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Welcome dear friends, the Sibelius in Korpo festival takes place this summer for the twentythird time, between 19th and 21st of July, in this beautiful sunny archipelago environment. The theme for this summer’s festival will be “Jean Sibelius and Béla Bartók. This summer in total we will have four concerts, three in the Korpo Manor and one in the Norrskata Church which is arranged in cooperation with Norrskata Kulturvänner rf.

We are happy again to be able to wish welcome to Korpo a group of internationally renowned musicians – some of them are visiting Korpo for the first time. 

 I wish all of you in the audience  enjoyable, personal experiences with the music of Jean Sibelius and Béla Bartók in the beautiful Korpo Manor, and in the Norrskata church.

Petri Kirkkomäki

Executive Director, baritone

Sibelius in Korpo festival

Greeting from the Artistic Director:

The Merry 1880s and César Franck 200

The Sibelius festival in Korpo, edition XXI, this year takes place during the week-end 15–17.7.2022. The theme will be ”The Meryy 1880s and César Franck 200”. Among other things, the concerts will include compositions by the young Sibelius, composed during his Hämeenlinna years 1881-85, and from his studying years 1885-1889, in the Helsinki Music Academy. The Festival Orchestra will be led by Petri Sakari. In the opening concert in the Korpo Church on Friday 15.7 the audience will listen to, among other things, the Presto part of the string quartet in B Major, which Sibelius was working on from the year 1889 onwards - one of Sibelius’ first orchestral pieces.

The traditional twilight concerts at The Korpo Manor will take place on Saturday 16.7 at 7pm and 9pm, performed by two string quartets – among other things the climax of Sibelius’ quartet production which started in the 1880s, ie the string quartet Votes intimate composed in 1909.

On Saturday and Sunday at 1.30 in the Municipality House of Korpo the audience can follow and enjoy an adventure opera for children, Vickan & Väinö, composed by Cecilia Damström.

 In the final concert on Sunday 17.7 we return to the atmosphere of the 1880s. Sebastian Silén will perform among other things the merry sonata part which Sibelius immediately composed upon hearing that he had become a secondary school graduate. On top of this we will also celebrate the Belgian composer César Franck, 200 years after his birth. The Italian cello virtuoso Domenico Ermirio will perform Franck’s evergreen sonata (also composed in the 1880s).

Folke Gräsbeck

Artistic Director, piano 

Sibelius in Korpo festival