Sounds of Luosto 2026 – performers

The main concert on the Ukko-Luosto stage features the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Aku Sorensen and young rising star baritone Gabriel Kivivuori Sereno. The orchestra maintains an over 110-year-old tradition as the largest orchestra from Eastern Finland.

In a unique concert in the magnificent Aittakuru, the renowned Finnish saxophone quartet Saxtronauts will create a space where everything is in dialogue: modernity and the Renaissance, space and performance, musicians and audience, people and nature. A wonderful adventure awaits.

The various chamber ensembles feature interesting top-level musicians of the younger generation, who have made significant careers in Finland and internationally.

By clicking the names in the list below you will get information on the musicians performing in Sounds of Luosto! Festival 2026.

ORCHESTRA, QUARTET, AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

>>> Kuopio Symphony Orchestra

>>> Saxtronauts

>>> Aku Sorensen, artistic director

CHAMBER MUSICIANS

>>> Aida Hadzajlic, viola 

>>> Tuulia Hero, violin 

>>> Tarmo Järvilehto, piano

>>> Gabriel Kivivuori Sereno, baritone

>>> Hilda Kunnola, harp

>>> Vuokko Lahtinen, viola

>>> Martin Malmgren, piano

>>> Joonas Pekonen, violin

>>> Elisar Riddelin, violin

>>> Livia Schweizer, flute

>>> Aku Sorensen, conductor

>>> Saara Särkimäki, cello

>>> Annika Valkeajoki, cello