Porvoo Jazz x Avanti: Friction!
This year, the Porvoo Jazz Festival will join forces with the Avanti! chamber orchestra and Suvisoito for the second time. In June, Suvisoito hosted a concert with the Porvoo Jazz Club on Saturday night of the festival, with Mika Kallio Gong Odyssey. Now Avanti! will return to the Porvoo Jazz Festival with a programme of scored contemporary music that at times comes very close to the aesthetics of free improvised jazz.
In Saturday’s concert, saxophonist Jaime Estevéz will be able to “jungle-climb” with his instrument in different sound and emotional worlds. In addition to two impressive solo numbers, Edison Denisov’s Saxophone Sonata will be played as a classic work, and the recent duo piece Impetus by the Slovenian Nina Šenk. Agata Zubel’s brass trio Friction concludes the concert, communicating in a humorous way with Michael Maierhof’s Shopping 4. The instrumentation of Maierhof’s piece: three balloons! The music will be enjoyed in the midst of the wonderful art exhibition in the Kunsthalle.
5.9.-12.10 Porvoo Art Hall exhibitions
Taidehall Fikka: Roberto Fusco & Emma Fält
Taidehall Kulma: Dora Dalila Cheffi
Porvoo Taidehalli: Taru Happonen
Programme:
Thierry Alla: Digital (6′)
Edison Denisov: Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (12′)
Michael Maierhof: Shopping 4 (13′)
Christian Lauba: Jungle (3´)
Nina Šenk: Impetus (12´)
Agata Zubel: Friction (12´)
Tickets 17/14/10€, Early bird tickets -5€ from the normal adult price with code EARLY BIRD