Riihimäen Kesäkonsertit

Riihimäki Summer Concert Series 2012

“Music in Life”

 

Saturday 19 May

 

4.00pm Finnish Glass Museum, €24 / €20

EIGHT SEASONS

The Chamber Orchestra of Lapland

John Storgårds, conductor and violin soloist

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni)
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires


 

Tuesday 5 June

 

5.00pm Granitin Aukio square

OPENING FANFARE

Lahti Brass Quintet

 

 

7.30pm Finnish Glass Museum, €24 / €20

THE MAGIC OF STRINGS

 

The New Helsinki Quartet

Petri Aarnio, violin

Taija Kilpiö, violin

Ilari Angervo, viola

Joel Laakso, cello

Mozart: String Quartet, KV 458
Webern Fünf Sätze
Beethoven: String Quartet, op. 132

 

 

Wednesday 6 June

 

12.00 noon Granitin Aukio square

SAMPLER from the concerts for assisted living facilities

Tytti Vänskä, violin
Simo Helkala, piano

 

 

7.30pm Finnish Glass Museum, €24 / €20

 

MUSIC FROM EUROPE

 

Tanja Tetzlaff, cello

Gunilla Süssmann, piano

 

Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba
Sibelius: Malinconia
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano

 

Thursday 7 June

 

9.00am and 10.15am Matinsali Hall, over-16s €5 on the door

CHILDREN’S CONCERTS

Milla Pohjola and the VIMK orchestra

 

12.00 noon Granitin Aukio square

SAMPLER

Milla Pohjola and the VIMK orchestra

 

7.30pm Finnish Glass Museum, €24 / €20

GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS

The Cyprus Trio

Wolfgang Schroeder, violin

Peter Gospodinov, cello

Naoko Kariya, piano

 

Hummel, Ioannides, Dvorak

 

 

Friday 8 June

 

12.00 noon Granitin Aukio square

SAMPLER

StrongBows

 

18.00pm Finnish Glass Museum, €24 / €20

FINNISH EVENING

Hannu Jurmu, tenor

Ilmari Räikkönen, piano

Kilpinen, Sibelius

 

8.00pm Kino Sampo, €18

StrongBows

rock classics arranged for strings

Saturday 9 June

12.00 noon Granitin Aukio square

SAMPLER

Under their own power

 

6.00pm Kappelikirkko church, €18

ROSES DO NOT SPEAK

Timo Korhonen, guitar

Uli Kontu-Korhonen, soprano, medieval portative organ and dulcimer

Sibelius, Bach, Cardoso, Villa-Lobos, Hosokawa

 

 

Sunday 10 June

6.00pm Finnish Glass Museum, €29 / €25 (incl. interval refreshments)

 

GALA CONCERT

Riihimäen Seudun Osuuspankki bank’s 90th anniversary

Lohja City Orchestra

Esa Heikkilä, conductor

Antti Tikkanen and Linda Hedlund, violin

Sauli Kulmala, viola

Tuomas Lehto, cello

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto



 03.05.2012