Early Music Scene in
Finland
Márta Schmidt
executive director, Vantaa Music Festival
REMA, June 30th 2012
[email protected], +358 40 7675935
Short history
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defining national identity
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music’s role in the process
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1910s Heikki Klemetti and Piae Cantiones
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1930s Toivo Haapanen: History of Finnish
Music
1980s Avanti! Battalia, 6th Floors orchestra
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young musicians studied in the Netherland,
Basel and Germany,
then to France and England
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the HEBO generation
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festivals starting up
Where are we now?
Music Industry in Finland
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Total: 817,7 milj
EURO
Music Education = 264,2 m¤
Live music
Music
Copyrights
Recordings
Grants
Education
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Copyrights = 77,9 m¤
2011
Recordings = 66,5 m¤
Grants =14,9 m¤
LIVE MUSIC 404 m€
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Private sector: 212,2
Private sector: 212,2
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Festivals 62 %
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Corporate gigs 14 %
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Boats 12 %
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Clubs % rest. 7%
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Dance places 5%
Symph. orch. 74,1
National opera 53,3
Church 54,0
Military 10,4
Festivals: incomes
38 213 164 €
box office= 16 314 691 ¤
merchandise= 240 966 ¤
restaurant= 1 299 452 ¤
rents= 724 431 ¤
copyrights= 112 053 ¤
other incomes= 4 306 813 ¤
sponsorship= 4 176 904 ¤
government= 3 891 212 ¤
municipal= 5679 429 ¤
EU= 275 203 ¤
other public= 407 830 ¤
foundations= 632 579 ¤
other public= 151 601 ¤
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Vantaa Music Festival incomes
141 325 €
box office= 15 000 ¤
merchandise= 0 ¤
restaurants= 0 ¤
rents= 0 ¤
copyrights= 1 500 ¤
other= 18 000 ¤
sponsorship= 7 125 ¤
government= 21 000 ¤
municipal= 37 000 ¤
EU= 20 000 ¤
other public= 5 500 ¤
foundations= 16 200
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Trends & prospects @ Vantaa
international festival focuses on period
instruments, what this means?
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commissions from composers
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contacts between remote cultures
3.
breaking the traditional concert format
4.
ensemble in residence
re-branding the festival: from Vantaa to
something else
Early music at festivals
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Vantaa Baroque
Vantaa Music Festival
Sastamala Gregoriana, Les Lumiéres,
BarokkiKuopio, Vanhassa vara parempi, Oulu
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festivals with early music concerts: Helsinki,
Turku, Kuhmo, Kirkko Soikoon, Lux Musicae
Orchestras
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Orchestras
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Finnish Baroque Orchestra, art.
dir. Markku Luolajan-Mikkola,
exec.dir. Laura KajanderFiestas – VOS-orchestra: 2011 4
person, á 20 000 e
83 000
2012: 5
103 000 e
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra,
art. dir. Aapo Häkkinen, prod.
Kerttu Piirto – no government
money, but the city of Helsinki
reference: Avanti! 22
000 e
457
Concert halls and series
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Helsinki Music Center:
HEBO and Aapo Häkkinen
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Sellosali (Espoo,
Leppävaara)
Internationally remarkable
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soloists/chamber musicians:
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola,
Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch,
Aapo Häkkinen Tuija Hakkila,
Mikael Helasvuo, Eero
Palviainen etc.
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Ensembles: Battalia, Oliphant,
Rantatie, Opus X, Lumen valo,
Baccano etc.
EDUCATION
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Sibelius Academy
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Metropolia
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Helsinki Conservatory
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West-Helsinki music institute
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FIBO Collegium