New Turku 2011 Programme tickets soon available

In 2011, Turku will host a unique year full of culture as never seen before. The ticket availability for Capital of Culture programme events will be supplemented on 15 September with a magnificent selection of musical performances from jazz to opera.

The performance venue itself holds a special importance for the musical experience for the productions now becoming available. The audience can live and experience the operas within the Turku Castle courtyard and the Easter Oratorio booms wondrously in the Turku Cathedral. Chamber music can be experienced in various locations, including small village churches in the archipelago, the traditional Brinkhall Manor and St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel that represents modern wooden architecture in its fullest. Jazz rhythms will resonate from the sturdy walls of Logomo, the former engineering workshop.

Ticket sales are off to a good start

The Turku 2011 programme will provide novel experiences and extraordinary combinations also with the events that have been available through Lippupiste ticket offices since the summer: the heavy metal 1827 Infernal Musical, the Middle-Aged Hair musical featuring Turku residents, the 30th anniversary performance Dancing Tower by the AB Dance Company, universal soundtrack Energo, the dance performance Borrowed Light by Tero Saarinen Company and the international circus performance Cirque Dracula.

The Capital of Culture year ticket sales are off to a good start. The most popular attraction at the moment is the 1827 Infernal Musical that draws inspiration from the Great Fire of Turku.

Several of the 2011 events are once in a lifetime performances; in order to secure tickets, the reservations should be made early.

Turku 2011 productions available through Lippupiste starting from 15 September 2010:

Opera d’Alvilda in Abo
Dates: Fri 5 August | Sun 7 August | Tue 9 August | Thu 11 August | Fri 12 August | Sat 13 August | Tue 16 August | Wed 17 August 2010
Venue: Turku Castle courtyard

Opera Henrik and The Hammer of Witches
Dates: Sat 27 August | Sun 28 August | Sat 3 September | Sun 4 September 2011
Venue: Turku Castle courtyard

Lights Concert Series / European Jazz Orchestra
Date: Sat 28 April 2011
Venue: Sigyn Hall, Turku

Lights Concert Series / The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (New York)
Date: Sat 9 July 2011
Venue: Logomo, Turku

Lights Concert Series / Utö Chamber Music
Date: Tue 21 June 2011
Venues: Utö Church and Havshotel

Flame Jazz Clubs / incl. Ricky-Tick Big Band (Fin)
Date: Sat 26 February 2011
Venue: Logomo, Turku

Easter Joy Concerts / Mendelssohn’s version of J. S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Date: Wed 9 March 2011
Venue: Logomo, Turku

Easter Joy Concerts / C. H. Graun’s Easter Oratorio
Date: Sun 24 April 2011
Venue: Turku Cathedral

Bridge of Tones Symphony Concerts

Concerts and dates:

Wed 5 January 2011: Prelude to Year of Celebration, G. Mahler Symphony n:o 2 “Resurrection”, Janina Baechler and Helena Juntunen (sopranos), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam

Thu 20 and Fri 21 January 2011: M. Heiniö, Moon Concerto – L. v. Beethoven, Symphony n:o 3 ”Eroica”, Monica Groop (mezzo), Heini Kärkkäinen (piano), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petri Sakari

Thu 6 and Fri 7 October 2011: J. Linkola, Piano Concerto (ordered work, premiere) – I. Stravinsky, Petrushka, Henri Sigfridsson (piano), Turku Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk

Venue: Turku Concert Hall

Bridge of Tones Chamber Music Concerts
Dates and venues: Sat 15 January St. Catherine’s Church, Turku | Sat 26 February Brinkhall Manor, Turku | Sat 26 March Turku Castle | Sat 21 May Rymättylä Church | Sat 17 September Nauvo Church | Sat 29 October Villa Solin, Turku | Sat 5 November Turku Castle | Sat 3 December St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, Turku

Tickets from 15 September: