Programme
Below you can find the program for Our Festival 2021. The program for Our Festival 24–30.7.2022 will be published here in spring 2022.
Meidän Festivaali
Our Festival
Järvenpää / Tuusula
25.-31.7.2021
Artistic Director
Kamus
TUUSULANJÄRVI / LAKE TUUSULA / TUSBY TRÄSK
Welcome to the 25th Our Festival!
For a quarter of a centennial Our Festival has fed those hungry for art every single summer. Starting its journey with the gentle care of Olli-Pekka Karppinen, further refined by Jaakko and Pekka Kuusisto and prior to us diversified by Pekka, Our Festival will this year take the Lake Tuusula to center stage. This quiet, subtle magnet has with it’s pull attracted, assembled and glued together one of the most significant artistic communities through time and place. Our Festival aims for it’s part to treasure the spirit of this artistic community by being open-minded, modern, working in unison and cultivating different arts and furthermore lately we have asked ourselves
How have we succeeded in cherishing Lake Tuusula?
Seas, lakes, rivers and water have been hugely inspirational elements for us while we have drawn out this summer’s festival. Join us in celebrating Lake Tuusula, the artistic community that came to be around it, and all those good things Our Festival has accomplished thus far!
Kamus: Terhi Paldanius, Jukka Untamala, Jussi Tuhkanen and Petja Kainulainen
SATURDAY 24 JULY
Saturday 24 July, 12-4pm, Järvenpää / Tuusula
Our Tour
As a Festival head start Kamus Quartet will transform to two duos and swoop around Tuusula and Järvenpää to make some noise behind windows and below balconies in six different elderly homes. Our Tour will stop at Jampankaari and Kivipuisto in Järvenpää and Martta Augusta -home, Riihikallio, Ester Matilda -home and Kustaa Aadolf -home in Tuusula. The exact tour schedule will be revealed closer to the date.
The tours are made possible by OP Uusimaa.
In co-operation with Tuusula municipality’s cultural work with the elderly.
Free admission. The audience is advised to keep social distance.
Outdoor experience. Weather conditions permitting.
SUNDAY 25 JULY
Sunday 25 July, 3pm at Järvenpää Art Museum
From opposing shores
Arturo Márquez: Días de Mar y Río
Matleena Nyman, piano
Reena Esmail: When the violin
Jukka Untamala, violin
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Preludeja
Ismo Eskelinen, guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Kitarakvintetto op. 143
Ismo Eskelinen, guitar
Kamus
Tickets 28 / 24 / 16 € from Our Store >>
Sunday 25 July, 6:30pm, 7:30pm & 9pm at Halosenniemi
Lights and shadows I-III
Small audience groups are guided – not by hand, but from a safe distance – to three different experiences in and around Halosenniemi.
Solo
Glenn Kotche
Pēteris Vasks: Bass Trip
Olivier Thiery, double bass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in D major K.593
Kamus
Lilli Maijala, viola
Tickets 49 / 44 / 30 € from Our Store >>
Partially outdoor experience – there’s no bad weather, only bad cleather. We kindly ask you to dress weather appropriate. There will be short distances walked on pathways, kindly take this in to account when choosing your footwear.
Please arrive to Halosenniemi 10 minutes prior to the concert latest.
NB: There’s been a change to the initial program of this concert. Dark with Excessive Bright by Missy Mazzoli will be performed at Our Festival 2023, and Bass Trip by Pēteris Vasks will be heard in this program in it’s place.
MONDAY 26 JULY
Monday 26 July, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm & 5pm at Ainola
Happy birthday, Aino! I-IV
Small audience groups are guided – not by hand, but from a safe distance – to three different experiences in and around Ainola.
Jean Sibelius (arr. Luukas Hiltunen): Scene d’amour
Kamus
Happy birthday, Aino! [in Finnish]
Hanna-Reetta Schreck, art historian
Glenn Kotche & Darin Gray (On Fillmore): Taisho
Glenn Kotche, percussions
Darin Gray, double bass
Rebecca Clarke: Viola sonata
Lilli Maijala, viola
Matleena Nyman, piano
Tickets 57 / 52 / 38 € from Our Store >>
The ticket includes coffee / tea and Janne-cake at Cafe Aulis at the very beginning of the concert. The cake has chokolate-peanutbrownie, chocolate mousse, raspberry mousse and fudge, and is gluten- and lactose free.
Partially outdoor experience – there’s no bad weather, only bad cleather. We kindly ask you to dress weather appropriate. There will be short distances walked on pathways, kindly take this in to account when choosing your footwear.
Please arrive to Ainola 10 minutes prior to the concert latest.
Monday 26 July, 3pm at Järvenpää Art Museum
Comfortably I
Claude Debussy (arr. Sally Beamish): La Mer
Trio Est
Tickets 15 € from Our Store >>
Comfortably-concerts are short concerts where we encourage you to make yourself comfortable. They’re designed especially for those audiences that might find it hard to concentrate to a full lenght concert. You can move, stand, sit, lie down, and even make some noise (how anarchist!). The lights will stay on.
Monday 26 July, 8pm at Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora hall
Finally
Glenn Kotche: Ping Pong Fumble Thaw
Kamus
Glenn Kotche: Anomaly
Glenn Kotche, drums
Kamus
Immediate Music 3
Tony Buck, percussions
Glenn Kotche, percussions
Olavi Louhivuori, percussions
TUEDSAY 27 JULY
Tuesday 27 July, 4pm, Järvenpää Church
Happy Birthday, Joonas!
Three variations from a theme by Beethoven:
Joonas Kuikka: A variation from a theme by Beethoven: ”Metamorphosis”
Ismo Eskelinen, guitar
Matleena Nyman, piano
Kamus
Rolf Gustavson: A variation from a theme by Beethoven
Ismo Eskelinen, guitar
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Petja Kainulainen, cello
Aino Tenkanen: A variation from a theme by Beethoven
Terhi Paldanius, beredd violin
Petja Kainulainen, beredd cello
Matleena Nyman, beredd piano
Joonas Kokkonen: Celebration bells
Järvenpää Church bells
Joonas Kokkonen: String Quartet no. 3
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart): Fuga in E Major BWV878
Kamus
YLE broadcasts this concert.
Tickets 32 / 27 / 16 € from Our Store >>
Tuesday 27 July, 8pm, Krapin Paja
Imaginarily
Lauri Porra: Only Lovers Left Alive
Petja Kainulainen, cello
Liina-Mari Raivola, cello
Lauri Porra, electronics
Lyyti
Tickets 32 / 27 / 16 € from Our Store >>
WEDNESDAY 28 JULY
Wednesday 28 July, 12am & 2pm, Järvenpää House
Mimmit: Musapatti I-II
Tickets 20 / 17 / 10 € from Our Store >>
Family ticket 50 € from Our Store >>
Family ticket entails five seats (e.g. 2 guardians and 3 children).
Infants who don’t need a seat (who can be seated on their guardians lap) are admitted with their guardians ticket.
Wednesday 28 July, 8pm, Tuusula Church
The Submerged Cathedral
Claude Debussy: The Submerged Cathedral
Matleena Nyman, piano
Lake Tuusula 2100 [in Finnish]
Kerttu Kotakorpi, meteorologist and author
Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet
Fanny Söderström, piano
Abel Puustinen, violin
Lilli Maijala, viola
Anna Westerlund, cello
Olivier Thiery, double bass
Tickets 28 / 24 / 16 € from Our Store >>
THURSDAY 29 JULY
Thursday 29 July, 12am-1pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Get to know new things I
Open rehearsal of the new work:
Lauri Supponen & Riikka Talvitie: Aaltoliike
Kamus
Free admission. The audience is advised to keep social distance.
