The Festival Head Start (Varaslähtö) is the closing concert of the Nordic Piano Academy's master class and, as the name suggests, a head start into the week of the Mänttä Music Festival.
The Nordic Piano Academy organises an annual master class for young pianists in conjunction with the Mänttä Music Festival. It brings together talented pianists of school and upper secondary school age from all the Nordic countries. The master class is organised in cooperation with the Youth Piano Academy Finland.
More details about the programme and performers will be published on this page at a later date.
Nordic Piano Academy's professors in 2024
- Ivari Ilja, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia
- Patrick Jovell, Lidingö Music School, Stockholm, Sweden
- Marina Pliassova, Barratt Due Institute of Music, Oslo, Norway
- Niklas Pokki, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
French Suite No. 5 in G major
I Allemande
II Courante
Nuutti Hirvonen, 14 (Finland)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fuga in C-sharp major BWV 848, DWK I
Anaïs Grabowski, 14 (Norway)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G-sharp minor
Nooa Hilli, 14 (Finland)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Etude-Tableau Op. 33 No. 7 in E-flat major
Väinö Viljanen, 16 (Finland)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Estampes:
III Jardins sous la pluie
Hilma Kolunen, 17 (Finland)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin:
VI Toccata
Sauli Aaltonen, 15 (Finland)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Toccata Op. 11
Yufeng Pan, 14 (Sweden)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Suite D-d:
IX Les Tourbillons
Suite E-e:
VII Musette en rondeau
VIII Tambourin
Hillevi Björkman, 16 (Finland)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and fuga in C-sharp major BWV 848, DWK I
Julia Elomaa, 17 (Finland)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Sonata No. 13 in A major D.664:
III Allegro
Ella Oksava, 16 (Finland)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata Op. 78 in F-sharp major ”à Thérèse”
II Allegro vivace
Atte Kohtala, 16 (Finland)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata Op. 81a in E-flat major ”Les Adieux”:
III Das Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente: Im lebhaftesten Zeitmaße
Kaika Niskakangas, 18 (Finland)
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Etyde Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor
Jesse Mäki, 16 (Finland)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 in A major
Maximilian Fagerlund, 17 (Finland)
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Nocturno Op. 24 No. 8
Vilina Rainisto, 17 (Finland)
Sergei Rachmaninov
Preludes Op. 23 No. 9 in E-flat minor and No. 2 in B-flat major
Guillermo Ramírez Ortega, 17 (Estonia)