Jazz Finland Live

The first Hietsu is Happening of the autumn season moves from Finnish and American-Finnish contemporary music to African-American avant-garde jazz.

In the first half of the concert, the solo cellist of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eeva Rysä and the percussionist Kazutaka Morita will perform together. Rysä has commissioned and premiered a lot of new Finnish music and plays solo works composed for her by Tiina Myllärinen and Minna Leinonen. Together with Morita, they perform the rarely heard Grand Union duo by Finnish-American composer Charles Wuorinen.

In the latter half, a sextet led by visiting professor of jazz music at the Sibelius Academy, drummer and composer Dana Hall will perform. The ensemble is formed by Hall, Sibelius Academy's jazz students and Hietsu is Happening's own Antti Lötjönen and Mikko Innanen. The group's repertoire consists of compositions by such great stylists of the African-American musical tradition as Billy Strayhorn, Yusef Lateef, Julius Hemphill, Anthony Braxton and Geri Allen.

Performing:
Dana Hall, drums
Vid Šketa, trumpet
Joonatan Henriksson, clarinet
Olli Virtanen, vibraphone
Mikko Innanen, saxophones
Antti Lötjönen, double bass

Eeva Rysä, cello
Kazutaka Morita, percussion

Composers: Tiina Myllärinen, Minna Leinonen, Charles Wuorinen, Billy Strayhorn,
Yusef Lateef, Julius Hemphill, Anthony Braxton, Geri Allen, Dana Hall.

The concert is realized in cooperation with Sibelius Academy.