Concerts

15:30 – The Festival Kick-off

The students of the International Master Classes and the Youth Piano Academy perform.

18:30 – The Opening Concert

Olli Mustonen’s long-awaited comeback! The program features a set of Beethoven’s piano sonatas including the beloved Appassionata op. 57.

Olli Mustonen, piano

Beethoven

12:00 – A Moment with Organ I

Drop by and listen to beautiful organ music at noon on Thursday and Friday!

Kalle Toivio, organ

13:00 – Book Release Concert

The publication event of the Finnish translation of André Gide’s ‘Notes sur Chopin’. The translator of the book, Martti Anhava, is being interviewed.

Risto-Matti Marin, piano

15:00 – PianoSuomi100: A New Dawn

Awarded pianists of the I Tampere Piano Competition.

• Anton Mejias, piano
• Fanny Söderström, piano

18:30 – At the Heart of Romanticism

The young German hyper virtuoso Severin von Eckardstein performs e.g. one of the corner stones of piano music literature, Liszt’s sonata in B minor.

Severin von Eckardstein, piano

Liszt, Herchenröder, Schumann, Grieg

10.00-13.00 – Richard Goode’s Master Class

Richard Goode gives a master class at the Kivijärvi-hall. The students are Samuel Eriksson, Liisa Smolander and Tarmo Peltokoski.

12:00 – A Moment with Organ II

Drop by and listen to beautiful organ music at noon on Thursday and Friday!

Kalle Toivio, organ

15:00 – PianoSuomi100: Lecture Concert – Melartin: Per speculum in enigmatae (premiere)

Concert lecture and first performance of Erkki Melartin’s Per speculum in Enigmatae. In Finnish.

Niklas Pokki, lecture

17:00 – One Hand Orchestra

Chopin’s etudes are among the most challenging pieces in the piano literature. This was not enough for piano virtuoso Leopold Godowsky, who arranged many of them for the left hand. Few pianists dare to tackle these pieces of exceptional beauty and virtuosity.

Henri Sigfridsson, piano

Chopin-Godowsky

The Artistic Director Niklas Pokki presents the concert in Finnish at 16.30-16.45 at Serlachius Museum Gösta's Pavilion.

20:00 – Summer Night’s Light – Fabulous Bäckström Brothers

Classical goes groovy!

• Petri Bäckström, tenor
• Jouni Bäckström, baritone
• Jukka Nykänen, piano

12:00 – PianoSuomi100: Fortepiano: The Storyteller

Did you know that the history of Finnish piano music began already 200 years ago? The concert presents the Finnish composers Lithander and Byström and their contemporary, Schubert. The music is performed on fortepiano.

• Anna Kuvaja, fortepiano
• Eveliina Kytömäki, fortepiano

Byström, Lithander, Schubert

15:00 – PianoSuomi100: The Young Artists of the Year

The Mänttä Music Festival proudly presents the piano stars of the future – students from the Youth Piano Academy and the Sibelius Academy´s Junior Academy. The program consists of Finnish piano music from the last 100 years.

Samuel Eriksson, Anlan Fu, Leevi Ollila, Sofia Pätiälä ja Liisa Smolander.

Music reporter Lotta Emanuelsson presents the concert in the Kivijärvi Hall at 14.30-14.45 at Serlachius Museum Gösta (in Finnish). The discussion with the artists and the audience continues after the concert at Serlachius Museum Gösta.

18:30 – PianoSuomi100: Towards the Future, Strength from the Past

Eminent Finnish pianist, Eero Heinonen, plays the first performance of Eero Hämeenniemi’s piece Variazioni Polifoniche, commissioned by the Mänttä Music Festival. Hämeenniemi’s four-hand piece Elastic Time and Schubert’s Piano Sonata D. 960 will also be performed.

• Eero Heinonen, piano
• Jenni Lappalainen, piano

Hämeenniemi (premiere), Mozart, Schubert

Music reporter Lotta Emanuelsson presents the concert in the Kivijärvi Hall at 18.00-18.15 at Serlachius Museum Gösta (in Finnish). The discussion with the artists and the audience continues after the concert at Serlachius Museum Gösta.

10:00 – Sunday Service with Artists

Kalle Toivio, organ

15:00 – Concert for Children: Babar

Pia Kalenius, actress

Eveliina Kytömäki, piano

18:30 – Grand Finale – Gustaf Serlachius in Memoriam

The series of piano legends at the Mänttä Music Festival continues with the concert of the American master pianist Richard Goode. In a versatile programme, ranging from Mozart to Janáček, he will probe the depths and mysteries of the piano literature.

Richard Goode, piano

Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Janáček, Mozart

The Artistic Director Niklas Pokki presents the concert in Finnish at 18.00-18.15 at Serlachius Museum Gösta's Pavilion.