Kuhmo Chamber Music

The Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival will run for the 54th time from 14 to 27 July in 2024. The theme will be Borderlands.

The idea of borders is examined from an array of different perspectives, both geographical, linguistic, cultural, social, spiritual and physical. Sebastian Fagerlund and Lotta Wennäkoski have been named as next summer’s featured composers, and Kuhmo Chamber Music will commission new works from both composers. Fagerlund will compose a quintet for guitar and string quartet, while Wennäkoski will compose a violin duo. The number of concerts will be around 60, 4–5 per day. Among the pieces will be traditional chamber works, but also surprises, novelties and exotic experiences.

In addition to the main concerts there will be children’s concerts, student concerts, talks on the programmes for the day, instrument demonstrations, meetings with artists and composers, art exhibitions workshops and unexpected musical moments in the surrounding nature. Together these side events will amount to some 30 events.

Around 100 international artists will come and perform in Kuhmo. Among them will be pianists Nino Gvetadze, Natacha Kudritskaya and Heini Kärkkäinen, violinists Daniel Rowland and Elina Vähälä and cellists Maja Bogdanović and David Cohen. Ensembles will include the Castalian, Danel and Quiroga string quartets and the Storioni and Swiss piano trios.