TAMPERE CHAMBER MUSIC 23.-26.1.2025

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​YTIMESSÄ - IN THE CORE
 

I have recently been thinking a lot about the diverse nature around us. It is incomprehensible and wonderful how everything has its own space and role, creating a purposeful ecosystem. Enabling living conditions for different species is our responsibility on Earth. While humans can accomplish incredible things, we can also lose wisdom. We face more choices than ever before, and finding the core in life requires courage and prioritization to grasp larger entities. Our time is distracting concentration, and asks for character strength to change things. Often life’s adversities or the compulsion to stop drive to listen to oneself. However, wisdom and simplicity reside there.

Nature is wise. Respecting diversity in nature as well as in the case of an individual human is wealth. I am deeply interested in stones, their silent but powerful energy, different shapes, surfaces and colors. Creativity has a lot in common, it often starts from silence with power, flies in colors into the air in numerous and different forms breathing freely.

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The IN THE CORE theme delves into concerts, research and lectures into the core of music and well-being. The creators of chamber music’s timeless and central work, Brahms and Beethoven are at the center. Musicians love Brahms. It has beauty, passion, timelessness and sensitivity. Playing it together with breathing and special colleagues is fulfillment. Beethoven’s anniversary year was somewhat overshadowed by the pandemic, and now we can continue the celebration, which is not tied to any specific year. Musical moment in the middle of cafe treats are available in downtown Tampere.

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Music is a choice in human life. It has a great impact on well-being, and its timeless power goes in depth direction. All music is timeless to me, because the ever-deepening genius of art at its best enables a bottomless and renewed experience over and over again. Creativity and the spirit of music is ever maturing, condensing and reactive. Music and nature offer us a connection and the opportunity to experience something greater than oneself.

Being in the core obliges everyone to contribute to the preservation and well-being of the Earth. The festival will support the protection of diverse nature.

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At the festival, the effects of different sound vibrations on humans, both players and listeners, are studied and measured in collaboration with the University of Tampere. The natural use of gravity in playing is a central issue for a nuanced sound palette and the prevention of strain injuries. These topics will be explored in a workshop studying the cooperation between the core and movement, the support point and relaxation.

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The entire festival started with the idea of the role of breathing, movement and energy in understanding music and the well-being of a musician. Dance has been involved every year and this year we all get to dance ourselves. A dance party is held at the Tuulensuu Palace to the rhythm of old jazz. You can dress up there and lindy hop dance is available, for example. In the beginning we can hear the most wonderful Kreisler violin and piano duos.

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The performers of 2025 form a core where colorful and deep sound, warmth, emotions, sensitivity, calmness and passion combine. The musical family is together again. Violinists Elina Vähälä and Réka Szilvay, cellist Robert Cohen, violist Yuval Gotlibovich, pianist Natacha Kudritskaya, pianist and artistic director Heini Kärkkäinen, dancer Pontus Aleksander Sundset and saxophonist Jukka Perko & group are coming to perform at the festival.

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You are warmly welcome!

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Heini Kärkkäinen

artistic director