The main event of the four day festival will be a concert held on the unique outdoor stage built directly into the slopes of Ukko-Luosto. The festival has also been granted use of the 330 year-old wood church of Sodankylä for use in concerts. The Sounds of Luosto! festival will be held 29.7-1.8.2021 on the fells of Luosto and Pyhä, as well as in downtown Sodankylä.
The program features a variety of chamber, orchestral, and solo performances.
Tickets purchased 2020 are accepted for corresponding events summer 2021
Purchase your festival pass here
In advance 164 €
At the door 175 €
The festival pass does not includeopening concert
THURSDAY 29.7.
17.00 – 18.30 Sunrise – Opening concert of the Sounds of Luosto
Santa’s Hotel Aurora, Luosto
In advance 52 €
At the door 55 €
Cocktails
Livia Schweizer, flute
Helmi Malmgren, clarinet
Joonas Pekonen, violin
Elisar Riddelin, violin
Aku Sorensen, violin
Vuokko Lahtinen, viola
Saara Kurki, viola
Laura Martin, cello
Saara Särkimäki, cello
Like every new day, the Sounds of Luosto music festival will begin with a sunrise. The opening concert begins with the first movement of Haydn’s Sunrise quartet, before being followed by another sun-related piece: Aftab Darvishi’s “Daughters of Sol”. The concert concludes with a new work by young composer-violinist Elisar Riddelin, commissioned for the opening of this new festival.
Join us in raising a glass to a beautiful beginning!
Haydn String Quartet Op. 76 no. 4 “Sunrise”, mvt. 1
Darvishi Daughters of Sol
• This piece was commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a project of the Kronos Performing Arts Association.
• The score and parts are available for free online
Riddelin Voara (world premiere)
20.00-22.00 Beethoven 250 (+1)!
Revontulikappeli, Pyhätunturi
Tarmo Järvilehto, piano
In advance 32/11 €
At the door 35/13 €
2020 was the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and like many festivals around the world, Luosto soi! 2020 had planned a program to honor this titan of classical music. The year of our inaugural festival has had a chance to change, but Beethoven famously used nature as a source of inspiration whenever writing music got too hard, and thus his music has a home in our nature-themed festival. This program features one of his great masterpieces for piano, the Diabelli Variations, performed by Finnish pianist Tarmo Järvilehto. The first half features the second piano sonata of Kalevi Aho, his “Hommage a Beethoven”, to be introduced by the composer himself.
Aho Piano Sonata No. 2 “Hommage a Beethoven”
Beethoven Diabelli Variations
FRIDAY 30.7.
13.00 – 14.00 In the Garden
Historic Church of Sodankylä
In advance 22,50/11 €
At the door 25/13 €
Livia Schweizer, flute
Laura Martin, cello
Helmi Malmgren, clarinet
In the old church of Sodankylä, we take an afternoon to visit a beautiful garden. Sometimes meditative, sometimes full of energy, the garden is home to many wonderful creatures: nightingales, butterflies, woodpeckers and more. It is also a place for moments of self-reflection and meditation. The concert dances quickly from new to old, like a bumblebee flitting from flower to flower.
Oliveros Tuning Meditation
Saariaho Laconisme de l’aile
Couperin Rossignol en Amour
Saariaho Sept Papillons
Hildegard O nobilissima viriditas
Vasks Landscape with Birds
Leinonen Harmaapäätikka
19.00 – 21.00 The End of Times
Lapland Hotels Luostotunturi, Luosto
In advance 32/11 €
At the door 35/13 €
Musicians of the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra
Livia Schweizer, flute
Minna Ristamäki, accordion
Helmi Malmgren, clarinet
Joonas Pekonen, violin
Elisar Riddelin, violin
Aku Sorensen, violin
Saara Kurki, viola
Laura Martin, cello
Saara Särkimäki, cello
Martin Malmgren, piano
The world is in crisis. Forests burn, glaciers melt, waters rise. To top it all off, already nearly a year and a half ago the coronavirus arrived and changed life in an instant. Sometimes one cannot help but feel that the end times have come. In this concert, we look at the last time the whole world was aflame, through the eyes of those that lived it, and those that looked back on it. The program consists of music from the second world war, both pieces written in the concentration camps, and pieces that reacted later to the horror of it all. The concert teaches us lessons from the past. It reminds us that the apocalypse can be survived. It commands us to remember. It tells us: we must make it through.
