Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, West Helsinki Music Institute & East-Helsinki Music Institute

The Helsinki Chamber Orchestra joins forces with the West Helsinki Music Institute and East Helsinki Music Institute for a large scale program featuring British and American masterpieces, with oboe soloist Julia Jurkiewicz. The concert carefully weaves together chamber orchestra pieces which greatly benefits from a large ensemble: it consists of Jean Sibelius' Impromptu, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (which notably requires the orchestra to be split in 3 ensembles positioned at different places of the hall, including behind the audience), Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto, and finally, Copland’s Appalachian Spring.

Involving the Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, 38 students of these two music schools as well as their teachers, this concert aims to provide the opportunity to young musicians to play with a professional orchestra and learn from the experience of their players. Seated alongside a full-time orchestra player or one of their teachers, the students will be immersed in the standard working process of the music industry, culminating in a final concert at Temppeliaukio Church on 16.2.2022, conducted by the orchestra’s principal conductor James Kahane. Ahead of the traditional rehearsal period, they will be intensely prepared in advance by their respective pedagogical team and the principal players of the orchestra.