Ticket sales start 5 December 2024 at lippu.fi
Friday 24th January
Opening of the art exhibition
18.00 Kalliosali, Folk Art Centre
Opening of the exhibition of Mira Roivainen, Artist of the Year
Evening with Kaustinen College of Music
19.00 Kaustinen Hall, Folk Art Centre
Traditional concert with a fresh programme!
Ticket 20 €
Saturday 25th January
Children play for children
14.00 Pelimannitalo
Local young musicians and teachers perform. Ilmiö Ensemble will present wind instruments, and Jenny Villanen teaches a short body maintenance routine for musicians! Hot chocolate and a sledding hill on the slope of the Pelimannitalo.
Free admission
Concert Intro
18.00 Café Fiuli, Folk Art Centre
Tiila talks with the artists of the evening.
Within the Space of Time
19.00 Kaustinen Hall, Folk Art Centre
Ilmiö Ensemble
Jenny Villanen, flute and bass flute
Takuya Takashima, oboe
Nora Niskanen, clarinet
Mikko-Pekka Svala, bassoon
Ilkka Puputti, French horn
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Niilo Ruotsala, piano (Young Artist of the Year)
Arto Anttila, sound engineer
From the children’s chamber to the open spaces, on the wings of dazzling music.
Programme
Claude Debussy: Parts of the series Children’s Corner L.113 (1908) (arranged for wind quintet by John Gibson)
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
The snow is dancing
La fille aux cheveaux de lin (Girl with flaxen hair, from Piano Preludes 1 (arr. Joachim Linckelmann)
Golliwogg’s cake-walk
György Ligeti: Etude for piano No. 8: Fém. Vivace risoluto, con vigore
György Ligeti: Six bagatelles for wind quintet
Debussy: Preludes
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
La puerta del Vino: Mouvement de Habanera
Brouillards: Modéré
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest: Animé et tumultueux
Minna Leinonen, Touko Hujanen & Jussi Suonikko: The Land We Leave (for flute, tape and video) (2023)
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Claudio Monteverdi: Canzonette a tre voci (arr. for wind quintet)
Canzonetta d’amore
Raggi dov’è il mio bene?
Corde a la morte
Su su su che’l giorno
Minna Leinonen: Within the Space of Time (parts) (2024)
Moon that doesn’t exist
Already, already now?
Light of the World
Peteris Vasks: Music for Fleeting Birds (No. 1, 1977)
Tickets: 27/25 €
Sunday 26th January
Mass
10.00 Kaustinen church
Ilmiö Ensemble
Children’s concert
15.00 Central Ostrobothnia Conservatoire, Kokkola
Wind quintet Ilmiö Ensemble
Jenny Villanen, flute
Takuya Takashima, oboe
Nora Niskanen, clarinet
Mikko-Pekka Svala, bassoon
Ilkka Puputti, French hon
Ilmiö Ensemble’s concert for the whole family will take you on a trip with Totoro, among other things.
Duration approx. 45 minutes.
The concert is organized in cooperation with the Central Ostrobothnia Conservatory.
Tickets: 10 €, children 3-12 years 5 €, children under 3 years free of charge
Maria Vespers
18.00 Kaustinen Church
Earthly Angels & Floridante
Kajsa Dahlbäck, soprano & music director
Maria Valdmaa, soprano
Katariina Heikkilä, mezzo-soprano
Teppo Lampela, countertenor
continuo: Tea Polso, Saale Fischer,
Eero Palviainen, Villu Vihermäe
Early music ensembles Earthly Angels and Floridante bring a masterpiece of musician-abbedissement from Milan in the 1650s to Kaustinen in the 2020s. Maria Vespers is a collection of Cozzolani’s solo works and eight-voice motets.
Programme
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Tickets 27/25 €
Monday 27th January
Concert for all ages
10.30 Kaustinen Library
Veli Kujala, accordion
Tiila Kangas, viola
Age recommendation 3->
Duration approx. 30 min.
Free admission
School Concert (open to the public)
12.00 Friiti Hall, Järvelä school
Veli Kujala, accordion
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Tiila Kangas, presenter
Everyone is welcome to the school concert!
