The celebrated combination of Mertanen& Chopin returns to the Ackte Festival. The winner of the Chopin Competition is presenting works from his new recording, which will be released this coming autumn, including Chopin’s mesmerizing Sonata no 3 in B-Minor.   Janne Mertanen, piano  

The versatile soprano sister-duo takes the audience on a musical bridge between Estonia and Finland performing beautiful estonian and finnish songs as well as international opera and musical classics. Angelika Klas, sopran Marion Melnik, sopran Janne Hovi, piano

The Finnish fado singer Kirsi Poutanen and composer-pianist Esa Helasvuo conjure up a shared landscape of the fado soul, both in Portuguese and Finnish, even in Carelian. The concert generates a soul-touching energy.   Kirsi Poutanen, vocals Esa Helasvuo, piano

Pianist Aki Rissanen will present the material of his acclaimed Divided Horizon solo album for the first time in Helsinki. The music of the five-star-rated album in Helsingin Sanomat took shape during the corona pandemic in 2020. “I spent a long time with my family at our cottage in Savo,...

Celebrate a concert program “White Nights” with the Tree and Flower Cycles by Jean Sibelius and the most beloved violin and piano pieces by Pjotr Tchaikowsky and Edvard Grieg tohether with thoughts and aphorisms of Jean Sibelius and poems by Eino Leino.   Ruusamari Teppo, piano Linda Hedlund, violin Suvi Olavinen, recitation