Mikkeli Music Festival presents Legends

Saturday August 2, 2025 at 7

Opening concert: LEGENDS

Mikaeli concert hall, Sointukatu 1, Mikkeli

Jyväskylä Sinfonia & Sinfony Orchestra Vivo

Erkki Lasonpalo, conductor

Anton Mejias, piano

PROGRAM

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird suite

Sergei Prokofjev: Piano Concerto No. 2

Uuno Klami: Kalevala suite

The Jyväskylä Sinfonia and the Vivo Symphony Orchestra will open the 2025 Mikkeli Music Festival, conducted by Erkki Lasonpalo. The program of the opening concert takes the listeners to the landscapes of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala and Stravinsky’s Firebird. Mikkeli Music Festivals 2024 Young Artist Anton Mejias will be heard as a soloist of Prokofiev piano concerto No. 2.