Friday 24.7.
Friday 24.7.2026
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the Day - Composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä talks about the Festival's programme (this session will in English, admission free).
Friday 24.7.2026
11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre/Pajakka Hall
Student Concert (admission free)
- Students of the music courses
Friday 24.7.2026
52. 11.00 Kuhmo Church — €28/21 *
Foot-tapping Friday
Erwín Schulhoff (1894—1942):
Allergo furioso from Concertino for flute, viola and double bass (1925)
Arthur Bliss (1891—1975):
Connelly's Jig from Oboe Quintet, F. 21 (1927)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840—1893):
Valse - Scherzo in C, Op. 34 (1877; arr. for violin and piano by composer)
Witold Lutosławski (1913—1994):
Dance Preludes for clarinet and piano (1954)
Friday 24.7.2026
53. 13.00 Tuupala Primary School — €12
Chamber music workshop
Johannes Brahms (1833—1897):
String Quintet No. 1 in F, Op. 88 (1882)
- Atte Kilpeläinen
- Students of the music courses
Sergey Prokofiev (1891—1953):
Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass 'Trapèze' (1924)
- Zoran Marković
- Students of the music courses
Friday 24.7.2026
54. 15.00 Tuupala Primary School — €28/21
Hunting party
“This quartet is the development of a 'healthy' hunting theme in dotted rhythm (borrowed from Schumann’s Papillons) which culminates in the fragmentation and final skeletonization of an initially positive hunting figure.
Simultaneously, the situation of the four musicians changes: the bragging hunters are successively transformed into those pursued and hunted. The additional (fatal) change in perspective in which the three upper strings gang up on the cellist and pin the blame on him is an analogy of social behavioral patterns.
The consistently playful-overexcited inflection only barely masks the earnestness which has forced itself into this work."
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (1973—):
String Quartet No. 3 'Hunt' (2003)
Friday 24.7.2026
55. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25
Milestones: Lava-ammuntaa VIII - After Eight Comedy
Ulla Tapaninen
70 years on earth.
50 years on the stage.
30 years of After Eight Comedy.
And sharper than ever.
Ryhmäteatteri
At the After Eight Comedy Show, Kainuu’s very own diva Ulla Tapaninen returns to marvel at the ways of the world in her inimitable sharp-witted and sharp-tongued style.
Excerpts from the Work The Short-Tempered Clavier by musical satirist P. D. Q. Bach
Lava-ammuntaa VIII After Eight Comedy (2025, in Finnish)
Intermission
Excerpts from the Work The Short-Tempered Clavier by musical satirist P. D. Q. Bach
Lava-ammuntaa VIII After Eight Comedy (2025, in Finnish)
Friday 24.7.2026
56. 18.00 Sotkamo Church — €28/21 **
Ristijärventie 1, 88600 Sotkamo (driving time from the centre of Kuhmo approx. 45 min)
There's a party in Kuhmo. Sotkamo, you're invited
Erkki Melartin (1875—1937):
Festive March from the Incidental Music Sleeping Beauty, Op. 22 No. 30 for organ (1904)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):
Allegro from String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1 'Razumovsky' (1806)
Jean Sibelius (1865—1957):
En glad musikant (a Happy Musician), JS 70 for violin (1924–25)
Amy Beach (1867—1944):
Theme and Variations, Op. 80 for flute and string quartet (1916)
Edward Elgar (1857—1934):
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, Op. 39 No. 1 (1901, arr. for organ by Edwin Lemaire)
The concert is hosted by Minna Pensola.
THIS CONCERT IS COOPERATION WITH OSUUSKAUPPA MAAKUNTA AND THE MUNICIPALITY OF SOTKAMO.
Dinner will be available before and after the concert at Break Sokos Hotel Vuokatti Restaurants (Kidekuja 2). Information and table reservations: raflaamo.fi/fi/sotkamo
Friday 24.7.2026
57. 21.00 Chapel — €28/21
Kappelikuja 1 (approx. 1 km from the Kuhmo Arts Centre)
Birthday boys
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676—1749):
Suite du Deuxième Ton: movements Plein Jeu and Récit de Nazard from Suite Livre d'orgue (1710)