Founded in 1972, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra is the most northerly professional orchestra in Finland, and indeed the entire EU. Conductor and violinist John Storgårds has been the orchestra’s artistic director since 1996. Besides Finland and the northern regions, they have performed at the BBC Proms in London, the Carinthian Summer festival of Austria, and the International Festival of Symphonic Music in Algeria.

The Lapland Chamber Orchestra has been responsible for the Finnish premiere of many a work, including the compositions of Aulis Sallinen, Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Bent Sørensen and Dave Maric. In 2009 their recording of Kalevi Aho’s Rituals was named Album of the Year on Finnish Radio.

They have performed with such popular soloists as Soile Isokoski, Håkan Hardenberger, Christian Tetzlaff, Nicholas Daniel, Nicholas Kraemer, Piers Adams, Colin Currie and Sabine Meyer.

Debussy: Four Preludes for Piano (Sven Birch’s arrangement for the orchestra)
Merikanto: Arioso (after an Ugric folk song)
Edith Canat de Chizy: Lands Away – for strings and cimbalom

Kodály Zoltán: Adagio (Imre Sulyok’s arrangement for the orchestra)
Kalevi Aho: Symphony No. 14, “Rituals”

Featuring:

András Szalai – cimbalom

Conductor and featured on the violin: John Storgårds

Tickets prices: 3.900 HUF, 4.600 HUF
Tickets are available.