Sonja Fräki

Sonja Fräki

Sonja Fräki is an active performing pianist. She is known as a soloist as well as an experienced chamber music player. Fräki’s repertoire contains a broad selection from classical to modern music. Her speciality is the piano repertoire of Finnish composer Kalevi Aho, which she has played and performed completely. Sonja Fräki also made her doctoral thesis about Aho’s music. She gained her Ph.D. in music from the University of the Arts’ in Sibelius Academy in the autumn of 2016. Fräki has succeeded in several international piano competitions. In 2008 she won third prize in the Franz Liszt Competition in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2003 she got the firth prize in Franz Schubert Competition in Dortmund, where she also received a special prize for best performance of Schubert’s late sonata. Fräki has been awarded with special prizes at Maj Lind International Piano Competition in Finland and Paderewski Competition in Poland. Sonja Fräki has performed as a soloist in front of multiple orchestras, such as Tapiola Sinfonietta, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Neue Phiharmonie Westfalen and Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra. Fräki has recorded two solo CDs. The other one had Kalevi Aho’s solo piano repertoire with the record label BIS. Musicweb International chose that CD as their CD of the Month in March 2015. Sonja Fräki has also recorded with BIS Aho’s chamber music and his first piano concerto with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

Programme

Wed
15.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

César Franck (1822—1890):

Allegretto ben moderato from Cello Sonata in A (1886)

Wed
15.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Carl Maria von Weber (1786—1826):

Andante con moto from Grand duo concertant, Op. 48 (1815-16)

Wed
15.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Claude Debussy (1862—1918):

Violin Sonata in G minor, CD 148 (1917)

Thu
16.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Allegro ma non tanto from Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69 (1808)

Thu
16.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Edward Elgar (1857—1934):

Adagio - Moderato from Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1919)

Thu
16.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Claude Debussy (1862—1918):

Première Rhapsodie, CD 124 (1909–10)

Fri
17.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

W. A. Mozart (1756—1791):

Allegro from Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216 (1775)

Fri
17.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Allegro assai from Violin Sonata No. 8 in G, Op. 30 No. 3 (1801–02)

Fri
17.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

Astor Piazzolla (1921—1992):

Le Grand Tango (1982)

Fri
17.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

Michael Haydn (1737—1806):

Romance from Double Horn Concerto in E flat

Fri
17.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835—1921):

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28 for violin and piano (1863)

Wed
22.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Francis Poulenc (1899—1963):

Élégie, FP 168 (1957)

Wed
22.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):

Allegro moderato from Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1905)

Wed
22.7.
45. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Fritz Kreisler (1875—1962):

Liebesleid, Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, No. 2 for violin and piano

Wed
22.7.
45. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Fritz Kreisler (1875—1962):

Liebesfreud, Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen, No. 1 for violin and piano (before 1910)

Wed
22.7.
45. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Maurice Ravel (1875—1937):

Modéré from Piano Trio (1914)

Thu
23.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Fritz Kreisler (1875—1962):

Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the Style of Francoeur (1910)

Thu
23.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):

Scherzo from F. A. E. Sonata (Frei aber einsam) (1853)

Thu
23.7.
Tuupala Primary School 12.30

Edouard Lalo (1823—1892):

Allegro non troppo from Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op. 21 (1874)

Fri
24.7.
Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall 11.00

Gabriel Fauré (1845—1924):

Allegro molto and Andante from Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13 (1875–76)