turku! – Aura Street Market’s spring trip to Helsinki

An urban design and cultural event, Aura Street Market, travels to Helsinki to participate in the World Design Capital Year 2012 with top young designers from Turku on May 19th.

Welcome to Turku! – Aura Street Market’s spring trip to Helsinki presents new design and various cultural programme in wide co-operation.

Aura Street Market organizes in Pavilion with it’s field trip friends a design market event (as participants for instance KLO Design, Polkka Jam, Punainen Norsu, Roots Cultural Movement and Saana ja Olli).

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The Turku Arts Academy cello ensemble

Young Turku-based cellists at big youth concert in Japan

Japanese audiences will have the chance to hear the musical talents of young cellists from Turku at the beginning of March. The cello students from Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences will be the only performers representing Finland at the International Youth Concert in Tokyo, a large event showcasing talented young artists from Europe and Japan.

The International Youth Concert will be held at the 800-seat Kioi Hall in Tokyo on Thursday 1 March. In addition to the Turku-based cello quartet, other performers at the concert will include a Japanese girls' choir, a Hungarian-Japanese pianist, and a soprano from Maribor, Slovenia. Maribor is one of two European Capitals of Culture in 2012.

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The International Day of Persons with Disabilities to be celebrated with culture

On Saturday 3 December, the Capital of Culture Turku will celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities together with associations for the disabled. The purpose of this celebration to be organised at the Turku Volunteer Fire Department building and the TaiKa Festival that will follow it is to draw attention to the rights of the disabled and celebrate culture in its different forms.

During the Capital of Culture year, Turku has focused on the positive impact that culture has on well-being and the importance of having of access to culture. These are also themes of this invitation event being held on the Day of Persons with Disabilities.

The Chairman of the Turku City Council Seppo Lehtinen and the Chairman of the Threshold Association Riku Virtanen will give speeches at the event. Greetings from the Turku 2011 Foundation will be presented by CEO Cay Sevón.

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Adam' Lament, Hagia Irene

Arvo Pärt’s “Adam’s Lament” will have its Finnish premiere Dec. 7

Arvo Pärt’s impressive composition “Adam’s Lament” will be heard for the first time in Finland in Turku. The premiere will take place in the St. Michael’s Church on 7 December, with Arvo Pärt present as the guest of honour.

The piece is for choir and string orchestra. In Turku, it will be performed by the Musicians of the King’s Road with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir led by the renowned Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste.

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Signmark

The TaiKa festival brought song and dance to the Turku VPK house on December 3rd

In honour of the Disabled's Day Kynnys ry was hosting a festival for the whole family that provided art for everyone. The celebration was organised at the (Turku VPK house).

The TaiKa festival had a wide variety of popular performers, for example the world renown sign language rapper Signmark. Also the punk group Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, that succesfully toured festival stages last summer, was performing. Along with KAAOS Company, one of the best known Finnish integrated dance groups.

Local talent wasn't forgotten either: The Toivola Tanssii ja Soi- performance had been made in honour of Toivola's 10-year anniversary. Idän Ellit, a group from Turku, was performing Oriental dances.

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Music lights the way to Christmas

Culture is endless but the 2011 calendar year is drawing to a close, and with it the Turku 2011 events and activities. However, we still have some treats in store for music lovers, for example.

During the past year, culture has been a significant draw for tourism in Turku. The increase in interest is strongly evident throughout Southwest Finland: over 40% of Turku residents and over 20% of other residents of Southwest Finland report increases in culture consumption. By the end of November, a total of 1.800.000 visitors have participated in Capital of Culture events. Of these numbers, Logomo Exhibition Centre visits amount to 220.700 people.

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Eerik XIV

Eerik XIV had world Premiere

On Tuesday 22 November, the new Logomo Hall opened with the premiere of the Eerik XIV opera. The opera was commissioned by the City of Turku from composer Mikko Heiniö and librettist Juha Siltanen in honour of the Capital of Culture year. The last performance will be on Tuesday November 29th.

Eerik XIV is composed by Mikko Heiniö and the libretto is written by Juha Siltanen. The lead, as young king Eric, is performed by mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant and Eric’s spouse Karin Månsdotter is portrayed by Helena Juntunen. The opera is directed by Erik Söderblom and conducted by prominent opera maestro Leif Segerstam.

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Music lights the way to Christmas

Culture is endless but the 2011 calendar year is drawing to a close, and with it the Turku 2011 events and activities. However, we still have some treats in store for music lovers, for example.

The national survey conducted by market research company Taloustutkimus in September indicates that the Capital of Culture year has sparked the public’s interest in culture more than ever before. During the past year, culture has been a significant draw for tourism in Turku.

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Eerik XIV

Eerik XIV live broadcast online on Saturday

The opera Eerik XIV will be broadcast live online on Saturday November 26th at 3-6.25 pm. The premiere on Tuesday got a splendid welcome. There are still tickets for all the performances, but to enable that also people who don´t have the opportunity to come to Turku get to see the unique performance, the opera will also be broadcasted on the Internet.

Eerik XIV brings together film and opera on one stage. The audience follows simultaneously both the making of the opera as well as large projections on different levels. Eerik XIV is a story about King Eric, his beloved Karina Månsdotter, about power, imprisonment, love and madness.

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Animalis

Animalis examines the relationship between animals and men

Animalis is a fascinating composition of fictional and historical elements, with episodes set in Europe and the New World between 1546 and 1735 – the world before Charles Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory.

Animalis is a collasion of images from a world filled with uncertainty, new discoveries and new ways of thinking. Both the world and humankind are facing a transformation. This change is a mysterious phenomenon also for the scientists at the dawn of the New World.

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