Free admission
Tuesday 28th January
House Concert at Rantalehto
18.00 Pilvi and Esko Järvelä’s home
Niilo Ruotsala, piano
Young Artist of the Year, pianist Niilo Ruotsala, will play a selection of key piano repertoire for a home concert audience. Note! Capacity 20 people – buy your tickets early!
Programme
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 884 DWK II
Beethoven: Sonata in E major op. 109
Chopin: Sonata in B minor op. 58
Ticket 15 €
Open rehearsals of the Aapintupa fiddlers & craft café
19.30 Folk Art Centre lobby
Come and experience living tradition at its best; live rehearsal over a cup of coffee or tea!
Free admission
Wednesday 29th January
School Concert (open to the public)
9.30 Puumala school
Veli Kujala, accordion
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Tiila Kangas, presenter
Everyone is welcome to the school concert!
Free admission
Village Concert
18.00 Salonkylä Nuorisoseura
Tiila Kangas, viola & presenter
Kreeta-Maria Kentala, violin
Veli Kujala, accordion
Anna Pulakka, cello
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Maria Pulakka, violin
Valo Quartet
Timo-Veikko Valve, cello
In Salonkylä, compositions by Minna Leinonen and Viljami Niittykoski will be performed among other things. The Salonkylä fiddlers will end the evening with folk music.
Ticket 15 €
Thursday 30th January
Concert Intro
18.00 Café Fiuli, Folk Art Centre
Tiila talks with the Valo Quartet and composer Minna Leinonen.
Soisin
19.00 Kaustinen Hall, Folk Art Centre
Valo Quartet
Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Tim Crawford, violin
Lilli Maijala, viola
Amy Norrington, cello
The International Valo Quartet’s programme includes P.H. Nordgren’s 10th String Quartet and a new composition by Minna Leinonen, continuing a series of commissioned works. Purcell’s Fantasies and Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet are also among the best of string quartets.
Programme
Henry Purcell:
Fantazia in F major
Fantazia in C major
Fantazia in D minor
Fantazia in G major
Pehr Henrik Nordgren: String Quartet No. 10, op. 142
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Minna Leinonen: Soisin, premiere, co-commissioned by Kaustinen Chamber Music Week and Katrina Kammarmusik
Franz Schubert: String Quartet in A minor D 804, op.29 (”Rosamunde”)
Tickets 27/25 €
Yle Radio 1 will broadcast the concert
The concert is supported by Svenska Kulturfonden
Friday 31st January
Concert Intro
18.00 Café Fiuli, Folk Art Centre
Tiila talks with Timo-Veikko Valve
Meraki*
19.00 Kaustinen Hall, Folk Art Centre
Timo-Veikko Valve, cellist-conductor
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
Timo-Veikko ”Tipi” Valve, principal cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and an old Kaustinen visitor, makes his debut as the leader of the OCO and plays Schumann’s romantic cello concerto as their soloist. Coming from the other side of the globe, we will hear works by three composers of our time. And of course Mozart!
Programme
Melody Eötvös: Meraki (2020)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet KV 421 in D minor (arranged for string orchestra by Timo-Veikko Valve)
Peter Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 8, parts 1 and 5 (arranged for string orchestra by Timo-Veikko Valve)
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Olivia Bettina Davies: Crystalline (2017)
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129 (arranged for string orchestra by Orlando Jopling)
*(=mm. to do one’s job with all one’s heart and soul)
The concert is dedicated to the memory of cellist Lauri Pulakka
Tickets 27/25 €
Yle Radio 1 will broadcast the concert
Folk Music Jam Session
21.30 Restaurant Pelimanni
Let the local music play! The event is arranged in co-operation with Kaustinen Pelimanni Association
Free admission, cloakroom fee
Saturday 1st February
Chamber Music Marathon
18.00 Kaustinen Hall, Folk Art Centre
Compiled by Hilkka Rauhala and Tiila Kangas
Hosted by Hilkka Rauhala
A marathon concert by festival artists and local musicians culminates the week. As a new feature in the program we will hear favorite music and stories behind the wishes by invited guests.
Tickets 27/25 €Ticket sales start 5 December 2024 at lippu.fi