SASTAMALA GREGORIANA - Finland

Sastamala Gregoriana is an annual early music festival that takes place in late July in the city of Sastamala (ca. 57 km from Tampere). It was founded back in 1995 by Maiju Vuorenoja and Kari Kaarna. It is one of the oldest and largest early music events in Finland.

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The festival combines excellent international concert program that consists of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. The main venues of the festival are old lakeside churches of St Mary's and St Olaf's with unique acoustic spaces and history behind them. An international early music masterclass complements the concert series every year.