Symphony concert

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL EXPRESS
Helsinki – Sibelius Hall – Helsinki

Easy, fast and inexpensive, the Sibelius Festival Express takes you direct to the Sibelius Hall. Departure from Helsinki, front of Kiasma, and return from Lahti, in front of the Sibelius Hall.

SIBELIUS-FESTIVAALI 2026

OPENING CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Inmo Yang, violin

Richard Strauss: Don Juan (1888)
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto (1905)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 (1902)

5.30 Pre-concert Talk / Carpenter´s Hall
Music journalist Jaani Länsiö interviews Hannu Lintu (in Finnish)

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL EXPRESS
Helsinki – Sibelius Hall – Helsinki

Easy, fast and inexpensive, the Sibelius Festival Express takes you direct to the Sibelius Hall. Departure from Helsinki, front of Kiasma, and return from Lahti, in front of the Sibelius Hall.

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

SYMPHONY CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
YL Male Voice Choir

Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste (1904)
Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto (1903)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 (1907)
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia (1900)

5.30 pm Pre-concert Talk / Carpenter´s Hall
Journalist, writer Minna Lindgren: What did Busoni´s years in Finland mean? (in Finnish)

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL EXPRESS
Helsinki – Sibelius Hall – Helsinki

Easy, fast and inexpensive, the Sibelius Festival Express takes you direct to the Sibelius Hall. Departure from Helsinki, front of Kiasma, and return from Lahti, in front of the Sibelius Hall.

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

ILOA String Quartet

Alban Berg: String Quartet Op. 3 (1910) 
Jean Sibelius: String Quartet “Voces Intimae” (1908) 

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2026

FINAL CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Olga Heikkilä, soprano
Mihails Čulpajevs, tenor
Gabriel Kivivuori-Sereno, baritone
Dominante & Murtosointu

Jean Sibelius: Bardi (1913)
Sergei Rachmaninov: The Bells (1913)
Jean Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise (1908)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 (1911)

4 pm Pre-concert Talk / Carpenter´s Hall
Professor of Musicology (emeritus) Eero Tarasti: From Symbolism to Modernism

OPENING CONCERT: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Anton Mejias, piano

Sauli Zinovjev: Batteria (Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

CARMEN & ATTE KILPINEN – ADDITIONAL CONCERT

Rumon Gamba, conductor
Atte Kilpinen, dance and choreography

Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Georges Bizet – Rodion Štšedrin: Carmen Suite

Tickets for the additional concert will go on sale on Friday, 7 August 2026.

CARMEN & ATTE KILPINEN 

Rumon Gamba, conductor
Atte Kilpinen, dance and choreography

Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Georges Bizet – Rodion Štšedrin: Carmen Suite

HEROIC CELLO

Andrid Poca, conductor
Andreas Brantelid, cello

Sergei Prokofjev: Sinfonia Concertante
Sergei Rahmaninov: Symphony No. 2

THE MAGIC OF THE TRUMPET

Barbara Dragan, conductor
Matilda Lloyd, trumpet

Franz Liszt: Les Préludes
Alexander Arutjunjan: Trumpet Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’

ENCORE Chamber Music Concert at 20.30 Sibelius Hall

IN THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT – SYMPHONIC HALLOWEEN

Gudrun Dahlkvist, conductor

Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Antonín Dvořák: The Noonday Witch
Sergei Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Bernard Herrmann: Excerpts from the film music to ‘Psycho’
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain

SHOSTAKOVICH ENCRYPYTED

Mikael Loponen, conductor
Tami Pohjola, violin

Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2
Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9

PARISIAN DREAMS

Emilia Hoving, conductor
Javier Perianes, piano

Georges Bizet, ork. Ernest Guiraud: Carmen Suite No. 1
Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite

INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT

Jukka Untamala, conductor
Iris Candelaria, soprano

Outi Tarkiainen: Day Night Day
Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar
Jean Sibelius: Metsänhaltija
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia

JEAN SIBELIUS DAY GALA CONCERT

Jukka Untamala, conductor
Iris Candelaria, soprano

Outi Tarkiainen: Day Night Day
Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar
Jean Sibelius: Metsänhaltija
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia

MESSIAH, oratorio

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Mari Eriksmoen, soprano
Mathilda Sidén Silfver, alto
Elgan Llyr Thomas, tenor
Arttu Kataja, bass
Dominante

