The Mikkeli Region Tourism Service awarded the Mikkeli Music Festival with the Tourism Achievement of the Year 2023 award for its phenomenal renewal and success. This recognition, together with the Festival of the Year 2023 title, demonstrates how a cultural event can have not only great artistic value but also great regional economic significance.
- The covid years and changes in world politics posed challenges for the Mikkeli Music Festival, but it emerged victorious. Cooperation with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the leadership of conductor Santtu-Matias Rouval laid the foundations for building a top international festival, says a press release from Mikkelin Kehitysyhtiö Miksei Oy.
Mikkeli Music Festival has developed with ambition and managed to turn challenges into a success story. The upswing has been tremendous since the loss of previous partnerships. The programme is varied and will be announced well in advance," says Maisa Häkkinen, Managing Director of the Mikkeli Region Tourism Service Association, explaining the selection of the Tourism Work of the Year award.
Häkkinen emphasises the importance of Mikkeli Music Festival for the local economy.
- Every summer, the music festival brings both domestic and international tourists to the region, and thus customers for local businesses. Locals and leisure visitors are also an important part of the audience.
The award was received by Mirva Helske, the new festival director of the Mikkeli Music Festival, at the Entrepreneurs' Gala in Savonlinna on 20 January 2024. Helske also sees the festival as playing an important role not only as a high-quality cultural event, but also as a promoter of well-being in the region.
- Regional development is an important part of the Mikkeli Music Festival's mission. A visit to the festival combines many great things: a high-quality concert experience, local culture and the region's magnificent nature, which is exotic, especially for international visitors," says Helske.
Helske honours those who have done the work and made it possible with the Tourism Achievement of the Year Award.
-On behalf of Mikkeli Music Festival, I would like to thank the previous festival directors, the board, the organisation's employees and the large number of volunteers who have given their time and effort to the organisation of the event," Helske says.
A special thank you to the supporters of the Mikkeli Music Festival! The support of the Jane & Aatos Erkko Foundation, the City of Mikkeli, the South Savo Regional Council, Osuuskauppa Suur-Savo and other companies that have been involved in our activities over the past few years has enabled Mikkeli Music Festival to develop and create a new direction for the festival.
Many thanks are also to the artists who have performed at the festival, all the guests who have attended the concerts and the people of Mikkeli who cherish and care for the festival. Great things are done together.
Mikkeli Music Festival looks to next summer and the future. Under the leadership of our Artistic Director Erkki Lasonpalo, we will continue to highlight young musicians through the Vivo partnership and the Young Artist of the Year Awards. We will also strengthen our cooperation with local talent, including orchestras and other cultural actors in the Saimaa region.
At the same time, we will continue to work for tourism and international business cooperation in South Savo. The bridge to London has been opened and will be strengthened with the Philharmonia until 2026.
-The door to partnership with our festival is open for companies in South Savo who want to go in a new direction with us! says festival director Helske.
15.11.2024
Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlien konserttivieraat käyttävät konsertissa käydessään konserttilippujen oston lisäksi keskimäärin kaksisataa euroa alueen palveluiden ja tuotteiden ostoon. Konserttivieraiden kokonaiskulutuskysynnän kasvu oli vuoden 2024 juhlaviikon aikana suorina ostoina alueen palveluihin ja tuotteisiin keskimäärin noin 860 000 euroa.
Read more14.8.2024
Katso konserttitallenne Sinfonia Orkesteri Vivon ja Orkester Nordenin konsertista Lahdesta!
Read more9.8.2024
Teemme tutkimusta Mikkelein Musiikkijuhlien aluetaloudellisista vaikutuksista, sekä vaikutuksista Mikkelin elinvoimaan. Tutkimuksella on suuri merkitys festivaalin suunnittelu- ja kehitystyölle.
Read more8.8.2024
Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlat avaa lipunmyynnin osaan 2025 konserteista
Read more30.7.2024
Musiikkijuhlat lähestyy! Listasimme viimehetken tärpit festivaaliviikolle ja onnistuneeseen vierailuun Mikkelissä.
Read more29.7.2024
Ticket office opening hours and locations.
Read more29.7.2024
Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlat tuovat tänäkin vuonna laajan kattauksen kiinnostavia puheenvuoroja ja upeaa musiikkia Kauppakeskus Stellan Tähtitorille!
