Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Joonas Ahonen, fortepiano and piano
Marianna Henriksson, harpsichord
Emil Holmström, piano
Matleena Koivusaari, piano
Anna-Maaria Oramo, clavisimbalum, harpsichord
Eriikka Maalismaa, violin
Riitta Pesola, cello

Alberga Manor was for a long time the home of the Slöör family; Mary Slöör, for example, the wife of the great Finnish painter Akseli Gallén-Kallela, was a passionate pianist. The house will come to life again as the dining room and vaulted cellar echo to the sound of keyboard instruments ranging from a copy of a 15th-century clavicymbalum to an elegant mid-19th-century grand piano.

Our guides to this keyboard wonderland are renowned Finnish artists. Performing their keyboard magic will be Joonas Ahonen, Marianna Henriksson, Emil Holmström, Matleena Koivusaari and Anna-Maaria Oramo. Joining them with their violin and viola will, respectively, be Pekka Kuusisto, Eriikka Maalismaa and Jussi Tuhkanen, the latter familiar from the Kamus Quartet, and adding her ethereal soprano will be Tuuli Lindeberg. The programme will flow from William Byrd via Brahms to Rebecca Clarke.

Schedule

14:00 Downstairs Schubert, upstairs Viardot
Ahonen, Henriksson, Koivusaari, Lindeberg

16:00 & 17:30 Stories about rain
Ahonen, Holmström, Kuusisto, Lindeberg, Tuhkanen

19:00 Orpheus in Britain
Henriksson, Oramo, Holmström, Maalismaa

Programme:

At 14.00 Downstairs Schubert, upstairs Viardot

Laura Netzel (1839-1927): From Three Songs, op. 47:
No. 1 I natten (Rydberg)
No. 2 Det är brännande yrsel i rosornas doft

Pauline Viardot (1821-1910): From Twelve Poems of Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev:
No. 1 Tsvetok zasohshyi (Pushkin)
No. 5 Zaklinanije (Pushkin)
No. 9 Nje poi, krasavitsa (Pushkin)

Clara Schumann (1819-96): From Sechs Lieder aus der Jucunde, op. 23 :
No. 3 Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort (Rollett)
No. 6 O Lust, o Lust (Rollett)

Beim Abschied

Amy Beach (1867-1944): A Hermit Thrush at Morn, op. 92/2

Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este, from Années de pèlerinage III, S.163

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875): Air Russe varié, op. 17

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Matleena Koivusaari, piano

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Olli Virtaperko (s. 1973): Fantazia “Liberazione”
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Sonata in A Major, D. 959

Joonas Ahonen, fortepiano
Marianna Henriksson, harpsichord

At 16.00 Stories about rain I

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Regenlied and Nachklang, op. 59 (Lindeberg and Holmström)
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): Three Songs (Lindeberg and Kuusisto)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Märchenbilder, op. 113 (Tuhkanen and Ahonen)
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, op. 78 (Kuusisto and Ahonen)

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Joonas Ahonen, piano
Emil Holmström, piano

At 17.30 Stories about rain II

Johannes Brahms: Regenlied and Nachklang, op. 59 (Lindeberg and Holmström)
Rebecca Clarke: Three Songs (Lindeberg and Kuusisto)
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, op. 113 (Tuhkanen and Ahonen)
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major op. 78 (Kuusisto and Ahonen)

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Joonas Ahonen, piano
Emil Holmström, piano

At 19.00 Orpheus in Britain

Henry Purcell (1659–1695): The Blessed Virgin’s expostulation

William Byrd (n. 1540–1623):
The Woods so wilde
Fantasia in D Minor

Tuntematon (1400-luku):
Flos vernalis (Codex Robertsbridge)
There is no rose (Trinity Carol Roll)
Estampie (Codex Robertsbridge)
Deo Gracias Anglia (Selden Carol Book)

Giles Farnaby (n. 1563–1640):
Loth to depart
Daphne

Marianna Henriksson, harpsichord
Anna-Maaria Oramo, clavisimbalum, harpsichord ja soprano

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Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951): Verklärte Nacht, op. 4  (arr. for piano trio Eduard Steuermann)

Eriikka Maalismaa, violin
Emil Holmström, piano
Riitta Pesola, cello

Soprano Tuuli Lindeberg is one of the leading performers of baroque and contemporary vocal music in Finland. The press has often praised her for her clean and expressive voice and versatile musicianship. Tuuli Lindeberg regularly collaborates with the leading orchestras and baroque music ensembles in her native Finland, appearing as a soloist in oratorios, orchestral concerts and recitals on diverse venues of classical music. Ms. Lindeberg gives premiers and collaborates regularly with Finnish composers, among the recent being Juhani Nuorvala, Minna Leinonen, Sampo Haapamäki, and Kaija Saariaho. Ms. Lindeberg shares a passion for teaching. She loves rediscovering forgotten vocal repertoire and enjoys artistic planning.

Orchestral and chamber music repertoires are close to violist Jussi Tuhkanen’s heart, especially as a member of the Kamus Quartet and Jousia Ensemble. In addition to his own teachers, Kamus’s time in the European Chamber Music Academy ECMA, has been important to Tuhkanen’s artistic growth. Since 2008 the Kamus Quartet has held the position as quartet in residence at the Kuopio Conservatory. In 2018 Kamus was appointed artistic director of Our Festival. Jussi Tuhkanen serves as the principal violist at Tapiola Sinfonietta and he has been a faculty member at the Sibelius-Academy since 2021. First prize winner of the Tampere national viola competition in 2006, he has recorded the Viola Concerto by Kalevi Aho as the soloist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. His instrument is a Vincenzo Sannino from 1910.

Harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson is a versatile musician who regularly premieres and records new music, performs as a soloist, arranges chamber music works, participates in opera productions, and tours the world as a member of breakdance shows. She is passionate about interdisciplinarity in art and about combining different styles of music. Together with choreographer Anna Mustonen she has created award winning projects where early baroque music meets new dance styles. Marianna Henriksson’s doctoral studies at the Sibelius Academy are at a concluding stage. Since the beginning of this year she serves as the artistic planner for the Finnish Baroque Orchestra.

Musician Matleena Koivusaari’s main focus at the moment is her doctoral studies at the Sibelius-Academy supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. In her large study titled “Osallistuminen-Participation; one time I bathed for too long and accidentally became a hologram..” she combines music, philosophy, and fiction. Another work in progress is titled The Women Of Birch Island emerging together with Pauliina Koivusaari. Matleena Koivusaari is highly interested in the issues of equality. She has performed extensively across Finland. The latest performances included collaborations with cellist Liina-Mari Raivola and the Game Music Collective. Her album including music by Brahms and Lindberg was released in 2017, and the next one scheduled is one with Henrik Sandås Quintet playing Piazzolla. This year Koivusaari will graduate from Helsinki University majoring in psychology.

Violinist Eriikka Maalismaa performs with numerous Finnish and international chamber music ensembles and has worked as a leader and principal with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki City Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta and Australian Chamber Orchestra. Maalismaa also works with electronic music and multidisciplinary art works. Maalismaa has commissioned and performed violin concertos by Finnish composers such as Veli Kujala and Jouni Hirvelä. Her most recent recordings include the Emma Award-winning Robert Schumann Violin Sonatas for Period Instruments (2019) and Sonatas by Amy Beach and Richard Strauss (2021). She is also active as an organiser, organising the Classical Hietsu series, among others.

Violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto is a musician with many faces. Kuusisto is Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Partner of Saint Paul Chamber and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He is Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from the 2023/24 season. He has given the world premiere performances of both Bryce Dessner’s Violin Concerto and Thomas Adés’s Märchentänze Concerto. During the 2022/23 season Kuusisto debuted with Berliner Philharmoniker and performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. His instrument is the Antonio Stradivari (c.1709) ​‘Scotta’ violin, generously loaned by a patron through Tarisio.

Pianist Joonas Ahonen’s musical interests take him from late 18th-century fortepiano repertoire to giving world premieres of the music of our time. He is a member of Klangforum Wien, one of today’s leading ensembles for contemporary music, and a founding member of the Rödberg Trio playing on period instruments. Recent concert highlights include a performance of Philipp Maintz’s Piano Concerto with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, the world premiere of Bernhard Gander’s Piano Concerto, and solo recital at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. During the 2022–23 season Joonas Ahonen and his regular duo partner violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja toured in Japan and gave a Barbican Centre performance praised by the Guardian.

Emil Holmström performs as a soloist and chamber musician, in bands or at transboundary events. He is a regular guest at Finnish festivals and concert series, he has performed as a soloist with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lapland Chamber Orchestra and The Tapiola Sinfonietta a.o. At the moment Holmström is especially interested in 19th century grand pianos (he owns a Bösendorfer from 1882) as well as the richness of today’s music. He plays new music with the Uusinta Ensemble and defunensemble, as well as with the chamber orchestra Avanti! when he visits them. Holmström has made several recordings for Finland’s public radio, Alba Records a.o. He studied at the Sibelius Academy for Erik. T. Tawaststjerna and continued his studies in Paris for Marie-Françoise Bucquet.

Holmström is an active event organizer, he is one of the people behind Klassinen Hietsu concert series and The Ristiveto Festival. A major effort for 2019-20 was the concert series Helsinki - Bösendorfer -1880, where he dives into 19th century German repertoire with spices from the north. In recent years Holmström has recorded sonatas by Brahms and Schumann with violinist Erika Maalismaa and cellist Markus Hohti. The records, which were recorded on period instruments, have been praised both in Finland and abroad. The record containing the Schumann violin sonatas won the classical Emma Award in 2019.

Harpsichordist and vocalist Anna-Maaria Oramo has performed as a soloist all around the world. She is a member of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Orfeo 55, Ensemble Matheus as well as Amor céu and Gamut ensembles. Her recordings have been rewarded internationally with prizes such as the Diapason d’or in 2020. Anna-Maaria Oramo performs regularly with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. She has been a faculty member at the Novia University of Applied Sciences, Collegium association’s Senior’s baroque workshop, Sastamala Gregoriana Festival, and at the Medieval Music in the Dales Festival in England. She regularly records for the Finnish Broadcasting Company and ARTE. 

Riitta Pesola has studied cello at the Sibelius Academy, where she graduated with excellent grades. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School in New York with Zara Nelsova. After winning the Turku National Cello Competition in 1986, Pesola has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in solo concerts in Finland, several European countries, the United States and Japan. Riitta Pesola is a member of Trio Finlandia and solo cellist of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. Her instrument is the Italian Giovanni Grancino cello dating back to 1698.