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.
Programme
14.7.
Enoch Sontonga (1873—1905):
Hymn 501 – Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (God Bless Africa) (Hymn-along, in Finnish) (1897)
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem 23.30 Pikajuna Viipuriin
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Tuntematon tie
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Kirje
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem Kevät
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Konstantinopeliin
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem Valtatiet
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Täysikuu
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem Ensimmäinen suudelma
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Nuoruus
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem Teräskukat
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Sininen yö
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Ja lopuksi
18.7.
Mika Waltari (1908—1979):
Poem Päiväkirjan teksti
18.7.
Anna-Mari Kähärä (1963):
Aurinkolaulu
Meta4
13.7.
Intimate Voices, Incidental Music for two clowns and string quartet (2025, premier)
14.7.
Robert Schumann (1810—1856):
String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1 (1842)
14.7.
Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):
String Quartet No. 62 in C, Op. 76 No. 3 'Emperor' (1797)
14.7.
15.7.
16.7.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809—1847):
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827)
16.7.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 (1826)
17.7.
Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):
Fugue for Martin Wegelius for string quartet (1889)
18.7.
18.7.
Oscar Byström (1821—1909):
Intermezzo from String Quartet in C minor 'Swedish' (1856, rev. 1895)
18.7.
Hymn 571 – Den blomstertid nu kommer (Summer Hymn) (1697) (Hymn-along, in Finnish)
20.7.
W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):
Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (1791, arr. for vocal quartet and string quartet by Atte Kilpeläinen and Meta4)