BAROKKI KUOPIO - Finland
BarokkiKuopio - Early music festival in the heart of Finnish lakeland
BarokkiKuopio focuses on early music in all its glory. Our approach is rooted in traditional early music performed with period instruments, though we also use all kinds of inventive, imaginative instruments and approaches. We also explore using period instruments to perform a wide variety of different musical genres, be it traditional early music, classical music from other eras or greatest hits from the 1980's.
In all our concerts we strive to find the essential spirit, style and message of the music at hand and aim to bring the audience the best possible performance from both traditional and sometimes distinctly untraditional perspectives.
BarokkiKuopio's artistic director is harpsichordist and conductor Matias Häkkinen, who also leads the festivals main partner and orchestra-in-residence Ensemble Nylandia and programs Nylandia's Café Barock concert series. Our programmes include the very best of Finnish early music performers, as well as internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles. BarokkiKuopio has been held in mid-July in Kuopio, eastern Finland since 2005.
The theme of the festival changes annually. In 2024, sparks are sure to fly with our theme of electricity / glamour! Previous years themes include nature / character (2023), feeling / sensation (2022) and house / economy (2021).
BAROKKI KUOPIO
PL 809, Kuopio, Finland
/ barokkikuopio@ensemblenylandia.info
BarokkiKuopio Early Music Festival 2024
Finland
In 2024 sparks are sure to fly in BarokkiKuopio with the festival theme of electricity / glamour!
The program, designed by the festival's artistic director Matias Häkkinen, is filled with vibrant baroque music, electrifying improvisations, inner glow and lightning-fast reactions. What kind of impulses can be sent between the musicians on stage? What kind of energy flows from the stage to the audience and back? Why is there glitter everywhere?
In addition to traditional early music with period instruments we're introducing a brand new electro-acoustic clavichord by harpsichordist and acoustics wizard Jonte Knif, and the European premiere of Sing Nature Alive From My Insides, written to soprano and pianist Rachel Fenlon by composer Matthias McIntire. The festival finishes with a radiant concert of Rameau's and Händel's opera music, performed by Rachel Fenlon & BarokkiKuopio's orchestra-in-residence Ensemble Nylandia led by Matias Häkkinen.
The program, designed by the festival's artistic director Matias Häkkinen, is filled with vibrant baroque music, electrifying improvisations, inner glow and lightning-fast reactions. What kind of impulses can be sent between the musicians on stage? What kind of energy flows from the stage to the audience and back? Why is there glitter everywhere?
In addition to traditional early music with period instruments we're introducing a brand new electro-acoustic clavichord by harpsichordist and acoustics wizard Jonte Knif, and the European premiere of Sing Nature Alive From My Insides, written to soprano and pianist Rachel Fenlon by composer Matthias McIntire. The festival finishes with a radiant concert of Rameau's and Händel's opera music, performed by Rachel Fenlon & BarokkiKuopio's orchestra-in-residence Ensemble Nylandia led by Matias Häkkinen.
