Kokonainen festival 10-13 August 2023, Janakkala
KOKONAINEN / MUSEQUAL
Musequal festival 10th-13th of August 2023
JANAKKALA AND HÄMEENLINNAN ART MUSEUM
"Here you will experience a thousand atmospheres and six entities, where you dive into wonderlands, peek into rabbit holes. Being curious, we immerse ourselves in all the new and old works of female composers, bringing together something traditional and something of our own. There will be plenty of musicians working and performing for the whole week when artists from all over Europe make their way to green Häme." says the artistic director, a violinist who grew up in Janakkala, Linda Suolahti. She has invited three artistic implementers to plan one event each for the festival.
Opening concert 10.8. is curated by an Emma award candidate Laura Hynninen, whose world combines visual art and the music she composed herself. The debut album Otilia was awarded Yle broadcast company's album of the year 2022.
Composer Rouzbeh Rafien planned the evening experience of 11.8. where we will hear e.g. his latest work for string trio and electronics. Rouzbeh visited Janakkala for the first time in 2022 and won the hearts of the audience with his music.
Linda Suolahti's vivacious musicianship and open-minded event curating are already well known in Finland. The possibilities of a wonderland have inspired Linda to also jump into the shoes of a composer; her first composition "Wonderland" to the poems of Anja Vammelvuo will have its premiere as part of an exciting program on August 12. The young Ukrainian artist Ksenia Pavlola's photo exhibition can be seen at Tervakoski's Seuratalo throughout the festival.
Beloved actor Seela Sella makes a return to the festival and bandoneon artist Kristina Kuusisto makes her Kokonainen debut, when the top soprano from Janakkala Pia Freund takes her vision of a rabbit whole to the Hämeenlinna Art Museum on August 13.
Ticket sales for the festival is open in our Holvi online store.
Tickets 25/20€, 20/15€ and €15/€10.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to support Ukraine.
10.-13.8.
KSENIIA PAVLOVA'S
PHOTO EXHIBITION
TERVAKOSKI SEURATALO
Kseniia Pavlova's photo exhibition from Ukraine 10.-13.8.
Thursday 10.8. at 1 p.m Opening of the exhibition
Helvi Leiviskä (1902-82): Sonata for violin and piano (1945)
Tiina Karakorpi, piano, Linda Suolahti, violin
There is a voluntary entrance fee for the opening and the exhibition in favor of Ukraine. We donate the entrance fees in full to the Ukrainians in Finland association (Link)
The musical performance lasts approx. 25 min.
Other days the exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and in connection with the concerts.
10.8.
LAURA
LEPPÄKOSKEN VOIMAN TALO
Thursday 10th of August, 6pm
Laura Hynninen, artist
The concert at House of Voima (Power) is a dive into the world that consists of my music and visual works. I will perform songs from the Otilia album as well as my new works. I have been looking for different sounds from the harp; I like mysterious tones and percussive themes. They act as a contrast to the pearly arpeggio sound of the harp, as additional spices I play the kalimba and sandpaper. From these ingredients, live electronics and my own voice, my one-woman orchestra is born.
The event is around 75 minutes long.
11.8.
ROUZBEH
GNOMIC
TERVAKOSKI SEURATALO
Friday 11.8. at 6 p.m
Linda Suolahti and Viivi Hakkarainen, violin
Mari Viluksela, viola
Anni Kallioniemi, cello
Fanny Söderström, piano
Prelude
Rouzbeh Rafie (1981-): String Trio (2023, premiere)
Cecilia Damström (1988-): Characters (2015)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonata for violin and piano (1917)
György Kurtág (1926-): Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op.28 (1988-1989)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979): Three pieces for cello and piano (1914)
Kaija Saariaho (1952-): Tocar for violin and piano (2010)
Domenico Turi : Elegy for solo viola (2021)
Postlude
Duration of the event approx. 80 min
TICKETS 15/10€
12.8.
LINDA
In my own wonderland I want to invite you inside the mind. Music occasionally uplifts us somewhere beyond the reach of thoughts and on the other hand supports our varying feelings. Disintegration of the mind, expanded, immersively powerful emotions and the extremity of thoughts are the themes I want to bring out in my creation. My wonderland is dark and narrow like a real rabbit hole, on its doorway allowing one to experience the light, freedom and space. War and death have been and will always be uncontrollably present in our daily lives, past and future. Refuge must be sought from within, perhaps this rabbit hole is my refuge. Welcome to climb on the hill with me.
PART I
KSENIIA
TERVAKOSKI SEURATALO
Kseniia Pavlova's photo exhibition from Ukraine 10.-13.8.
(see the information above on this page)
PART II
FRANZ
JANAKKALA CHURCH OF ST.LAWRENCE
Saturday 12.8. at 1 p.m
F.Schubert: String Quintet in C major, Op. 163
Linda Suolahti and Viivi Hakkarainen, violin, Mari Viluksela, viola, Beata Antikainen and Anni Kallioniemi, cello
Event duration approx. 60 min.
PART III
LINDA
TERVAKOSKI SEURATALO
Saturday 12.8. at 6 p.m
Alla Pavlova (1953-): Elegy for piano and strings (1998)
Andrea Tarrodi (1981-): Nocturne over B, A, C and H (2011)
Linda Suolahti (1989-): "Wonderland" A new piece for solo violin and voice to Anja Vammelvuo's poems
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Jadwiga Sarnecka (1883-1913): Etude "Quasi una dolore", F minor
Caroline Shaw (1982-): Entr'acte (2011)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): Notturno Op.6 no 2 (1836)
Hawa Diabaté (1974-): Tegere Tulon (2018)
I Funtukuru
Fanny Söderström, piano, Linda Suolahti and Viivi Hakkarainen, violin, Mari Viluksela, viola, Beata Antikainen, cello
Event duration approx. 2 hours including interval
13.8.
PIA
THOUGHTS ABOUT LOVE
HÄMEENLINNA ART MUSEUM
(festival's visiting concert)
Sunday 13th of August, 3pm
Seela Sella, love poems
Pia Freund, love songs
Kristina Kuusisto, love music on bandoneon
The playful name of our event is RABBIT HOLE.
Of course, the rabbit hole can hold anything in it in 'Alice in Wonderland' style, but we want to focus on Love!
We want to offer you warmth, gentleness, humor, deep emotions...and bubbly!
We will for sure hear the composers Gabriel Fauré, Astor Piazzolla, Matthew Whittall... and maybe some great composer from Hämeenlinna will stop by...!
The event in co-operation with Hämeenlinna Art Museum.
The event is around 75 minutes long.
