A joint concert by three orchestras takes the listener to the extremes of emotion. The concert’s soloist is the Venla Award–winning Maria Ylipää.
What does a world sound like where love, loneliness, hysteria, and ecstasy collide through the power of staged music? A joint concert by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra takes the listener to emotional extremes – from quiet melancholy to musical exuberance.
Shining as the soloist in this concert is Venla Award–winning actor and musical theatre star Maria Ylipää. Her exceptional charisma and wide-ranging expressive power guide the audience through at least thirteen distinct moods and emotional landscapes – from the 17th century to the present day – in collaboration with three uniquely different ensembles.
In the concert, works by 17th-century English composers Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell enter into dialogue with a cult classic of 20th-century avant-garde music, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. The story of the moon-mad Pierrot explores love, madness, and death – themes which hysteria can grow along many different paths.
The concert is part of the joint AUF series by the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO), produced in collaboration with the Helsinki Music Centre. Representing different musical traditions, these leading ensembles invite audiences to explore a rich variety of musical flavours.
Photo: Anna-Maria Viksten
Avanti! Chamber Orchestra is known in Finland as a pioneer of contemporary music, celebrated for its bold and open-minded programming, adaptability, and its way of bringing music to unexpected places for new audiences. avantimusic.fi
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra – The Greatest Feats since 1975. Celebrating its 50th anniversary season, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra performs a wide range of music from jazz and soul to classical, combining the old and the new in surprising ways. umohelsinki.fi
The Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) is renowned for its insightful programming, high artistic standards, creative courage, diverse partner networks, and inventive ways of combining top-level artistic work with participatory audience engagement. fibo.fi