The 57th Kuhmo Chamber Music on July 11−24, 2027
The 57th Kuhmo Chamber Music will take place from 11th to 24th July 2027. Our artistic directors Minna Pensola and Antti Tikkanen have chosen Revolution as the theme for the upcoming festival. The 14-day festival programme will featur a total of 60 ticketed concerts. New commissioned works for the summer will be composed by Heta Aho, Kalevi Aho, and Marzi Nyman. The programme and the artists will be published in January 2027.
Welcome to Kuhmo – the capital of chamber music!
Kuhmo Chamber Music
For two frenetic weeks in July, Kuhmo in Eastern Finland is host to a chamber music festival attracting thousands of music lovers. In that fortnight, this town of 7,000 inhabitants echoes to the sound of music against a backcloth of a lake that almost laps the walls of the concert halls in the clear, unbelievable northern light.
The concerts are held at the Kuhmo Arts Centre, in the Lentua Hall renowned for its excellent acoustics, in Kuhmo’s beautiful wooden Church, and in the Tuupala Primary School. The concert venues are all within walking distance of one another, and bicycles are a popular means of getting about, for artists and audiences alike. Music is everywhere, there are concerts from morning to late at night, and people just live for the music. In the evenings, gathered round an open fire in the yard of the festival restaurant, musicians and festival-goers get together and strike up friendships.
In over 56 years, Kuhmo Chamber Music has grown to become one of the world’s foremost music festivals. As early as 1989, the prestigious American journal Connoisseur was already calling it “possibly the best anywhere”. In summer 2014 the British Financial Times described it as “a remarkable event, where unfettered creative idealism reigns. The Austrian music magazine Festspiele has rated Kuhmo among the world’s leading festivals in 2008−2015.