“DEAR, IF YOU CHANGE” – English songs for lute on Sat 5th May 2018

Dear music lovers,

In May you will be able to hear for the first time at Kaskenmäki Home Concert’s stage delightful tones of the viola da gamba. The internationally successful Mikko Perkola does his magic on his viola da gamba and Annamaria Hannonen interprets the songs with her lyrically beautiful and pure voice.'

At the concert you will hear songs of English baroque composers. The beauty of the songs and the seeming simplicity and capturing patterns of them results in a soul piercing totality. The skillful improvisation by Mikko Perkola frames the songs nicely.

“DEAR, IF YOU CHANGE” – English songs for lute
Annamaria Hannonen, sopran
Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba
Friday May 4th at 7 p.m.
Saturday May 5th at 7 p.m.

Tickets: 30/20€ (Under 18)

The house will provide wine and a delicacy.

Ticket reservations: kotikonsertit@gmail.com, +358 (0) 46 548 2771 and
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With spring greetings,
Maria, Pauli & Solveig

ABOUT THE COMPOSERS:
John Dowland (1563-1626) was an English composers and lute player. The bigger part of his production is written for lute or for lute accompaniment for vocals. The themes of Dowlands songs are of the biggest – love and death. The songs seem to capture all the most humane emotions.

The songs of composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) contains strong despair and anguish. Purcell developed a distinctive that many other composers of the Baroque era took inspiration from. There will also be heard a song about despair and immortal love by Joh Blow (1659-1695) who used to be Purcell’s teacher.

At the concert you will hear songs of English baroque composers. The beauty of the songs and the seeming simplicity and capturing patterns of them resultsin a soul piercing totality. The skillful improvisation by MikkoPerkola frames the songs nicely.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

MikkoPerkola has studies music at the Päijät-Häme Conservatory, Sibelius Academy and Royal Conservatory of the Hague. ArvoHaasma, MarkkuLuolajan-Mikkola and Wieland Kuijken have been his musical supervisors.
Perkola has given concerts and recorded as a chamber musician in different parts of the world. His recordings of Bach's sonatas for viola da gamba (Naxos 2008), in collaboration with AapoHäkkinen, and Couperin's Suites for viola da gamba (Naxos 2011) have both received glowing reviews.
As one of the five members of the viola de gamba ensemble Phantasm, Perkola has had the chance to perform at venues like Wigmore Hall and in Hong Kong, to name a few. In 2017 the ensemble won their third Gramophone Prize for the recording Dowland. Perkola’sbond to Early music is not too strong and he works excellently with jazz musicians, dancers, artists and experts in modern music. His current projects consists of the duo Perko/la with the saxophonist JukkaPerko and the group Ajaton, which consists of Perkola, Mia Simanainen (vocals), Kari Ikonen (Moog synthesizer) and Henrik Sandås (bandoneon). He tours also with his solo performance “Ilmannimeäolisitvaloa” (“Without a name you would be bright”), in where he recites the poems of TomiKontio. Perkola’s work and his interests are strongly aimed at experimental art and societal projects. Solo performances along duo projects, with both the Finnish National Theater’s Touring Stage and the Lahti City Theater in collaboration with actors, has led him to hundreds of social care units. Perkola has travelled to all the reception centers in Finland and has performed with the dancer Nina Hyvärinen and the actor JussiLehtonen. He has also performed at almost all the Finnish prisons and has done theater with prisoners in many different projects. His extensive work includes collaborations with diverse artists, art work through music making, composing, singing and recitative and everything between older music and multidisciplinary art projects. Perkola holds the state grant for artists until the year 2018.

AnnamariaHannonen has graduated as a Masters of Music in Voice Performance and Music Education from the Sibelius Academy. Her previous teachers includes of SatuKaarisola-Kulo, MarjaHolopainen and PäiviHeikinheimo.
Hannonen has worked as a soloist in multiple works for church music, for example with Hyvinkää Oratorio Choir and Canzonetta Nova from Järvenpää. She has given concerts with different ensembles with Early music in focus, e.g. with the song group Lumen Valo. Hannunen’s voice has been described as clear and ebullient: “One has to seek for a comparable of her lyrically beautiful and clean voice!” (Freely translated from Aamuposti: "hänenvertaistaanäänenlyyrisessäkauneudessa ja puhtaudessasaa hakea!")
AnnamariaHannonen has collaborated with the composer SampsaErtamosice a young age and has premiered many of his works. Hannonen works as a Lecturer in Vocal Performance at the Riihimäki Music Institute.

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