Jazz Finland Live

Tickets 27 €

Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese vibraphonist, marimba player and composer. Unconstrained by traditional styles, techniques, or compositional theories, he continuously explores new possibilities for his instruments and crafts new sonic landscapes that is unmistakably his own.

The night will be opened by saxophonist Heli Hartikainen Heli Hartikainen is a boundary-breaking saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and sound artist. As one of the boldest improvisers in Finland's experimental music and ambient jazz scenes, Hartikainen's music explores sonic textures and evolving soundscapes, abstractions, and concepts – always rooted in an insatiable love for sound.

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Half a century of jazz greatness and mastery! UMO performs together with HPO to celebrate a career in Finnish jazz that has already spanned 50 years.

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestraare packing a big sack of birthday surprises containing a brilliant selection of jazz standards and classics. The party will be hosted by pianist Iiro Rantala and conductor Teemu Takanen. Iiro’s compositions and Teemu’s tailor-made arrangements will crown the swinging and stylish evening.

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra
Teemu Takanen, conductor, arrangements
Iiro Rantala, piano

Tickets for the event are on sale from 14 May to 4 August for season tickets and from 12 August for single tickets in the Music Centre’s own ticket shop online, at the ticket office and by telephone (tel. 0600 411 101, open weekdays 9 am to 3 pm, call price 0.99 e/min + landline/mobile). The ticket sales customer service point at the Music Centre is open weekdays 1 pm to 6 pm and for an hour before the concert. The online shop is open 24 hours a day.

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Tickets 15/10 €. Support tickets 30 €.

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Standard price 25€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Students/pensioners/children 15€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)

In the collaboration of Sámi musician and poet Niillas Holmberg and saxophonist and composer Pauli Lyytinen, the audience hears about landscapes where water’s edge rises and lowers.

Valaan laulu, jumalten vaate! (The song of the Whale, the cloak of Gods!)

Where are we now, when poem yoik singer and saxophonist drag a mythical song from the waters to dry land; upon what waters? The world Niillas Holmberg and Pauli Lyytinen summon through verse, yoik, saxophone, percussion and live electronics, builds upon the simultaneous presence of centuries, of sleeping and waking.

Entä jos varttuu Järvellä? (But if one grows up by a lake?)

Niille vesille ei valaan laulu ei nouse. (Those waters does whales’ song not reach)

The musical world of the duo is based on channeling, improvisation and strong listening to one another. Their art is not a product called Naarattu laulu; it is a verb. The art is not the catch, but the act of catching something ancient from the misty waters with a net woven together.

The collaboration between Holmberg and Lyytinen began in 2021, and the duo has since performed in several art, literature and music events in Finland, Germany, Italy and Norway. Their working together has been allowed to mature and evolve through live performances. Their first album Naarattu laulu has been recorded and will be published in October 2025.

Holmberg’s poetry has been one of the projects founding elements ever since its beginning, and an anthology by Holmberg, Naarattu, will be published in conjunction with the album.

Kuinka vesi kantaakaan ääntä. (O how the water carries sound)

Niillas Holmberg, recitation, yoik
Pauli Lyytinen, saxophone, live electronics

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