PROGRAM 2025
KUMAUS FESTIVAL 13.-17.8.2025 IN LAPPEENRANTA
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13
A TASTE OF KUMAUS 2025
IN COLLABORATION WITH TASTE SAIMAA & LEHMUS ROASTERY
Café Satamatie 6
18:00
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Music accompanies us through all kinds of emotional states. Whether it's joy or sorrow, everyday life or celebration, we often find ourselves selecting music that matches the mood. But how do these emotional tones influence our sense of taste? Does dark roast coffee taste even darker when accompanied by the low frequencies of a cello, or does light roast coffee seem brighter with high-frequency music? And what happens to the tasting experience when the music shifts from beautiful to loud? The string quartet performing at the Kumaus Festival helps us explore the answers to these questions. We experiment and examine how different frequencies and rhythms affect taste perception. Or could it be that drinking coffee changes the way we experience music?
PROGRAM
SEKSTUR FROM VENDSYSSEL - THE PEAT DANCE
GIACOMO PUCCINI - CRISANTEMI
SØNDERHO BRIDAL TRILOGY, PT. II
VITO ŽURAJ - SCRATCH
IMOGEN HOLST - PHANTASY QUARTET
OLD REINLENDER FROM SONDALA
Violins: Essi Höglund, Matti Koponen
Viola: Mari Viluksela
Cello: Annika Valkeajoki
THURSDAY
AUGUST 14
OSA I/PART I
(BLIND CONCERT)
Lappeenranta Hall, 19:00
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Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka (Arr. L. Pekkarinen)
Kumaus Trio: Helka Seppälä, Lauri Pekkarinen and Janne Valkeajoki
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Vito Žuraj - Anthemideae
Essi Höglund, Annika Valkeajoki and Fanny Söderström
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Tara Jovana Valkonen - Avant-Tarde (world premiere)
Kumaus Trio: Helka Seppälä, Lauri Pekkarinen and Janne Valkeajoki
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Kaija Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens
Lauri Pekkarinen
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Intermission
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Keiko Harada - F-fragments
Janne Valkeajoki and Fanny Söderström
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Thomas Ades - O Albion
Essi Höglund, Matti Koponen, Mari Viluksela and Annika Valkeajoki
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FRIDAY
AUGUST 15
KUMAUS CANDLELIGHT CONCERT
Lappee Church, 19:00
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The hugely popular candlelight concert returns!
The program will feature works by, among others, Puccini, Žuraj, and Gubaidulina.
The Program of Candlelight Concert
Vito Žuraj - Scratch
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Giacomo Puccini - Crisantemi
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Sofia Gubaidulina - In Croce
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Imogen Holst - Phantasy Quartet
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Intermission
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Leo Ornstein - Piano Quintet
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Artists:
Matti Koponen, violin
Essi Höglund, violin
Mari Viluksela, viola
Annika Valkeajoki, cello
Helka Seppälä, double bass
Janne Valkeajoki, accordion
Fanny Söderström, piano
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In partnership with the Lappee Parish.
SATURDAY
AUGUST 16
STATE OF THE ART
Final concert of Vito Žuraj's composition masterclass
Old Lappeenranta City Hall, 15:00
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PROGRAM
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Teemu Heinonen - Networks (world premiere)
Kumaus Trio
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Tatu Piitulainen - Siro/Vino (world premiere)
Kumaus Trio
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Ue Hang Wong - Broken Piecing Sequence (world premiere)
Kumaus Trio
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Presented by Vito Žuraj and Kumaus Trio
SATURDAY
AUGUST 16
OSA II(PART II):
NOSFERATU X AURORA HENTUNEN
(feat. Branislav Vlaisavljevic)
Kulttuuritila Nuijamies
19:00
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The original Nosferatu silent film from 1922, accompanied by music composed and performed by Aurora Hentunen.
SUNDAY AUGUST 17
KUMAUS & FRIENDS:
ARTIST TALK WITH VITO ŽURAJ
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Old Lappeenranta City Hall
14:00, Free entry
Meet our composer-in-residence Vito Žuraj! Composer Vito Žuraj shares his news, the mood of the past festival week and opens up about composing The Tremor of Time, which will be premiered at the closing concert.
The event will be hosted by the Kumaus Festival management: Janne Valkeajoki, Lauri Pekkarinen and Helka Seppälä
SUNDAY
AUGUST 17
OSA III (PART III) (BLIND CONCERT)