Georg Friedrich Händel: Messiah, oratorio

NATIONAL LANDSCAPES

Sakari Oramo, conductor
Anu Komsi, soprano
Niamh Mckenna, flute

Heidi Sundblad-Halme: Pan Suite
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 4

A CELEBRATION OF MELODY

Julie Røssland, conductor
David Munk-Nielsen, piano

Sauli Zinovjev: Recharged (Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s Composer-In-Residence)
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
Pjotr Tšaikovski: Symphony No. 4

ELECTRICITY AND HEROES

Ross Jamie Collins, conductor
Marzi Nyman, electric guitar

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Marzi Nyman: Electric Guitar Concerto
Philip Glass: Symphony No. 4

AFTER THE STORM

Malin Broman, musical direction and violin

Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, KV 216
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 2

ENCORE Chamber Music Concert at 20.30 Sibelius Hall

THE RADIANCE OF CLASSICISM

Marcus Stenz, conductor
Simone Lamsma, violin

Aram Hatšaturjan: Violin Concerto
Joseph Haydn: Symphpny No. 45 ‘Farewell’
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 102

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

James Sherlock, conductor
Seela Sella, narrator

James Sherlock: “Out of the silence” – Hommage à Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius: Tapiola
Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

EASTER CONCERT: THE ST MATTHEW PASSION

Aapo Häkkinen, conductor
Kajsa Dahlbäck, soprano
Elsa Angervo, alto
Benjamin Glaubitz, tenor
Tuomas Katajala, tenor
Veikko Vallinoja, bass
Arttu Kataja, bass
Dominante

Johann Sebastian Bach: The St Matthew Passion

PERMISSION TO PLAY

Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
Eva Trygg, flute
Kaspar-Oskar Kramp, trombone
Elmeri Uusikorpi, percussion
Sanna Palas, cello

Andrea Tarrodi: Camelopardalis
Nico Muhly: Concerto Grosso
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

THE BELLE AMONG CONCERTS

Hannu Lintu, kapellimestari
Andrea Cicalese, viulu

Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish’

THE FORCE OF DESTINY

James Hendry, conductor
Helena Juntunen, soprano

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to the opera ‘La forza del destino’
Sauli Zinovjev: Tarpeeton pyyhitään yli / Erasure (Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

THE BEST OF MOZART

Tabita Berglund, conductor
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to the opera ‘Don Giovanni’
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40

THE RITE OF SPRING

JOINT CONCERT WITH TAPIOLA SINFONIETTA

Andrew Manze, conductor

Arnold Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, symphonic poem
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

THE RITE OF SPRING

JOINT CONCERT WITH TAPIOLA SINFONIETTA

Andrew Manze, conductor

Arnold Schönberg: Pelleas und Melisande, symphonic poem
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2027

OPENING CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Sol Gabetta, cello

Jean Sibelius: Pohjola´s Daughter (1906)
Edvard Elgar: Cello Concerto (1919)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (1919)

Sibelius Festival 2027 tickets will be sale at Lippu.fi on 28 August 2026 at 12 pm. Early bird discount 10 % discount is valid 28.8.–28.9.2026.

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2027

SYMPHONY CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Lilja Haatainen, violin

Väinö Raitio: Fantasia Poetica (1923)
Jean Sibelius: Two Humoresques Op. 87 (1919)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 (1923)
Ernst Pingoud: Le Prophéte (1924)
Jean Sibelius: Four Humoresques Op. 89 (1919)
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 (1924)

Sibelius Festival 2027 tickets will be sale at Lippu.fi on 28 August 2026 at 12 pm. Early bird discount 10 % discount is valid 28.8.–28.9.2026.

SIBELIUS FESTIVAL 2027

FINAL CONCERT

Hannu Lintu, conductor
Tuuli Takala, soprano
Senja Rummukainen, cello

Jean Sibelius: Oceanides (1914)
Magnus Lindberg: Marea (1990)
Kaija Saariaho: Mirage (2007)
Jean Sibelius: Luonnotar (1913)
Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations (2019)
Jean Sibelius: Tapiola (1926)

Sibelius Festival 2027 tickets will be sale at Lippu.fi on 28 August 2026 at 12 pm. Early bird discount 10 % discount is valid 28.8.–28.9.2026.