Since graduating from the Sibelius Academy in 2020, George Parris has remained a semi-permanent resident of Helsinki where he works as a freelance choral conductor, singer, and artistic director. In the UK he has promoted the performance of choral music from the Nordic region, giving talks and through performances with his own group, The Carice […]

Jaakko Nousiainen has been with the Finnish Institute in London for six years and took over as Director in 2021. He will talk to us about the Institute’s recent and forthcoming projects. Booking to attend this event has already closed

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. In 2017 he gave a lecture in Cambridge at “Imagine 2027” a series of 15 public talks on different aspects of inequality and strategies to create a more equal society within 10 years. There he met one of the volunteers, Annika […]

Wood: the Material of the Future – a Zoom talk by Tapani Pahkasalo of Dasos Capital

Special General Meeting to be held on Zoom to consider proposed changes to the Society’s Rules

Physical events cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. We hope to arrange meetings by Zoom in the coming months.

Annual General Meeting

Edward Clark, President of the UK Sibelius Society will give a talk addressing the question whether Sibelius was a Nationalist or a European composer.

The Enduring Tradition of Wooden Architecture in Finland

Talk by Dr Caroline Boggis-Rolfe on “Finland: its Shared Baltic History”