The next Sounds of Luosto festival will take place 31.7.-3.8.2025 on Luosto, Pyhä and in Sodankylä. The theme of the year will be “light”. The programme explores light as a constant of life and physics from as many perspectives as possible. There will be suns and moons, light and shadows,…
The festival, which was held for the fourth time from August 1-4, once again succeeded in gathering classical music lovers to Luosto, Pyhätunturi and Sodankylä. This year’s theme was Echoes of History. The programme included familiar classics and newer music. This year, the aim was to highlight, among other things,…
The festival will be held again in summer 2025. The programme will be published in March. Here are some snapshots from the 2024 festival. We hope they convey the atmosphere of the Luosto and Sodankylä landscapes, unique concert venues and great music performances.
The Sounds of Luosto festival will be organized in the Lappish landscape on Luosto, Pyhä, and in Sodankylä. Concerts will be held in places like the natural amphitheater of Ukko-Luosto and the banks of the river Kitinen, as well as Sodankylä’s historic old church. The theme of 2024 is Echoes…
Jyväskylä Sinfonia Jyväskylä Sinfonia is a classical music gem in Central Finland, whose heart beats in Jyväskylä and plays throughout the region. The orchestra’s nearly 150 events reach more than 30 000 listeners every year, from symphony concerts to genre-bending special productions and music events for all ages. Since autumn…
The Program for the 2024 Sounds of Luosto festival, taking place in the beginning of August, has been published. The main concert of the festival on Ukko-Luosto will be performed by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia under the direction of conductor Aku Sorensen. The four-day festival will take place 1.-4.8 on Luosto,…
Joonas Pekonen is a versatile young violinist currently residing in London. He enjoys an active freelance career in the UK, and plays regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Joonas was invited to work as the 1st concertmaster…
Photo Studio Kupu/Sade Puusa Aida Hadzajlic is a Helsinki-born Finnish-Croatian violist, who began her studies as a 7-year-old at the East Helsinki Music School. In the year 2018, she began her studies at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts as a student of Helge Valtonen. Since the…
Tuulia Hero is the violinist for the London-based Paddington Trio, an active concert violinist and improviser, and a teacher of violin and chamber music at the Royal Northern College of Music and Guildhall Young Artists King’s Cross in London. With the Paddington Trio, Tuulia has received first prizes in several…
Harpist Hilda Kunnola was raised in Kuusisto before moving to Helsinki, where she is currently completing her Master’s degree at the Sibelius Academy under the leadership of Stefania Saglietti Couto. Hilda has completed her previous studies at the Sibelius Academy with Päivi Severeide, Emmanuel Ceysson, and studied in the Freiburg…
