Nuori Taiteilija 2024: ANTON MEJIAS

3.8.2025 • 17.00

Mikaeli, Martti Talvela Hall

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Nuori Taiteilija 2024: ANTON MEJIAS

3.8.2025

17.00

Mikaeli, Martti Talvela Hall

Performers

Anton Meijas, piano

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Das wohltemperierte Klavier II, 24 preludes and fugues
Philip Lasser (s. 1963): “The Art of Memory” – 12 Preludes for Solo Piano in descending chromatic order from E to F (Finnish premiere)

Introduction

The Mikkeli Music Festival has selected Cuban-Finnish pianist Anton Mejias as its Young Artist of 2024. Meijas has already embarked on an international career as he has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Tarmo Peltokoski in the summer of 2023. He has also been awarded the 2024 Musikfest Bremen Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk.

The program for Mejias's recital at the Mikkeli Music Festival will include music by Johann Sebastian Bach, with whom Mejias has had a particularly close relationship since a very young age.

Photo: ©Jiyang Chen

Tickets

59€ / 49€ (children)

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