This year we will be holding our Annual General Meeting at the Finnish Church on Wednesday 20th April. The formal notice will be sent to members closer to the date.
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More of the Art of Translation – cancelled
The planned talk by Kersti Juva has had to be cancelled as, unfortunately, she is ill and has been advised not to travel. We wish her a full and speedy recovery
Finnish Drama and Swedish Documentaries at the Finnish Church
For this event we are joining forces with Bilingual Potential’s Nordic Festival, a series of events of interest particularly to people with a Nordic background. The first part of the programme will be a talk by Jonna Nummela about her experiences as a writer and performer moving from Finland to England and changing from writing in Finnish to English. Following Jonna’s talk, Andreas Lindström and Emilie Hill Dittmer of Nordic Folksong will introduce three short documentaries which they have made featuring Swedish artists living in London, the dancer Tommy Franzen, the cartoonist Maria Smedstad and the artist Pernilla Iggström. Nordic Folksong has partly been sponsored by the Anglo-Swedish Society. The event will be at the Finnish Church, 33 Albion Street, London SE16. Start time 7.00pm, doors open 6.30pm. Entrance free but please book here
Thomas Adès conducts the LSO
Thomas Adès will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of his own work, Asyla, together with two works which influenced him in the composition of that piece, the Violin Concerto of Sibelius (soloist Christian Tetzlaff) and Franck’s Symphony in D minor. Venue: Barbican Hall at 7.30pm
Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at Cadogan Hall
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eduardo Portal will play Glinka’s Ruslan and Lydmila Overture, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, the Sibelius violin concerto (soloist Matthew Trusler) and Beethoven’s Symphony no 7. Cadogan Hall at 7.30pm
Phantasm at Wigmore Hall
The viol consort, Phantasm, which includes two Finnish players, Mikko Perkola and Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, will perform a programme of Fantasias and In Nomines by Purcell and his contemporaries. 7.30pm
Ashkenazy conducts Rachmaninov and Sibelius
This concert in Ashkenazy’s Rachmaninov Project includes performances of The Rock and Symphony No 3 and also the Sibelius Violin Concerto played by Esther Yoo. Venue: Royal Festival Hall at 7.30pm
Osmo Vänskä conducts the LPO
The programme for the second concert to be given by Osmo Vänskä and the LPO is Otto Nicolai’s overture for The Merry Wives of Windsor, Korngold’s Violin Concerto (played by Hyeoon Park) and Elgar’s Symphony No 1. There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.00pm when the Royal Librarian, Oliver Urquhart Irvine, will talk about Shakespeare in the Royal Collections at Windsor and Professor Sonia Massai of King’s College London will talk about global adaptations of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Venue: Royal Festival Hall at 7.30pm
Osmo Vänskä conducts the LPO
In the first part of the programme, Stephen Hough will perform Dvorak’s Piano Concerto in G minor. In the second half there will be Vänskä’s own narrated arrangement of excerpts from the orchestral suites which Sibelius wrote for a performance of The Tempest given in Copenhagen in 1925. The mezzo-soprano, Lilli Paasikivi, will also perform. Venue: Royal Festival Hall at 7.30pm
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the Chied Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and in this concert he will be making his postponed debut conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The concert includes two works by Sibelius, Lemminkäinen’s Return and the Symphony No 2. There will also be a performance by Håkon Hardenberger of Martinsson’s Trumpet Concero No 1, Bridge. Venue: Royal Festival Hall at 7.30pm