Festival Programme

Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste has established himself as one of the outstanding conductors of his generation, demonstrating remarkable musical depth and integrity. Born in Heinola, Finland, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Saraste served as Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 2010 until July 2019. His previous positions include Music Director and Chief
Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (from 2006 to 2013), of which he is now Conductor Laureate, as well as the principal conductorships of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony
Orchestra. He also was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
He founded the Finnish Chamber Orchestra and the orchestra´s annual Tammisaari
Festival, for which he is Artistic Director. Last but not least, he is a founding
member of LEAD! The Orchestra Project, which aims to teach effective musical
leadership and communication skills to aspiring young musicians within the context of orchestra playing, in workshops and masterclasses.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s restless innovation drives him constantly to reposition classical music in the 21st century. He is currently in his first season as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony. He is also the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, where the award-winning RE-RITE and Universe of Sound installations have allowed people all over the world to step inside the orchestra through audio and video projections. Salonen also drove the development of a much-hailed app for iPad, The Orchestra, which gives the user unprecedented access to the internal workings of eight symphonic works. As the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he is now Conductor Laureate, Salonen was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and made the orchestra one of the best attended and funded in the country.

He is the cofounder of the annual Baltic Sea Festival. In 2015 he addressed the Apple Distinguished Educa-tor conference on the uses of technology in music education, and his Violin Concerto was featured in an international campaign for iPad.

Hannu Lintu

Hannu Lintu enters his eighth year as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the 2020/21 season. Highlights include Schumann’s Faust Szenen, Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust and the second-ever FRSO Festival – devoted in 2019 to new and large-scale works by national composer Magnus Lindberg.

In May 2019 Lintu was appointed Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, a role which he commences in August 2021 as his final season as the FRSO’s Chief Conductor comes to a close. The appointment follows a series of hugely successful collaborations with the company – including Tristan und Isolde in 2016, Sibelius’s Kullervo in 2017, Berg’s Wozzeck in 2019 and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 2020 – and reflects Lintu’s shifting focus into the field of opera. Future productions will include the majority of the house’s rescheduled Ring cycle which will recommence with Die Walkure in Autumn 2022.

Also in 2021 Lintu makes his highly anticipated debut with Opéra national de Paris, conducting Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Lintu also regularly conducts at the Savonlinna Festival, most recently for productions of Verdi’s Otello (2018) and Sallinen’s Kullervo (in 2017, as part of Finland’s centenary celebrations).

Dalia Stasevska

Dalia Stasevska’s charismatic and dynamic musicianship has established her as a conductor of exceptional versatility. Chief Conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra from 2021/22 season and Principal Guest Conductor to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, she made her BBC Proms debut in 2019 and conducted the Last Night of the Proms in 2020. Dalia was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award in 2020.
Highlights of the 2020/21 season include debuts with Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre National de France and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and returns to Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra amongst others. Dalia will close the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s season with violinist Pekka Kuusisto performing Lindberg’s Violin Concerto. Recent engagements have included Oslo Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, NAC Ottawa and Detroit Symphony orchestras.
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A passionate opera conductor, she returned to Norske Opera to conduct Madam Butterfly last season following her debut with Lucia di Lammermoor in 2018. She has conducted Don Giovanni with Kungliga Opera Stockholm, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg as well as Opéra de Toulon conducting Eugene Onegin. She has conducted Cunning Little Vixen with Finnish National Opera as well as Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, featuring Anne-Sofie von Otter.
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Dalia originally studied as a violinist and composer at the Tampere Conservatoire and violin, viola and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. As conductor her teachers include Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam. In December 2018, she had the honour of conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm.

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Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Jukka-Pekka Saraste has established himself as one of the outstanding conductors of his generation, demonstrating remarkable musical depth and integrity. Born in Heinola, Finland, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Saraste served as Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 2010 until July 2019. His previous positions include Music Director and Chief
Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (from 2006 to 2013), of which he is now Conductor Laureate, as well as the principal conductorships of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony
Orchestra. He also was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
He founded the Finnish Chamber Orchestra and the orchestra´s annual Tammisaari
Festival, for which he is Artistic Director. Last but not least, he is a founding
member of LEAD! The Orchestra Project, which aims to teach effective musical
leadership and communication skills to aspiring young musicians within the context of orchestra playing, in workshops and masterclasses.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s restless innovation drives him constantly to reposition classical music in the 21st century. He is currently in his first season as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony. He is also the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, where the award-winning RE-RITE and Universe of Sound installations have allowed people all over the world to step inside the orchestra through audio and video projections. Salonen also drove the development of a much-hailed app for iPad, The Orchestra, which gives the user unprecedented access to the internal workings of eight symphonic works. As the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he is now Conductor Laureate, Salonen was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and made the orchestra one of the best attended and funded in the country.

He is the cofounder of the annual Baltic Sea Festival. In 2015 he addressed the Apple Distinguished Educa-tor conference on the uses of technology in music education, and his Violin Concerto was featured in an international campaign for iPad.

Hannu Lintu

Hannu Lintu enters his eighth year as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the 2020/21 season. Highlights include Schumann’s Faust Szenen, Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust and the second-ever FRSO Festival – devoted in 2019 to new and large-scale works by national composer Magnus Lindberg.

