UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra continues its series of club nights with a renewed concept in Black Box at the Helsinki Music Centre.
In the autumn season 2026 there will be three UMO clubs, with a special focus on music makers. The invited guests are the composers Selma Savolainen, Christian Elsässer and Ville Vannemaa, all of whom have a strong profile as musicians. The club evenings are deep dives into the mindscapes of the guests, introducing them in full depth. Each guest brings a work-driven concert programme as well as a soloists well suited to the event. Once again, the clubs promise to be both surprising and intimate, showing different aspects of both UMO and the guests while jolting expectations.
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Sat 17.10.2026 UMO Club: Focus Christian Elsässer (DE) feat. Lage Lund (NO) >>
Sat 7.11.2026 UMO Club: Focus Selma Savolainen >>
– The UMO Club has brought lovers of jazz and big band music together at the Helsinki Music Centre. We have been particularly delighted that there have also been large numbers of young jazz listeners in the audience. Having its own club has been important for UMO at different stages of the orchestra’s history, and I’m very happy that intimate club concerts at a permanent location once again are a regular part of our season, says Henriika Steidel-Luoto, Managing Director of the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra.
The clubs will start at 6.00 pm and the duration of the concerts will be about 75 minutes, without interval. The discussions that were part of the anniversary season will not continue. There is no age limit for the concerts. The venue is configured as a club, meaning that most of the venue is standing room. In addition, there is a very limited number of unnumbered seats in the hall.
The club evenings are jointly produced by UMO and the Helsinki Music Centre.
In addition to concert-specific tickets, you can also buy a serial ticket covering the three club evenings of the autumn season.
Single tickets
General ticket 44 €
Pensioners 36 €
Students, Children, Unemployed, Military Personnel 20 €
The ticket price includes the cloakroom fee.
Serial ticket for three clubs
General ticket 117 € (ordinary 132 €)
Pensioners 96 € (ordinary 108 €)
Students, Children, Unemployed, Military Personnel 51 € (ordinary 60 €)
The ticket price includes the cloakroom fee for all three concerts.
Tickets are sold in the Music Centre online store and telephone service, as well as at the ticket sales customer service point during opening hours. Telephone service (tel. 0600 411 101, call price €0.99/min + local network charge/mobile network charge) is open on weekdays from 9 am to 3 pm. The ticket office at the Helsinki Music Centre is open on weekdays from 1 pm to 6 pm and for one hour before the concert. The online store is open 24 hours a day at www.musiikkitalo.fi.
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra: great achievements and mastery in jazz since 1975! Throughout the decades, UMO has been at the forefront of Finnish jazz. This multi-award-winning ensemble – recipient of the Yrjö and Emma awards and a Grammy nominee – has shared the stage with international jazz legends as well as the brightest stars of the Finnish music scene. With a distinguished discography of over 60 albums, Helsinki’s own “jazz city orchestra” performs across Finland, reaching 35,000 listeners through more than 100 concerts annually. At the heart of UMO is a commitment to new music. The orchestra’s versatile repertoire fearlessly pushes boundaries, from jazz and soulful grooves to classical fusion. www.umohelsinki.fi
Helsinki Music Centre is a concert and event venue in the centre of Helsinki that’s open to all. Every year, we host more than 1,000 events from classical, jazz and folk music concerts to corporate gatherings and private celebrations. More than half of all our public events are offered free of cost, as we want culture to be accessible to all. The Music Centre building also remains open to visitors outside of performance hours. Why not pop in for a cup of coffee, to check out our brilliant array of art exhibitions and our fantastic resident artworks or even just to take a look – the architecture itself is worth a visit. The resident organisations at the Music Centre are the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the University of the Arts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy. www.musiikkitalo.fi
Photo: Minna Hatinen