Photo: Antti Hannuniemi
Atte Kilpeläinen
Atte Kilpeläinen has had an adventurous career as head of the viola section in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and as a member of the Meta4 String Quartet. He had begun to study the violin at the West Uusimaa Music College in Finland, but eight years later he switched to the viola. He attended the Helsinki Conservatory and then the Sibelius Academy and the Musikhochschule in Cologne, from where he graduated in 2004. His teachers have included Pirjo Suonio, Lauri Poijärvi, Sari Aalto, Jouko Mansnerus and Rainer Moog.
Before he joined the Helsinki Philharmonic permanently, Kilpeläinen played with the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Kuhmo chamber orchestra, and, abroad, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra. He has been a member of the Virtuosi di Kuhmo ensemble since 2000 and since 2006 has played with Meta4, touring with them extensively in Finland and abroad. He has played music with notable figures, such as Antti Tikkanen, Jaakko and Pekka Kuusisto and Gareth Lubbe. In 2009, he and friends also founded the multidisciplinary art association Hämmentämö, its mission being to encourage dialogue between the arts. The cross-disciplinary thematic concerts which the organisation has put on in Vihti, near Helsinki, have proven popular.
Atte Kilpeläinen teaches at the Sibelius Academy.
Programme
24.7.
Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):
String Quintet No. 1 in F, Op. 88 (1882)
- Atte Kilpeläinen
- Students of the music courses
25.7.
Paul Hindemith (1895—1963):
Rasendes Zeitmass. Wild. Tonschönheit ist Nebensache from Sonata No. 2, Op. 25 No. 1 for viola (1922)
Meta4
20.7.
20.7.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
String Quartet No. 6 in B flat, Op. 18 No. 6 'Malinconia' (1798–1800)
20.7.
Robert Schumann (1810—1856):
String Quartet No. 3 in A, Op. 41 No. 3 (1842)
21.7.
22.7.
Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):
String Quartet No. 49 in B minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (1790)
23.7.
Krishna Nagaraja (1975):
Peripheries for string quartet (2026, commissioned by Kuhmo Chamber Music, premiere)
23.7.
24.7.
25.7.
Luigi Boccherini (1743—1805):
Minuetto from String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5 (G. 275) (1771)
25.7.
Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):
Poco Adagio - Cantabile from String Quartet in C, Op. 76 No. 3 'Emperor' (1797)
25.7.
W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):
Molto allegro from String Quartet in G, K. 387 (1782)
25.7.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
Grave ma non troppo - Allegro from String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 (1826)
25.7.
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805—1847):
Adagio ma non troppo from String Quartet in E flat (1834)
25.7.
Robert Schumann (1810—1856):
Assai agitato from String Quartet No. 3 in A, Op. 41 No. 3 (1842)
25.7.
Maurice Ravel (1875—1937):
Allegro moderato from String Quartet in F (1902–03)
25.7.
Alban Berg (1885—1935):
Allegro misterioso from Lyric Suite (1925–26)
25.7.
Leoš Janáček (1854—1928):
Andante - Con moto - Allegro from String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters' (1928)
25.7.
Amy Beach (1867—1944):
Movement from String Quartet, Op. 89 (1921–29)
25.7.
Béla Bartók (1881—1945):
Scherzo from String Quartet No. 5 in B flat (1934)
25.7.
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906—1975):
Allegro non troppo from String Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73 (1946)
25.7.
Kaija Saariaho (1952—2023):
Fleurs de neige from Neiges (1998, arr. for string quartet by composer 2013)
25.7.
Jaakko Kuusisto (1974—2022):
Movement from Play III, Op. 21 (2008)