Traveler includes a selection of traditional and new wind music of different genres. Soprano Mari Palo and the trumpeter Jermu Nyberg will shine as the concert’s soloists.

This will be the farewell concert of the Defence Forces Chief Conductor Jyrki Koskinen. The audience will be walked through the different stages of the Chief Conductor’s career. Koskinen, who started his music studies with the piano, changed over to the trumpet, which lead him to the path of becoming a military musician and, a bit later, to pursue conductor studies. Several service assignments at different locations have included development of procedures and training as well as production of music ranging from arrangements to compositions. The programme of this concert also gives an idea of how versatile his career as a military band conductor has been: compositions important to Koskinen will be performed ranging from symphonic wind music to entertainment music.

AAVA-saxophone quartet
József Hárs, conductor

The concert will be celebrating Uuno Klami´s 120th anniversary. Ticket sales will start in May.

Matts Remell, euphonium
Pasi-Heikki Mikkola, conducter

The Guards Band of the Finnish Defence Forces with soprano Karita Mattila performs traditional christmas music by Sibelius, Bach and Rimsky-Korsakov among others.