Read more15.7.2024
Musiikkijuhlien On the Move-kiertue tarjoaa erilaisen musiikkikokemuksen eri puolilla Etelä-Savoa 29.7.-1.8. välisenä aikana. Kyseessä on festivaaleilla esiintyvän lontoolaisen Philharmonia Orchestran virtuaalitodellisuus kokemus, jossa pääsee kokemaan konsertin sen parhailta paikoilta eli orkesterin kanssa lavalta.
Read more29.6.2024
Tutustu artikkelista Osuuskaupan asiakasomistajan konserttietuihin, S-ryhmän vapaapääsyisiin On the move! -konsertteihin sekä Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlien aikana palveleviin ravintoloihin.
Read more14.6.2024
On the Move! -konserttisarja tuo jälleen Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlat lähelle kuulijoita Mikkelin seudun kartanoihin, ravintoloihin ja kauppakeskuksiin. Tarjolla on tuttuun tapaan laadukasta musiikkia pääosin ilmaisissa tapahtumissa Pieksämäeltä Ristiinaan. 2024–2026 Veej’jakaja- & Leader-hanketuen saanut On the Move! toimii Mikkelin seudulla kulttuuritoimijoita ja -yhteisöjä yhdistävänä voimana.
Read more1.5.2024
Suuret orkesterit, kuorot ja taidokkaat solistit tarjoilevat sekä tuttua että tuoretta taidemusiikkia.
Read more26.3.2024
The 4.8 concert will feature game music for all tastes, from new to retro games. Come and jump into the amazing soundscapes of game music!
Read more25.3.2024
Mikkeli Music Festival Summer 2024 offers a rich array of vocal art, from Waltteri Torika's church concert to Iris Candelaria's song recital to the Philharmonia Orchestra's opera gala conducted by Ville Matvejeff.
Read more26.1.2024
The Mikkeli Region Tourism Service awarded the Mikkeli Music Festival with the Tourism Achievement of the Year 2023 award for its phenomenal renewal and success. This recognition, together with the Festival of the Year 2023 title, demonstrates how a cultural event can have not only great artistic value but also great regional economic significance.
Read more29.12.2023
Mikkeli Music Festival has appointed Master of Arts Mirva Helske as Festival Director. Helske will start her employment 1 January 2024.
Read more15.12.2023
In addition to the previously released orchestral concerts, the Game Music Collective and chamber musicians from Finland and the UK will be in the spotlight. The theme of the festival is Ode to Joy.
Read more17.8.2023
Erinomaisesti sujunut yhteistyö saa jatkoa.
Read more2.8.2023
Illan solistina esiintyy sopraano Miina-Liisa Värelä
Read more31.7.2023
Vuonna 2024 Mikkelin Musiikkijuhlat soivat eurooppalaisille arvoille.
Read more29.7.2023
Conductor Aliisa Neige Barrière and composer Luukas Hiltunen awarded 1 000 € and a concert in 2024 festival
Read more28.7.2023
Free entrance
Read more27.4.2023
25.4.2023
3.4.2023
Unfortunately, the concert Moments of Love is cancelled.
Read more17.3.2023
Mikkeli Music Festival has appointed Mikko Leppänen, Bachelor of Economics, Master of Music, as the Festival Director of the Music Festival.
Read more15.3.2023
Sääntömääräinen vuosikokous pidetään tiistaina 28.03.2023 klo 16.00 Konsertti- ja kongressitalo Mikaelissa, Sointukatu 1, Mikkeli.
Read more21.2.2023
Mikkeli Music Festival has appointed conductor Erkki Lasonpalo as the artistic director of the Music Festival. Lasonpalo takes over the position immediately, and the artistic director's term of office extends to the end of the 2026 Festival Week.
Read more16.2.2023
The international Scan Magazine praises the festival full of concerts of international top musicians in its article.
Read more9.2.2023
Teemu Laasanen, who has been the festival director of the Mikkeli Music Festival since 2018, will fully take over the management of the company he has founded, MusicFairyTales MFT, of which he is the CEO.
Read more28.11.2022
The theme of summer 2023 is Licence to Love. Love is explored in concerts from different perspectives.
Read more28.11.2022
The Board of Finland Festivals has named the Mikkeli Music Festival as Festival of the Year 2023.
Read more24.11.2022
Founded thirty years ago, the Mikkeli Music Festival has renewed its operating model this summer and is preparing to grow rapidly in the coming years.
Read more7.10.2022
Mikkeli Music Festival signed a four-year cooperation agreement with Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Read more