17.12.2024
Joik, folk music, Shostakovich, Mozart and new acquaintances
- Season tickets and series tickets now for sale for Spring 2025
Spring season 2025 of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra will include music from joik and folk music to Schubert and Shostakovich. In addition to Kokkola and Music Center Snellman, the orchestra will visit nearby towns and cities and revisit Würzburg, Germany. Season tickets and series tickets will be on sale from 12 December.
The upcoming spring season of the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO) includes several genre breaking projects. Pekka Kuusisto, one of Finland's most internationally renowned violinists, will bring to Kokkola the Ume sámi singer-songwriter Katarina Barruk (21st of January). The programme includes music by J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt and Philipp Glass, as well as joiks written by Barruk.
During the spring, the orchestra will be joined for the first time by folk music group Frigg, who tour the world with their fusion of Scandinavian folk music (9thof May). Last autumn's sold-out Arppa concert was a hit, and it will now be performed again on 28th of May, when Arppa and his band together will the Orchestra perform arrangements of Arppa's hits by Mikko Pellinen.
The spring is packed with both Finnish and international talent: the season opens with a visit from Italian violinist-orchestral leader Lorenza Borrani on Fri 17th of January. Internationally acclaimed Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk is conducting the orchestra on 7th of March. Emilia Hoving, another internationally successful conductor of the younger generation, will lead the orchestra on 25th of April. Kasmir Uusitupa, prize winner at the Jorma Panula Conducting Competition in autumn 2024, will be conducting a concert on 21st of March. Tomas Djupsjöbacka will be both conductor and cello soloist om March 28th, while cellist Timo-Veikko Valve will lead the orchestra from his instrument at Kaustinen Chamber Music Week on 31st of January. Soloists during the season include violinist Hugo Ticciati, pianist Miikka Taipale and oboist Takuya Takashima.
The OCO’s artistic director Malin Broman performs with the orchestra in Kokkola, Ylivieska and Würzburg, Germany. Malin's soloists in Finland will be the orchestra's own musicians: on 21st of February, Ulla Lampela will be the cello soloist with a programme consisting of Hungarian and Romanian string orchestral gems. In April (11-12 April), the same programme as in Germany will be presented to the home audience; in Finland, Malin will perform Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in Finland with Saara Kurki, in Germany with Amihai Grosz, principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
The year 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death, which will also be reflected in the orchestra’s repertoire with music by Shostakovich in two concerts. Music by Arvo Pärt, who is celebrating his 90th birthday, will also be performed during the spring. OCO is renowned for commissioning and performing new music, and March will be a celebration of premieres. On 28th of March, 'Beauty cravings', a work commissioned from composer Matilda Seppälä will have its world premiere. Baltic music has also been an important part of the orchestra's repertoire; on 7th of March, the Finnish premiere of 'Ekaggata' for violin and chamber orchestra by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė will take place. New music will also be on offer on 3rd of April, when the young conductor Mikael Loponen conduct music by students from the composition class at the Sibelius Academy. Lauri Pulakka, the orchestra's 1st principal cellist and programme coordinator, who passed away last summer, will be remembered on 21st of May at Kaarlela Church through chamber music close to him.
As a new feature this spring, there is now a low-cost series ticket consisting of five concerts free of choice. The series ticket can be purchased for, pensioner and student prices. There are also different price categories for the traditional season ticket, which gives access to nine concerts. Both the season ticket and the series ticket come with other benefits, such as free concert programme and coffee at the Dolce restaurant at every concert.
Season tickets, series tickets and concert tickets for the Arppa concert on 28th of May will go on sale on 12th of December 2024 via www.netticket.fi . Single tickets for the other concerts will be available from 2.1.2025. Tickets can also be purchased at Luckan in the City Library and at the concert venue starting one hour before the concert (please note that the door price is higher than the advance sale price).