Thursday 29 July, 3pm & 5pm, Suviranta
I-II
Nicholas Walker: Four duos
Lilli Maijala, viola
Olivier Thiery, double bass
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in f minor op. 95
Kamus
Cecilia Damström: Sydänlaulu op. 32 for viola
Lilli Maijala, viola
Jaakko Kuusisto: Miniö
Jukka Untamala, violin
Olivier Thiery, double bass
Tickets 38 / 33 / 25 € from Our Store >>
FRIDAY 30 JULY
Friday 30 July, 12am-1pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Get to know new things II
Open rehearsal of the new work:
Tytti Arola: A new work for Lake Tuusula and string quartet
Kamus
Free admission. The audience is advised to keep social distance.
Friday 30 July, 3pm-3.30pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Comfortably II
Clara Schumann: Piano trio in g minor op.17
Trio Est
Tickets 15 € from Our Store >>
Comfortably-concerts are short concerts where we encourage you to make yourself comfortable. They’re designed especially for those audiences that might find it hard to concentrate to a full lenght concert. You can move, stand, sit, lie down, and even make some noise (how anarchist!). The lights will stay on.
Friday 30 July, 6pm, Kallio-kuninkala Cafe terrace
Get to know new things III
Composers Riikka Talvitie and Lauri Supponen discuss with researcher Juha Torvinen on how their new work came to be. In Finnish.
Free admission. The audience is advised to keep social distance.
Friday 30 July, 7.30pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Baltic Sea
Lars Petter Hagen: Hymn
Helka Seppälä, double bass
Lauri Supponen & Riikka Talvitie: Wave motion – angles to nature
Kamus
Clara Schumann: Piano trio in g minor op 17
Trio Est
Tickets 26 / 23 / 16 € from Our Store >>
SATURDAY 31 JULY
NB: The performance of DAWNS has been moved to Our Festival 2022 due to force majeure.
Saturday 31 July, 8:30am, Vanhankylänniemi, Järvenpää
DAWNS
DAWNS by dance and music artist Elina Pirinen and Kamus is a sandy, shy, brutal, soaked, romantic, dirty and ghosty world. With a unique combination they paint a freely associating corporeal-musical nature to the shore of Lake Tuusula, which will move out peculiar dances and Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge like a messy ocean. New routes in the brain will be formed, new memories will be born, and the rays of morning light will tattoo skin with drawings of hope.
DAWNS
choreography by Elina Pirinen
music by Ludwig van Beethoven: Grosse Fuge
Elina Pirinen
Kamus
Saturday 31 July, 4pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Aeneas, Migration and Europe
A Theatrical Work In Progress
Our Festival history is filled with musical encounters in working residencies, and this year we’re delighted to expand the format to theatre via an open call. Together with the fantastic Globe Art Point, we chose an international group formed by the stellar UK-based arts production house Dash Arts for a week-long residency where they’re going to be working on an immersive theatre production – a contemporary reimagining of Virgil’s Aeneid, exploring this timeless tale of migration through the lens of Europe today. Their work-in-progress will be revealed on the closing day of the Festival.
Globe Art Point is an association advocating for cultural equity, diversity and inclusion in the arts and cultural sector in Finland.
Josephine Burton, director
Marouf Majidi, composition
Hattie Naylor, playwright
Tuukka Leppänen, actor-musician
Laura Hanna, actor-musician
Tickets 26 / 23 / 16 € from Our Store >>
Saturday 31 July, 4pm, Kallio-kuninkala, Leonora Hall
Lake Tuusula
Nadia Boulanger: Vers la Vie Nouvelle
Matleena Nyman, piano
Claude Debussy (arr. Sally Beamish): La Mer
Trio Est
Tytti Arola: A new work for Lake Tuusula and string quartet
Kamus
Tickets 28 / 24 / 16 € from Our Store >>
Right to changes reserved.