| Thursday 16 July 2026 | 18:00 |
| Heini Kärkkäinen | Piano |
| Kasmir Uusitupa | Violin |
| Johannes Meissl | Violin |
| Jason Fisher | Viola |
| Maja Bogdanović | Cello |
| Niamh McKenna | Flute |
| Sergey Malov | Violin |
| Petteri Pitko | Harpsichord |
| Jani Pensola | Bass |
| Zoran Marković | Double Bass |
| Niko Kumpuvaara | Accordion |
| Anna Laakso | Keyboard |
| Maia Cabeza | Violin |
| Ilkka Puputti | French horn |
| David Cohen | Cello |
| Irina Zahharenkova | Piano |
| Karelia String Quartet | |
| Katja Küttner | Actor |
Rituals II is a concert programme curated by translator-couple Ville Keynäs and Anu Partanen. The poems and extracts were written by Eduardo Galeano, Merja Virolainen, Ilpo Tiihonen, Zoé Valdés, Väinö Linna, Hannu Marttila, Eeva Kilpi, Tove Jansson and Maylis de Kerangal, and they will be recited by the actress Katja Küttner (in Finnish).
“Unlike physical growth, the social life cycle of a human being progresses in leaps. These ‘leaps’ have traditionally taken the form of rites prescribed by the community, through which an individual passes from one status to another. Through these rites, a person has been thought to become, first of all, a human being as such (baptism), then an adult (a rite of passage), a spouse (marriage), a professional (graduation), a parent (the birth of a child), a pensioner (retirement), and finally the deceased (funeral rites). The concert consists of excerpts from literary works describing moments of transition, interwoven with musical works.”
Ville Keynäs and Anu Partanen
Tickets: €33/25
