Helsinki Chamber Choir and Ensemble Recherche: INNEN

Event Introduction

Helsinki Chamber Choir was to have given the world premiere of a new work, INNEN, by Vito Žuraj in September  2020, but the pandemic changed the plans. It is now to be heard for the first time, nearly five years later. To a libretto commissioned from Händl Klaus, the work examines the unfiltered creativity of a disabled person with reference to Monet the painter and his gradual loss of sight. The first joint concert by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and the Freiburg-based Ensemble Recherche will also feature a virtuoso solo work for female voice and instrumental ensemble by Sweden’s Malin Bång and works by Lotta Wennäkoski, Perttu Haapanen and Franck Bedrossian.

A  panel discussion, Unfiltered Creativity, will be held before the concert in the lower Helsinki Music Centre foyer. Admission to this is free, also without a concert ticket. Taking part in the discussion will be visual artists Maarit Hedman and Riina Noro, and the moderator will be project leader and dancer Maija Karhunen. In collaboration with Autism Foundation Finland and the Making Space for Artistry project.

Duration of the concert is approx. 1,5 h including intermission. Ticket sales to the concert begin soon, tbc.

Programme:

Lotta Wennäkoski (*1970): Valossa (2014, for mixed choir)
Malin Bång (*1974): faces and moon splinters (2005; for female voice, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello)
Perttu Haapanen (*1972): Strophes II (2007/2009, for mixed choir)
Franck Bedrossian (*1971): We met as sparks (2015; for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, viola, and cello) – Ensemble Recherche
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Vito Žuraj (*1979): INNEN (for mixed choir and ensemble), world premiere

Performers:

Helsinki Chamber Choir
Ensemble Recherche (GER)
Nils Schweckendiek, conductor

In co-operation with and supported by:

helsinginkamarikuoro.fi
www.ensemble-recherche.de

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