Nono Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz
Flothuis Aubade
Shostakovich String Quartet no. 3
Trojan The Ruined Cathedral
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
22.00 – 24.00 Light Jazz at Twilight
Restaurant Punakettu, Luosto
Sodankylä Big Band
In advance 17,50 €
At the door 20 €
One drink included
The world may be in crisis, but it’s not all doom and gloom. After a heavy concert, the evening lightens up to the beats of a big band.
SATURDAY 31.7.
13.00 – 15.00 The Sounds of Luosto
Ukko-Luosto Outdoor Stage
Lapland Chamber Orchestra
Tomas Djupsjöbacka, conductor
Anders Paulsson, soprano saxophone
In advance 37/11 €
At the door 40/13 €
Under 16 years free
The festival reaches its peak on the outdoor stage of Ukko-Luosto, featuring two Finnish composers who have drawn inspiration from nature over the course of their career. Kalevi Aho has been a part of music at Luosto for over 15 years, and it would not make sense to bring a festival back to Luosto without a program that heavily features his music. The program culminates in Sibelius’s fifth symphony, ending in its brilliant swan theme. The fifth symphony is a picture of Finland’s landscape, with its forests, lakes, fells, and birds. A landscape seen at its best on Ukko-Luosto.
Aho Solo X
Aho Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra
Sibelius Scene with Cranes
Sibelius Symphony no. 5 arr. Iain Farrington
23.00 – 24.00 Transfigured Night
Revontulikappeli, Pyhätunturi
In advance 22,50/11 €
At thedoor 25/13 €
Vuokko Lahtinen, viola
Martin Malmgren, piano
Joonas Pekonen, violin
Elisar Riddelin, violin
Saara Kurki, viola
Saara Särkimäki, cello
Laura Martin, cello
There is little that is as beautiful or as mysterious as the night. Nothing has inspired humanity as much as looking up at the stars and wondering what lies beyond. This late-night concert seeks to capture that wonder. First, we marvel at the beauty of constellations drawn into the night sky, otherworldly and beautiful. Then, we hear the story of the transfigured night, a starry night transformed by a tale of love.
Connesson Constellations
Schönberg Verklärte Nacht
SUNDAY 1.8.
11.30 – 12.30 In the Eye of the Storm
Historic Church of Sodankylä
In advance 22,50/11 €
At the door 25/13 €
Minna Ristamäki, accordion
There is something incredible about the eye of the storm. A moment of peace within the chaos, a meditative moment before the rain and wind return. On this Sunday morning, accordion player Minna Ristamäki offers that small moment of peace within the storm of Luosto Soi with a solo program from 300 years of music, set to soothe the mind and prepare you for the coming storm.
Lohse Menuetto
Bach Prelude and Fugue in g# minor, BWV 863
Lorentzen Tears
Scarlatti Sonata K 87
Rameau Pièces de clavecin: Suite in e minor
• I. Allemande
• III. Gigue en rondeau
• V. Les Rappel des Oiseaux
Lohse Passing II
Bach Prelude and Fugue in c minor, BWV 549
13.30 – 15.15 Sivunittinni
Sodankylä County Hall
In advance 32/11 €
At the door 35/13 €
Helmi Malmgren, clarinet
Martin Malmgren, piano
Joonas Pekonen, violin
Elisar Riddelin, violin
Aku Sorensen, violin
Saara Kurki, viola
Vuokko Lahtinen, viola
Laura Martin, cello
Saara Särkimäki, cello
The word Sivunittinni means “The Future Ones” and comes from a poem by Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq. She has said that she wrote the piece of the same name with the hope to instill a bit of the land into future generations of musicians, to remind them from where they came. The rest of the program also reflects on what has once been, pasts heroic or otherwise. Widmann’s “Once Upon a Time” looks at fairytales not as “happily ever after” but as reflections of mankind’s underlying primal fears and desires. Dvorak’s Dumka Quintet reflects on a heroic past. We end the festival with a chance to remember who we once were, to reflect on it, and to move forward.
Widmann Once Upon a Time
Tanya Tagaq Sivunittinni
• This piece was commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a project of the Kronos Performing Arts Association.
• The score and parts are available for free online.
Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 “Dumka”
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