Other program:
Where Does Music Live?
Open workshop about the future of contemporary music.
City Hall – Free entrance
TUESDAY JULY 1st at 4.00–6.00 pm (in English)
THURSDAY JULY 3RD at 3.30–6.00 pm (in Finnish)
Event information:
Does music still live in the concert hall – or has it already moved on? Does it reside in a composer’s mind, or in shared creation between artists, spaces, and technologies? Maybe music now lives in field recordings, in video calls, in the attention span of a scrolling thumb. Or maybe it lives in silence, in waiting, in refusal.
Contemporary music today is more than sound – it’s space, body, politics, memory, and friction. We may need to rethink our “fixed ideas” about music’s home: from the lone genius in control, to multi-signature collaborations; from Western paradigms to global hybridities; from static formats to immersive, time-bending experiences.
This workshop invites participants from all backgrounds to reflect together:
Where do you find music most alive today – and where would you want it to live next?
Welcome to discuss, brainstorm and build a vision of where music lives now and where we would like it to live in the future.
In the workshop, we will discuss themes together and work in small groups. Organised in collaboration with the City of Viitasaari, as part of the project “Music of our Time”. The workshop will be led by Vilja Ruokolainen.
The event will be held on Tuesday, July 1st in English and on Thursday, July 3rd in Finnish. You can find the description in Finnish here.
Concerts
TUESDAY JULY 1st
7.00 PM Opening Concert: Butterfly music
Viitasaari Areena 32/24 €
Ensemble Yarn/Wire:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Sae Hashimoto, percussion
Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen
Jennifer Torrence
Inga Margrete Aas
Simon Løffler
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Lisa Streich: Orchestra of Black Butterflies (2024)
Simon Løffler: Animalia Cycle (2019)
The concert has an intermission.
WEDNESDAY JULY 2nd
6.00 PM Time sketches
Viitasaari Areena 26/20 €
Ensemble Yarn/Wire:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Sae Hashimoto, pecussion
Rémi Le Tallandier, computer Music design
Serge Lacourt , sound Engineer
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Jaime Belmonte: Cinq Regards sur 2024 (2024, Finnish premiere)
Alex Mincek: Images of Duration (2018)
The concert will be broadcasted by Yle.
9.00 PM Plans for Future Operas
Theatre 22/16 €
Juliet Fraser, soprano
Mark Knoop, piano
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Øyvind Torvund: Plans for Future Operas (2022)
THURSDAY JULY 3rd
7.00 PM Supernova 1945
Viitasaari Areena 26/20 €
Ensemble Saxtronauts:
Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone
Nanna Ikonen, saxophone
Nanako Lammi, saxophone
Sikri Lehko, saxophone
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Meriheini Luoto: Talven uneen vaipuen (2024)
Kätköt
Talviunia
Kevät kuohuu ja kohisee
Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Oil Today Water Tomorrow (2024, world premiere)
Nuño Fernández Ezquerra: Plerion (2019)
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Olli Moilanen: Crisalide (2025, world premiere)
Outi Tarkiainen: There’s more light in this room when you’re here (2018)
Mioko Yokoyama: Tetra-Alloy (2024)
The concert has an intermission.
The concert will be broadcasted by Yle.
FRIDAY JULY 4th
6.00 PM Kinds of closeness
Theater 26/20 €
Ensemble Kompopolex:
Aleksandra Gołaj, percussion, performance
Rafał Łuc, accordion, performance
Jacek Sotomski, electronics, performance
Łukasz Myszyński, electronics
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Matthew Shlomowitz: Weird Audio Guide (2011/2020)
Simon Løffler: b (2012)
Rafał Ryterski: Breathe (2021)*
Jacek Sotomski: System Shock (2025)*
Marti Hirsti-Kvam: Memory Box #2 (2023)*
Kelley Sheehan: inefficient sky (2024)*
*Finnish premiere
8.00 PM Leçons de ténèbres – Lessons of Darkness
Viitasaari Areena 26/20 €
Ensemble Saxtronauts:
Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone, electronics *
Nanna Ikonen, saxophone, electronics **
Nanako Lammi, saxophone, electronics
Sikri Lehko, saxophone, electronics
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Lauri Supponen: Ave Maris Stella (2020)
I Field Research
II Data processing
Juhani Nuorvala: Kreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019) **
I Valoisa valssi
II Tumma valssi
III Intohimo
Perotinus: Viderunt omnes (arr. Nanna Ikonen)
Hildegard Bingeniläinen: O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)
Juhani Nuorvala: Concertino (2004)*
Juhani Nuorvala: Kreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019)**
IV Élegié pour Julie
Hildegard Bingeniläinen: Karitas habundat in omnia (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)
Lauri Supponen: Ave Maris StellaIII Diffusion of Results
SATURDAY JULY 5th
3.00 PM Olde School Course Concert 1.
Parish Hall – Free entrance
Concert details will be announced later.
5.00 PM Laboratory of Not-knowing Course Concert
Free entrance
Concert details will be announced later.
7.30 PM About Listening
Theatre 26/20 €
Performers:
Matthew Shlomowitz, reader
Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone
Mark Knoop, piano, synthesizer
Claudia Molitor, voice, piano
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Matthew Shlomowitz: Lecture about Listening to Music (2017)
Claudia Molitor: Now everything is different (2024)
SUNDAY JULY 6th
14.00 Olde Skool Course Concert 2.
Parish Hall – Free entrance
Concert details will be announced later.
19.00 Call to Action!
Viitasaari Areena 22/16 €
Mirka Viitala, piano
Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975)
VENUES
Viitasaari Areena, Urheilutie 9
Church, Kirkkotie 9
Theatre, Koulukuja 8
Parish Hall, Pappilantie 6
City hall, Keskitie 10
Festival office during the festival: Digikeskus/Lennätin, Keskitie 4
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