The singer Cyrille Aimée has cancelled her all upcoming shows due to unforeseen personal circumstances, including her concerts with the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra on Thursday 14 November at the Savoy Theatre in Helsinki, Friday 15 November at Flame Jazz in Sigyn Hall in Turku and Saturday 16 November at G Livelab in Tampere.

The Canadian jazz vocalist Caity Gyorgy will replace Aimée as UMO's soloist. A two time JUNO award winning Gyorgy is now performing in Europe for the first time. She is especially known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at jazz clubs and festivals across Canada, Mexico, Japan and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Bryn Roberts and Joe LaBarbera, to name a few. In addition to being a performer, Gyorgy is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and have won multiple awards including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

She is currently signed to Brooklyn label La Reserve Records and has released several albums of original and standard music with them including her two JUNO award winning albums "Now Pronouncing"2021 and "Featuring" 2022 and her JUNO nominated album with pianist Mark Limacher titled "You’re Alike, You Two” 2023. Her newest album "Hello! How Are You?" features Caity accompanied by her regular piano trio and was released on August 9th, 2024. www.caitygyorgy.com

The concerts are part of UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra's The Great Voices concert series. The tour is led by Teemu Takanen, who makes his debut as UMO's conductor. The duration of the concert is 2 hours, including an intermission.

Teemu Takanen (b. 1984) is a conductor, composer, arranger and saxophonist who, in addition to conducting and playing, is regularly employed by various composition commissions. Takanen has collaborated with several Finnish orchestras, big bands and theatres. The innovative music all-rounder, who graduated from the Sibelius Academy with a master's degree in music, has been awarded multiple times in various composition and arrangement competitions. www.teemutakanen.com

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is the only professional orchestra in Finland specialised in jazz and new rhythm-oriented music. The big band of 16 musicians plays about 100 concerts every year in Finland and abroad. The orchestra plays a diverse range of modern music that is on the pulse of the times. The programme varies from jazz to soul and classical music, mixing old and new in surprising way, from children to senior citizens. www.umohelsinki.fi

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