Choral Espoo: Ikikaiku (The Everlasting Echo) – all things pass

The Polytech Choir performs in the opening concert of the Choral Espoo festival with own a cappella reportoire and together with the EMO Ensemble and The Tapiola Choir.

EMO Ensemble, cond. Pasi Hyökki
Einojuhani Rautavaara

The Polytech Choir, cond. Juha Kuivanen
Sibelius – Kuula

The Tapiola Choir, cond. Kari Ala-Pöllänen
Kurt Bikkembergs – Olli Kortekangas – Seppo Pohjola

SIGYN Baroque Trumpet Ensemble
Juhani Listo, Johanna Laakso, Arja Ollila, Miikka Saarinen, baroque trumpet
Tuija-Maija Nurminen, timpani
Girolamo Fantini – André Dani Philidor – Ferdinand Donninger

Massed choirs:
Olli Kortekangas: Ikikaiku – The Everlasting Echo (adapted by the composer for Choral Espoo)
Anna-Mari Kähärä: all things pass (Commissioned by Choral Espoo, first performance)
Choreography: Päivi Järvinen

Three first-rate choirs will take the stage at the Festival’s opening concert. A joyous evening of singing together and separately is promised. The massed choirs of 150 voices will ring out in the first performance of Anna-Mari Kähärä’s all things pass, specially commissioned for Choral Espoo, and Olli Kortekangas’s work Ikikaiku (The Everlasting Echo), which has been adapted for this performance. The tremendous fanfares of the SIGYN Baroque Trumpet Ensemble will bind the programme together like a pearl necklace.