This year's Young Artists of the Festival concert will feature Eevi Hasu, Julia Elomaa and Sauli Aaltonen.
The Youth Piano Academy has been successfully training talented young pianists since 2013. Over the years, the Young Artists of the Festival concert has welcomed many super talents who have gone on to international success. Here are the stars of the future!
The Young Piano Academy, together with the String Academy and the Brass Academy, form the Instrument Academies Association, which is funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.
Artistic Director of the Mänttä Music Festival Niklas Pokki introduces the concert in the Kivijärvi Hall at 14:30 (in Finnish). The concert ends approximately at 16:10.
Programme
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Vers la vie nouvelle (1918)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonatine (1905):
I Modéré
II Mouvement de menuet
III Animé
Eevi Hasu
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes (1903):
Pagodes
La soirée dans Grenade
Jardins sous la pluie
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade in A-flat major Op. 47
Julia Elomaa
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940)
April Preludes Op. 13
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Prelude in B minor Op. 32
Études-Tableaux C minor Op. 39
Sauli Aaltonen