Fanfare for Fuuga – Ateljee Opening Concert

Igor Stravinsky: Fanfare for a New Theatre
Olli Mustonen: Ilosoitto
Leif Segerstam – Gunnar Björling: Det livet är vackrast
Jorma Panula – L. Onerva: Four Songs to Poems by L. Onerva
Jean Sibelius: En glad musikant
Outi Tarkiainen: Woodland Fanfares
Eddie Lewis: Joy Fanfare
Igor Stravinsky: Septet
Minna Leinonen: New Work (commission, world premiere)

Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Mikko Kouki, narration
Henna Jämsä, clarinet
Andreas Anthopoulos, bassoon
Tanja Nisonen, horn, programme planning
Gabriel Slesinger, trumpet
NN, trumpet
Annika Sinisalo, violin
Alexander Pozdniakovas, viola
Anna Westerlund, cello
Jussi Littunen, piano

Musicians of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra perform the eagerly awaited first notes in the Ateljee Hall of the Music Centre Fuuga. The opening concert is celebrated with a variety of fanfares, and the evening’s music resonates with joy and a sense of new beginnings. Sibelius’s solo violin piece En glad musikant is like a portrait of the orchestra’s happiness in its new home. The programme also reflects TPO’s history, featuring music by former Artistic Director Olli Mustonen and former Chief Conductors Leif Segerstam and Jorma Panula. Stravinsky’s opening fanfare and Septet frame the concert, which concludes with the world premiere of a new work by Minna Leinonen, commissioned especially for the Ateljee opening. Marking the beginning of a new era and collaboration, Mikko Kouki, Director of the Turku City Theatre, will also take part by reciting excerpts of poetry between the pieces.