Thursday 4th of July 7.00 PM
Viitasaari Areena Tickets 29/21 €
This year’s Opening Concert presents the international IEMA Ensemble (International Ensemble Modern Academy) consisting of young top musicians. Orango by the Italian-Swiss composer Oscar Bianchi explores the relationship between performers and audience, and in this performance the participating audience consists of students of the national youth composition course held in Viitasaari. Conducted by Raimonda Skabeikaitė, the trilogy Pendants by the Swedish composer Jesper Nordin will also be heard in the concert.
The concert is a part of the Ulysses Network project supported by the Creative Europe programme.
Raimonda Skabeikaitė, conductor
Moritz Fischer & Timo Kurkikangas, electronics
IEMA Ensemble:
Hwajune Kim, flute
Megumi Nakajima, oboe
Pablo Piñeiro Mundin, clarinets
Olivia Palmer-Baker, bassoons
Robyn Blair, horn
Jinhyoung Kim, trumpet
Noah Perkins, trombone
Grzegorz Chwalinski, percussions
SeongYeon Kong, percussions *
Shan-Chi Hsu, piano
Isaac Bifet, violin
Veronika Palleeva, violin **
Elijah Spies, viola
Uschik Choi, violoncello
Emmett Jackson, double bass
Jesper Nordin: Pendants (2009)
Pendant I
Pendant II
Pendant III
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Oscar Bianchi: Orango (2018)
The concert has an intermission.
