Jazz Finland Live

Pekka Toivonen Ensemble's next studio album Pacemaker is released 9.11. @ Kalliosali, Helsinki, starting @ 19:00. Free entry! The event is part of Pekka Toivonen Piano Week 2022.

Pekka Toivonen, compositions, piano, glockenspiel
Okko Saastamoinen, drums
Eero Tikkanen, double bass
Johannes Sarjasto, alto saxophone, recorder
Saku Mattila, oboe
Miia Reko, trumpet, flugelhorn
Tatu Ahola, cello

Vocal chameleon and composer Theo Bleckmann has successfully balanced styles from classical to jazz, inventing his own distinct voice along the way. Bleckmann will be the soloist in concerts with the Oulu Symphony Orchestra and the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra in November both in Oulu and Helsinki. Conductor for this special ensemble is Ed Partyka, the chief conductor and artistic director of UMO.

The concerts feature jazz standards and beloved pop and musical classics with strings from Frank Sinatra to Glenn Miller and Cole Porter and from Kate Bush to the Bee Gees. One of the most celebrated composers and arrangers of the moment, Grammy nominee Miho Hazama, is writing re-orchestrations for these special concerts.

Ed Partyka conductor

Theo Bleckmann vocals

Oulu Symphony Orchestra 

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra

Duration 2 hours with intermission.

Open event