UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra’s autums season has started! This season shows off a versatile and high-class jazz programme featuring free offerings, several charismatic vocalists and noted soloist and the debut concert of the new chief conductor among others.
UMO Helsinki performes in several events such as Helsinki Festival, Loviisan Wanhat Talot (Old Houses of Loviisa City) weekend, Helsinki Design Week and Merkuriuksen Karnevaalit (The Carnival of Mercury). Presto Lunch Concerts continue at Savoy Theatre and Open Rehearsals are organized this season as well. See more details on UMO Helsinki’s website.
Presto Lunch Concerts continue at Savoy Theatre!
UMO Helsinki plays Buddy Rich –
Big Swing Face
Conductor Antti Rissanen
Tue 3.9. at 12 // Savoy Theatre, Helsinki
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UMO Helsinki feat. Seppo Kantonen –
Old Wine, New Bottles
Conductor Mikko Hassinen
Tue 8.10. at 12 // Savoy Theatre, Helsinki
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Please note! The admission is free but it is recommendable to book a ticket in advance at the Savoy Theatre box office (0 €) or Lippupiste (0,5 € + commission).
Helsinki Design Week:
UMO Helsinki’s Jazztasting – Learning Climate Concert
Conductor Ville Vannemaa
Fri 6.9. at 19 // Cable Factory, Helsinki
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UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra creates a learning environment – Jazztasting – in which the audience can learn about big band music at the same time when raising awareness on nature conservation.The profits of the concert will be forwarded to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation.
Jazztasting – Learning Climate Concert is a musical journey into different flavours of jazz and big band music: you will get familiar with big band arrangement, improvisation, themes and dynamics.
Music for All Time – Three Orchestras Together
Avanti!, UMO Helsinki and FiBO & Helena Juntunen
Conductors: Kirmo Lintinen and René Bosc
Sat 14.9. at 15 // Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
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Three top orchestras in different genres, Avanti!, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO) gather together in a unique concert with soprano Helena Juntunen. Each orchestra offers the best from their core repertoire, and at the end of the concert, the versatile musicians unite their forces in the groovy and pulsating work Fearful Symmetries by John Adams, led by conductor René Bosc. The fast paced piece is the perfect pair for its tailored Buster Keaton themed video art. Adams has explained that his work mixes the bravura of a big band with the glittering sheen of techno pop and the finesse of a symphony orchestra.
HKO & UMO Helsinki & Maria Ylipää & Tero Harjunniemi: Volare
Conductor Antti Rissanen
Tue 1.10. at 19 // Musiikkitalo, Helsinki
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Post-war Finland was taken over by rhythm music and translated hits once import restrictions on recordings were abolished in the 1950s. Many of the most popular hit songs came from Italy. The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra will wrap up the audience on this autumn evening in jazz-inspired interpretations of hits, films scores and nostalgia together with the soloists Maria Ylipää and Tero Harjunniemi and conductor Antti Rissanen.
UMO Helsinki plays Stravinsky feat. Stefan Pasborg (DK)
Conductor Ville Vannemaa
Wed 16.10. at 19 // G Livelab, Helsinki
Thu 17.10. at 19 // G Livelab, Tampere
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UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra joins forces with Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg to present creative interpretations of Igor Stravinsky’s best known works The Rite of Spring and The Firebird. Written originally for a small combo, Pasborg’s reimaginations of Stravinsky’s music get fleshed out with all the texture, nuance and firepower a first class jazz orchestra can offer.
”Stefan Pasborg, the H.C. Andersen of contemporary jazz” – Jazz Journal, UK
MOTOWN – UMO Helsinki feat. Johanna Försti & David B. Whitley
Conductor Ed Partyka
Mon 4.11. at 19 // Savoy Theatre, Helsinki
Tue 5.11. at 19 // Savoy Theatre, Helsinki
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UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will continue its popular series of tribute concerts in collaboration with the Savoy Theatre Helsinki. This time the orchestra will tackle a number of 60s and early 70s classics from the catalogue of the iconic Motown Records. Expect such beloved numbers as What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye, I Want You by The Jackson 5, Stop! In the Name of Love by The Supremes and Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye, all of which will be heard in rich big band arrangements by conductor Ed Partyka. For this special night UMO Helsinki will be joined by soloists Johanna Försti and the United States -born, Germany-based David B. Whitley who is known especially for his work in musicals.
Photo: Jukka Rapo