Andres Mustonen and Hortus Musicus’ concert on July 29, 2023, has been cancelled, as we do not accept collaboration with Russia from our artists in the current world situation. The Korsholm Music Festival has closely followed the development of the situation in Estonia, where Andres Mustonen's concert and festival visits to Russia have come to the fore. The focus has been on Mustonen’s Russian collaborators and their connections with the Kremlin administration.

 

Those who have already bought tickets to the concert will get their money back and we have contacted them. We regret the situation.

 

Exciting news!

 

We have a new artist engagement at the Music Festival: Ensemble Gamut! who will give a concert in the Palosaari Church on Saturday 29 July at 21 pm.

 

Ensemble Gamut! is a special old music ensemble that has created its unique sound by combining elements from medieval music, Finnish folk tunes, improvisation, and electronic soundscapes. Members of the ensemble are Aino Peltomaa (vocals, medieval harp, percussion, electronics), Ilkka Heinonen (strings, viola da gamba, electronics), and Juho Myllylä (recorders, electronics).

 

You can read more about Gamut's concert on the concert page!

This year the festival's composer-in-residence is Mats Larsson Gothe. During the festival week he will host lunch discussions at our festival café Loftet, with various artists joining him for a lively discussion. Come join us for lunch, talks – there will also be a little music!

 

The first lunch discussion will be held on the first day of the festival, Wednesday 28.7. at 12.30 pm, and Music Festival’s artistic director and violinist Cecilia Zilliacus, conductor Jonathan Stockhammer, soprano Christina Daletska and double bassist Rick Stotijn will join Mats Larsson Gothe for the event.

 

Other lunch discussions will take place on Friday 30.7, Monday 2.8. and Wednesday 4.8. The discussions will begin at 13.00 pm and before that you can enjoy lunch at Loftet. You will find the events from our concert page as well as our programme book – so you can check which artists will be there and when!

 

Free entry to all lunch discussions. The lunch can be paid at Loftet.

This year, our festival is mostly virtual, but fortunateluy the Corona situation in Ostrobothnia and Finland is under control and we are able to invite a limited amount of audience to our concerts. The number of people allowed at the different concert sites varies from 20 seats to a couple of hundred. We still ask the audience to note that the concerts are filmed with a fairly large apparatus and several cameras and this can affect the visibility and make it difficult to concentrate on the music.

 

If you want to guarantee your seat at the concerts, please book at info@korsholmmusicfestival.fi or by calling us on 040 833 2022. We have no tickets for the concerts, except for Laihia Church, where tickets cost 20 € and are for sale via www.netticket.fi. Programmes are for sale at each concert for 10 €.

 

Note! Check out our info regarding Corona security at our concerts here.

 

We allow a limited amount of seats for the following concerts:

28.7. Evening Music - Appassionata
29.7. Opening Concert - Note! No more seats left!

30.7. Finnish violin music from the 20s
31.7 Young musicians & Back to the twenties! 

1.8. Beethoven & the twenties!

2.8. Young musicians

3.8. Total Chamber Music Mania!

4.8. The magic of cello

5.8. Closing Concert