LuostoClassic 9th to 12th August 2012 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra The main guest orchestra in LuostoClassic festival 2012 will be one of the best and most known orchestra in Britain an in Europe, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra will have concerts outdoors in fell nature. Orchestras’s home base is in Manchester and it visits Finland first time. Colin Currie, Dave Maric, John Storgårds, Kalevi Aho Orchestra will play in the main concert, where it performs the new percussion concerto composed by Kalevi Aho and also Aho’s LuostoSymphony with the Lapland Chamber orchestra. Concert is conducted by John Storgårds. The percussion soloist is world famous British percussion specialist Colin Currie. Colin Currie is soloist also in Lapland Chamber orchestra’s concert that premieres British composer Dave Maric’s percussion concerto. In this year’s Luosto Classic –festival the numerous audience was very satisfied and gave exceptional positive feedback. The theme of the festival was piano and there were seven prominent Finnish pianists from younger generation. Visiting orchestra was The Guardian Band from Helsinki. In the main concert in Ukko-Luosto outdoor concert hall was the premiere of Uuno Klami’s Kalevala-serie arranged to six grand pianos and percussions by composer Jukka Nykänen. In the performance the six grand pianos surrounded tha audience in fell nature.LuostoClassic festival This classical music event breaks all boundaries in bringing the finest artistic experiences to the fells of Finnish Lapland. The heavens alone provide the roof and great old pine trees form the walls of Ukko-Luosto concert hall, which seats 2,000 with plenty of space besides for those who would simply lie in the heather. Other concert places are as extraordinary. Aittakuru is a deep ravine formed by an ancient glacial river. The stage is on the bottom near a small pond. The audience sits tens of meters above. Ahvenlampi is a scenic lake whose glimmering surface offers the acoustics and whose high banks are ecellent for the audience. 10th Anniversary in 2012 the LuostoClassic festival is organised the 10th time. The history of the festival started in 2003 by the premiere of the Luosto Symphony. The whole Pyhä-Luosto area is tuned to special atmosphere of LuostoClassic. In the Festival clubs the top artists mingle with audience and improvise on stage. |