In the summer, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will give concerts at several festivals both in Finland and abroad.
UMO has several festival visits ahead, first to the Torino Jazz Festival in Italy, as well as domestic venues at Lahti Organ Festival, Flow Festival and the renewed Huvila tent during Helsinki Festival. The series of summer gigs also includes a first visit to Allas Sea Pool's Allas Live concert series. The soloists at the concerts will be Jimi Tenor (Turin and Flow), Ringa Manner (Huvila), Erja Lyytinen (Allas Sea Pool) and Susanne Kujala (Organ Festival).
Jimi Tenor & UMO at Torino Jazz Festival Sunday 19 June
Jimi Tenor and the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will head to the Torino Jazz Festival in Italy in 19 June! Terra Exotica, composed by Jimi Tenor for UMO, is an energetic, upbeat and exotic album. It draws its inspiration from the forests and seas of Eastern Helsinki, Japanese film music, and distinctive jazz visionaries like Sun Ran and Salah Ragab. The concert is conducted by Ed Partyka.
Lahti Organ Festival: UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra & Susanne Kujala Thursday 11 August
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra gets a rare nuance from a slightly larger wind instrument, when the big band and organist Susanne Kujala join forces. The concert, which elegantly combines different musical worlds from the classical and jazz sides, will feature the premiere of Markus Fagerudd, the symphonic Duke Ellington and an organ concert by the Swedish Örjan Fahlström. The concert is conducted by Jukka Linkola.
Flow Festival: Jimi Tenor & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra Saturday 13 August
Jimi Tenor and the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will perform at Flow Festival in August! Terra Exotica, composed by Jimi Tenor for UMO, is an energetic, upbeat and exotic album. It draws its inspiration from the forests and seas of Eastern Helsinki, Japanese film music, and distinctive jazz visionaries like Sun Ran and Salah Ragab. The concert is conducted by Ed Partyka.
Allas Live: UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra Goes Blues With Erja Lyytinen Thursday 18 August
The Queen of Slide Guitar, singer-songwriter Erja Lyytinen and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra will join forces at the Allas Sea Pool in August! The concert will feature material from Lyytinen’s entire career, including her latest songs with fresh big band arrangements made by e.g. Erno Tiittanen and Antti Rissanen, who also conducts the concert.
Helsinki Festival: Ringa Manner & Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen With UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra Tuesday 30 August
What do you get when you combine an indie artist blessed with a unique voice, an orchestra leader known as the Duke Ellington of Finland and the only full-time big band in the country? It’s not a simple calculation, as any performance by Ringa Manner, Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen and the UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra is much more than the sum of its parts.
Jimi Tenor © Heikki Kynsijärvi