In May 2019 Lintu was appointed Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, a role which he commences in August 2021 as his final season as the FRSO’s Chief Conductor comes to a close. The appointment follows a series of hugely successful collaborations with the company – including Tristan und Isolde in 2016, Sibelius’s Kullervo in 2017, Berg’s Wozzeck in 2019 and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos in 2020 – and reflects Lintu’s shifting focus into the field of opera. Future productions will include the majority of the house’s rescheduled Ring cycle which will recommence with Die Walkure in Autumn 2022.

Also in 2021 Lintu makes his highly anticipated debut with Opéra national de Paris, conducting Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Lintu also regularly conducts at the Savonlinna Festival, most recently for productions of Verdi’s Otello (2018) and Sallinen’s Kullervo (in 2017, as part of Finland’s centenary celebrations).

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Jorma Panula

Celebrating his 90th birthday this year, the conductor Jorma Panula is a renowned composer and arranger, but is most well-known for his role as Professor of Orchestral Training and Orchestral Conducting at the Sibelius Academy, where he served from 1973 until 1994. As a pedagogue, Panula has been a teacher and mentor to many Finnish internationally acclaimed conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Sakari Oramo and Susanna Mälkki.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s restless innovation drives him constantly to reposition classical music in the 21st century. Being Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, his award-winning “RE-RITE” and “Universe of Sound” installations have introduced new ways for people to approach the classical music through audio and video projections. Salonen is also the Artist in Association at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, and the cofounder of the annual Baltic Sea Festival. He will also become Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony in August 2020.

Dalia Stasevska

Dalia Stasevska’s charismatic and dynamic musicianship has established her as a conductor of exceptional versatility. She currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and will begin as Chief Conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Sibelius Festival in 2021. Stasevska has studied violin, viola and conducting at the Sibelius Academy, and her teachers in conducting include Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam.

Sakari Oramo

Sakari Oramo is Chief Conductor of both the BBC Symphony and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras. His performances have been praised to combine structural cohesion with authority, elegance and passionate delivery. Since January 2020, Oramo is the Professor of Orchestral Training and Orchestral Conducting at the Sibelius Academy, succeeding Jorma Panula, Leif Segerstam and Atso Almila.

Klaus Mäkelä

Klaus Mäkelä is Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra from August 2020, and becomes Music Director of Orchestre de Paris in September 2022. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Artist in Association with Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Artistic Director of the Turku Music Festival. Mäkelä started his conducting studies at the Sibelius Academy’s Junior Academy with Jorma Panula at the age of 12.

Monday, 3rd August 2020

* Conductors’ Masterclass

10.00 - 15.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

* Conductors' Feedback Session

15.30 - 17.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

Open to the public, free entrance

*Chamber Music Concert

19.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

Music by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn

Free entrance

Tuesday, 4th August 2020

* Conductors’ Masterclass

10.00 - 15.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

* Conductors’ Feedback Session

15.30 - 17.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

Open to the public, free entrance

*Chamber Music Concert

19.00 - Valimo, Peltorivi 36, 10470 Fiskars

Music by Brahms and Haydn

Free entrance

Wednesday, 5th August 2020

* Conductors’ Masterclass

10.00 - 15.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

* Open discussion “The conductor as leader: how has the role evolved over time”

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Sakari Oramo and others

15.00 - Lukaali, Fiskarsintie 318, 10470, Fiskars

Open to the public, free entrance

Thursday, 6th August 2020

*Fiskars Summer Festival Young Conductors’ Concerts

18.00 - Laurentius Hall, Kirkkokatu 6, Lohja

20.00 - Laurentius Hall, Kirkkokatu 6, Lohja

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor, Jorma Panula, conductor

Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Young conductors from the LEAD! Foundation Academy

Music by Jean Sibelius, Igor Stravinsky and Joseph Haydn

Friday, 7th August 2020

*Fiskars Summer Festival Young Conductors’ Final Concert

18.30    Pre-concert talk with Jukka-Pekka Saraste

19.00 - Old Fiskars Knife Factory, Peltorivi 5, 110470, Raasepori

Tickets: 33.50 Euro, www.Lippu.fi

Jukka-Pekka Saraste & Jorma Panula, conductors Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Young conductors from the LEAD! Foundation Academy

Music by Jean Sibelius, Igor Stravinsky and Joseph Haydn

*Open discussion “Branding and Artistic Identity”

Members of the Fiskars community, Jukka-Pekka Saraste,

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sakari Oramo, Klaus Mäkelä, Dalia Stasevska and Jorma Panula

21.00 - Valimo, Peltorivi 36, 10470 Fiskars

Open to the public, free entrance

 Saturday, 8th of August 2020

*Roundtable discussion “Directing the Future”

Aleksi Malmberg, moderator

17.30- Old Fiskars Knife Factory, Peltorivi 5, 110470, Raasepori

Free entrance

*Celebration Concert – “Panula’s Class” in honour of Jorma Panula’s 90th birthday

19.00 - Old Fiskars Knife Factory, Peltorivi 5, 110470, Raasepori Tickets: 59.50 Euro, www.Lippu.fi

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sakari Oramo, Klaus Mäkelä, Dalia Stasevska, Jorma Panula conductors, Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Young conductor from the LEAD! Foundation Academy

Music by Bartók, Vasks, Salonen and Tchaikovsky