Pre-opening concert
2.8.2025
12.00
Shopping Center Stella
Performers
Mikkelli Music Festival, artistic director Erkki Lasonpalo, violin
Festival director Mirva Helske, piano
Sinfoniaorkesteri Vivo strings
Program
The Pre-Opening concert will feature interviews of the festival directors of the 2025 festival program, as well as light classical music, including composition from Heino Kaski, Oskar Merikanto and Jean Sibelius. Performers are the artistic director of the festival Erkki Lasonpalo (violin), festival director Mirva Helske (piano) and Matti Turunen (bass). Turunen performs as a soloist of Mozart Requiem 10th of August.
In addition, young musicians from Symphony Orchestra Vivo will interpret numbers from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, which they shall perform as an entity in their own concert on 4.8.2025.
Guests at the day opening:
Jaana Strandman, politician
Erkki Lasonpalo, artistic director
Mirva Helske, festival director
Heidi Hänninen, chariman of the board for Vivo
Matti Turunen, bass, 10.8. concert soloist
Players from Symphony Orchestra Vivo
Introduction
Warmly welcome to Mikkeli Music Festival pre-opening concert at shopping center Stella.
Tickets
Free entrance
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