Audience outreach
UMO goes where people are.
Audience outreach work at UMO is a music education and audience education effort whose purpose is to reach a variety of population groups to make UMO activities more accessible. Live music is conducive to wellbeing and health. UMO engages in audience outreach activities with children and adolescents, with senior citizens and with special needs groups. UMO gives concerts at schools and daycare centres, visits the elderly in service housing and in institutions, and organises other pedagogical and training events. More information on current topics in audience outreach work is available on this website.
Culture companions
UMO Helsinki is involved in the Culture Companions service organised by HelsinkiMissio.
Do you feel like going to a UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra concert but going alone gets you down or seems difficult? That is what Culture Companions are for! A Companion will book the tickets, help you to find your way to the location and accompany you to the concert.
In the company of a Culture Companion, you pay a maximum of 5 euros for your ticket. You can access the free events for free. The company and guidance of a Culture Companion friend is free.
HelsinkiMissio operates Cultural Companion activities in cooperation with the City of Helsinki and cultural actors.
How to book a Companion:
Choose an event from UMO’s concerts that you would like to attend with Culture Companion friend. Please note that we cannot offer tickets for every concert.
Call to HelsinkiMission 09 23120375 (callback service) and tell us the event you have chosen.
The friend will book the ticket and call you, you will agree where and when to meet.
More information (in Finnish only) >>
Welcome to our concert!
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
Deeper into the show
Concerts with a background.
Deeper into the Show (Fin. ”Enemmän irti esityksestä”) will be organised usually 45 minutes before those UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra concerts that are taking place at the cultural centres of the City of Helsinki (Vuotalo, Kanneltalo, Malmitalo). Discussion will be in Finnish or in English, depending on the case.
The events see the conductor, soloist or one of the orchestra’s members discuss the theme and background of the concert and answer the audience’s questions. The aim of the events is to offer the listeners a more in-depth concert experience.
Despite the fact that the afternoon concert programmes and schedules are designed specifically to suit senior citizens, all other ages are naturally as welcome to attend.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
For businesses
Businesses are invited to include UMO Helsinki in their corporate social responsibility activities.
Businesses are invited to include UMO Helsinki in their corporate social responsibility activities. UMO Helsinki audience outreach activities involve children, adolescents, the elderly and special needs groups. A business may contribute to UMO Helsinki audience outreach work by becoming a regular sponsor or an event sponsor. UMO Helsinki is an innovative performing arts community with bold new initiatives and collaborations with sometimes unexpected partners.
What UMO Helsinki can offer businesses:
- Participation in activities aimed at specific target groups
- Customised short-term and long-term partnerships
- Opportunities for supporting music education in Finland
- Extensive experience in the field of music
- A reliable expert organisation
Examples of UMO Helsinki audience outreach activities:
- Concerts at schools and daycare centres
- Pedagogical and education projects, e.g. band mentoring
- Visits to service housing and care institutions
- Activities for senior citizens
- Charity benefits
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
Institutional visits
Live music to the people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to enjoy it.
The purpose of visiting institutions is to bring live music to people who would otherwise not be able to enjoy it. Institutional visits take UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra to old people’s homes, hospitals and service housing for the elderly.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
The Music Factory
At UMO Helsinki’s Music Factory new music will be forged.
The Music Factory is a music workshop project produced by UMO Helsinki for eight-graders studying at arts-oriented secondary schools in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Musician Aija Puurtinen, percussionist and expert of Brazilian music Sami Kontola, and saxophonist-conductor and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra´s artistic partner in audience outreach, Ville Vannemaa, are in charge of the pedagogical offerings, teaching the students in composition, lyric-writing and rhyhmics. The project ends with a public concert where the students perform their own songs together with UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
Prevention of social exclusion scheme
We are looking for new partners.
One form of audience outreach for UMO Helsinki is the prevention of social exclusion. In collaboration with our partners we will offer concert tickets to special groups, such as people with chronic diseases or limited means.
Our partners include the Finnish Association for Mental Health, the Central Association for Mental Health, the City of Helsinki Immigration Unit and the VAMOS Career Services and Alcohol Rehab Clinic of the Helsinki Deaconess Institute.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
School visits
UMO Helsinki organises concerts and workshops for schoolchildren and students.
UMO Helsinki organises concerts and workshops for schoolchildren and students, from daycare up to upper secondary school. Focusing on music education aspects, the concerts are designed to introduce children and adolescents to the concept of a big band and the music that has been written for that ensemble for almost a century now. School visits also introduce young audience members to concert attendance practices and customs while supporting music teachers at schools in teaching the history of jazz, which is part of the curriculum.
A typical school visit week begins in the classroom, with the band introducing the pupils to the history of UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and how the orchestra operates. Also the sections and instruments of a big band are introduced as well as the improvisation. At the end of the school visit, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra gives a concert at full strength for the entire school, performing traditional big band works that the pupils are unlikely to hear anywhere else.
UMO Helsinki is available for school visits in the Greater Helsinki area by agreement, and elsewhere in the country too when on tour. Visits are customised to the needs of the hosts and are free of charge, although the hosts are welcome to make a voluntary donation towards the orchestra’s expenses.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi
UMO Helsinki comic
Learn about UMO Helsinki, jazz and big band music!
The UMO Helsinki Comic (only in Finnish and Swedish) is a fun introduction to the world of UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, jazz and big band music and an entertaining way to engage more with your live music experience.
Read the short comic illustrated by Christer Nuutinen here (in Finnish), here (in Swedish) and print out the concert doodle sheet here.
A printed version of the comic can be purchased at selected UMO Helsinki concerts.
Further information and inquiries:
Asta Salomaa
producer
+358 50 331 8845
asta@umohelsinki.fi