The program for the 2022 summer festival has had a change. The recital of pianist Tarmo Järvilehto on 29.7 in The Chapel of the Northern Lights is now themed around Humanity and Heroism. The change to the program was made because of the ongoing geopolitical crisis and a desire to…
The Sounds of Luosto will be organized amongst the Lappish landscape of Luosto, Pyhä, and Sodankylä. Concert venues include the unique natural amphitheaters of Ukko-Luosto and Aittakuru, as well as Sodankylä’s old wooden church. A wide selection of orchestral and chamber music from the baroque to the modern day will…
The second portion of the Sounds of Luosto photography competition, kaamos and early winter, has ended, and the top three have been selected! This round of the competition received 50 submissions, from which Rovaniemi based photographer Irma Varrio has selected her three favorite winter photos. “Early winter and kaamos inspired…
The Sounds of Luosto festival will give its audience an opportunity to hear artists with long international careers as well as interesting new talents from Finland, Italy, France, Sweden and USA. This year the festival will be visited by two orchestras, the Polytech Orchestra and the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra as…
Violist Max Nyman graduated from the Sibelius Academy in the Spring of 2020. His most important teachers have included violists Atte Kileläinen, William Coleman and Steven Dann, as well as violinist Jari Valo and chamber pianist Timo Koskinen. Having participated in the apprenticeship program of the Helsinki Philharmonic in 2016,…
This year the festival will be visited by three large ensembles, as well a menagerie of Finnish and international chamber artists. 16 performances will be held on Luosto, Pyhätunturi, and in Sodankylä, with works by 40 different composers. The festival is a multi-faceted array of chamber, solo, and orchestral music,…
Tiinaliisa Multamäki, known by her artist’s name Louhistiina, is a Sodankylä based orator, director, and fine-arts entrepreneur. In addition to her performing work, she has written monologues, plays, and short movies, as well as directed plays, oratory performances, and short movies. Multamäki aims to use her art to convey knowledge…
Described as a refined conductor with a genuine passion for music, James S. Kahane has been led to conduct first-rate orchestras such as the Finnish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Strings, and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, and presently holds the position of Principal Conductor…
Kadri Joamets, the Tartu-born conductor of the Seitakuoro choir, began her musical life as a pianist and accordion player. She began her choral conducting studies in 1988 as a student of the Heino Elleri Conservatory in Tartu. There she studied with well known Estonian choral conductor and pedagogue Alo Ritsing.…
Teuvo Taimioja is multifaceted guitarist, who wants to explore musical surfaces and possibilities in different styles. Taimioja has played concerts in events such as WhatEverWorks-festival, Oulu’s Guitar Festival, Joensuun kitarakevät, KitaraNova-festival and UNM-festival, the last of which the Finnish National Broadcasting Company recorded. He is founder and one of the…
