Friday 24.7.
Friday 24.7.2026
10.00 Salakamari
The Heart of the Day - Composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä talks about the Festival's program (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)
- Adam Walker
- Berit Cardas
- Zoran Marković
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)
- Matthew Hunt
- Irina Zahharenkova
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
“In this quartet, I develop what I call a ‘hunting theme’ (which I have borrowed from Schumann’s ‘Papillons’). At its height, the theme’s sprightly original disintegrates and assumes a more skeletal form.
As the work progresses, the disposition of the four musicians changes: the boastful hunters gradually become the prey, the hunted. On top of this, there is a fateful shift of perspective as the other three players attack the cellist, who becomes the prey – the situation is analogous with our social behavioural models.
The music’s playful, charged surface belies a seriousness that slowly permeates the entire work.”
Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (1973—):
String Quartet No. 3 'Hunt' (2003)
Friday 24.7.2026
55. 18.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre — €33/25
The big seven-o: 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)
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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 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)
- Adam Walker
- Danel Quartet
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 soirée
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676—1749):
Suite du Deuxième Ton: movements Plein Jeu and Récit de Nazard from Suite Livre d'orgue (1710)