Sibbe Live!: Vienna – Wars – Warsaw
01.10.2025 19:00 – 20:00
Standard price 15€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Students/pensioners/children 12€ + order fee (from 1,50 € + 0,65 % of the order)
Tiina Karakorpi, piano
Terhi Paldanius, violin
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, Op. 100 (1886)
Grażyna Bacewicz: Partita for Violin and Piano (1955)
Erich Korngold: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 (1913)
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969) received her first piano and violin lessons from her father before enrolling at the Warsaw Conservatory. After graduating at the age of 22, she continued her studies in Paris, where her composition teacher was Nadia Boulanger and her violin teacher was Carl Flesch. Following her studies, Bacewicz performed actively as a violinist with her pianist brother throughout Eastern Europe. She also served as concertmaster of the Warsaw Radio Orchestra, where she gained practical experience in orchestration. During the Nazi occupation in World War II, Bacewicz organized secret concerts and was involved in the resistance movement. In her music, one can hear the violence of society and the surrounding world, as well as the distress of the individual under oppressive regimes.
Violinist Carl Flesch and pianist Artur Schnabel premiered Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 6, in Berlin in October 1913. The Flesch–Schnabel duo performed the sonata frequently during their tours, but over time, Korngold’s richly colored and monumental work faded from the standard repertoire. In her thesis (2016), researcher Jennifer Martyn explores reasons why this magnificent piece—composed by a child prodigy at the age of 15—has rarely been performed since the 1920s. As a Jew, Korngold fled to the United States and began composing film music in Hollywood, which led to his earlier European works falling into obscurity. His harmonic language, based on tonality, soon came to be seen as old-fashioned, especially when compared to the works of compatriot Arnold Schoenberg. Korngold’s violin sonata is profoundly beautiful and abundant music.
In collaboration with The Finnish Soloists’ Association.
Pianist Tiina Karakorpi performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. She earned her Doctor of Music degree from the Sibelius Academy in 2016. She has furthered her studies at institutions such as the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA). She has received recognition in competitions including the Maj Lind Piano Competition (1997) and the Vanna Spadafora Competition in Italy (2006). Karakorpi performs in various chamber music ensembles, such as the KAAÅS Trio (with Annemarie Åström, violin, and Ulla Lampela, cello). The KAAÅS Trio recorded the world premiere of Helvi Leiviskä’s Piano Trio for Alba Records. Karakorpi is particularly interested in the margins of classical music and has focused on rediscovering music composed by women over the past centuries. In her artistic doctoral research, she explored the embodiment of motherhood and its relationship to artistic identity. Karakorpi serves as the artistic director of the Maryn sormenjäljillä (In Mary’s Fingerprints) concert series at the Gallen-Kallela Museum.
Terhi Paldanius began her violin studies at the age of six at a music camp in Lapinlahti. Her studies continued through the Ylä-Savo Music Institute and the Kuopio Conservatory, and later at the Sibelius Academy under the guidance of Päivyt Meller and Tero Latvala. Other important teachers and mentors have included Johannes Meissel, Hatto Beyerle, and Hugh Maguire. Paldanius is a founding member of the Kamus Quartet, with whom she has studied at institutions such as the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) and the Britten-Pears Programme in England. She has commissioned and premiered works by numerous Finnish composers, including Sebastian Fagerlund, Outi Tarkiainen, Sebastian Hilli, Riikka Talvitie, Tytti Arola, Aki Yli-Salomäki, Jouni Kaipainen, Adam Vilagi, Seppo Pohjola, Iikka Kotaja, Perttu Haapanen, Minna Leinonen, Veli-Matti Puumala, and Lotta Wennäkoski. Paldanius’s discography includes several award-winning albums, the latest being Itämerelle by the Kamus Quartet. The quartet is currently recording the complete string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. Paldanius also serves as the artistic director of Meidän Festivaali (Our Festival) together with Kamus. One of their major recent projects was The Beethoven Effect (2020–2021), in which all 17 of Beethoven’s string quartets were performed in six concerts over four days. A new artistic venture for Paldanius is the genre-crossing Battleshow, in which she performs alongside b-boy Jimi Kettunen, ballet dancer Auri Ahola, rapper Ailu Valle, and beatboxer Kevin Francett. She has collaborated with dancer-choreographer Elina Pirinen, has a new upcoming project with folk singer Amanda Kauranne, and participates in violinist-director Siljamari Heikinheimo’s concept Ruuhkavuosien kulttuurikeidas (“A Cultural Oasis in the Rush Years”).