PRESS RELEASE 10.6.2024
Helsinki Philharmonic Choir (HPC) and Jonas Rannila have mutually agreed to terminate their contract. Rannila has served as the Artistic Director of HPC since 2016. HPC thanks Rannila for the good cooperation over the past years. The recruitment process for a new Artistic Director will begin immediately.
The Helsinki Philharmonic Choir Association is seeking an
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
for a fixed-term employment for the period of September 1st, 2024-July 31st, 2025
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HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
The Helsinki Philharmonic Choir (in Finnish: Helsingin filharmoninen kuoro, HFK) was founded in 2007 and has established itself as one of Finland's leading mixed choirs. It has built up a reputation for its challenging repertoire and its expressive and metallic sound.
In recent years the repertoire included amongst others the requiems by Verdi, Mozart and Brahms, Klami's Psalmus and Orff's Carmina Burana. The choir has also performed in opera and operetta productions like Puccini's Turandot (2020, 2023), Lehár's Giuditta (2019), Verdi's Don Carlos (2018) or Bernstein's Candide (2018, 2022). In the fall of 2023 HFK was a guest artist in the Finnish National Opera and Ballet's production Messa da Requiem.
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The Mikkeli Music Festival's opening concert will be an ode to joy as the Saimaa Sinfonietta orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Choir will take the stage. The concert will be conducted by Aliisa Neige Barrière.
The concert's program includes along the lines of the festival's theme Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 which was premiered in Vienna in 1824. The second piece in the concert will be Luukas Hiltunen's Scintillation -a work for orchestra and mixed choir, which will see its premiere in this opening concert in Mikkeli in August 2024.
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3.8.2024 20:00
Mikaeli, Martti Talvela Hall, Mikkeli
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Su 21.7. 17:00
KANGASNIEMI MUSIC FESTIVAL
FINAL CONCERT
Song of the seasons
Poetry concert for narrator and choir
Helsinki Philharmonic Choir
conductor Seppo Murto
actress Armi Toivanen, narration
manuscript and dramaturgy Juhani Koivisto
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Kangasniemi church
Tickets 35 €
Suuri sekakuoro oli valmistautunut suureen tehtäväänsä hyvin huolellisesti. Se on kurinalainen, yhtenäiseksi hiottu laulajisto, jonka soinnikkaat ääniryhmät ovat hyvässä tasapainossa keskenään ja erottuvat omiksi selkeiksi linjoikseen lämpimässä ja valoisassa, puhtaassa yhteissoinnissa.
Kuoron rytmikäs fugaalinen iskevyys teki Händel-henkisistä nousuista esityksen juhlavia ja fantastisia huippuhetkiä.
- Helsingin Sanomat 9.2.2024
Song of the seasons concert
Kangasniemi Music Festival
21.7.2024 17:00
Kangasniemi church
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Mikkeli Music Festival opening concert
Hiltunen: Scintillation (premiere)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
3.8.2024 20:00
Mikaeli, Martti Talvela hall, Mikkeli
