Sibbe Live!: Turku Ensemble 40 years
12.03.2025 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)
Turku Ensemble ry was founded in November 1984 when a group of Turku based musicians gathered and decided to start playing music regularly together. The founding idea was to increase and enrich the culture of high level chamber music in Turku. The cellist Timo Hanhinen was chosen as the first president of the new association and Tuula Sarotie, then the production secretary of Turku Music Festival, as the secretary.
A key feature of the Turku Ensemble’s activities has always been the versatile combination of different instruments and instrument groups. Collaboration with different orchestras and ensembles as well as cross-artistic projects have also been part of the Turku Ensemble’s activities.
Turku Ensemble’s ensemble of more than twenty musicians consists of teachers from the Turku Arts Academy and the Conservatory of Music, as well as musicians from the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. The ensemble has performed widely in Finland, but also in Sweden, Russia, England, the Czech Republic and the United States.
The Turku Ensemble’s regular concert venues included the Sibelius Museum and the Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum. The longest-running concert venue was the Tuesday concert series at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, until spring 2024, where the Turku Ensemble acted as the house band ensemble and performed at least a couple of times in both the autumn and spring seasons.
The association’s current chairman is Harri Sippel, a viola artist who has been in the position for several years, the same as Sirkka Koivunen, secretary and treasurer.
The Turku Ensemble welcomes all chamber music lovers to the Sibelius Museum for its 40th anniversary concert on 12 March 2025, where the programme of the debut concert of 40 years ago will be performed! Many of the Turku Ensemble’s founding members are still in the line-up.
