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Emerging Ensemble: Saxtronauts

Organised by Time Of Music, Finland
The Finnish ensemble Saxtronauts is giving two concerts at the Time of Music Festival 2025 in Viitasaari.
On Thursday 3 July, the ensemble sends the audience on a journey through space. The concert features premieres from Osmo Tapio Räihälä and Olli Moilanen, as well as music inspired by freezing winter, cosmic dust, and the importance of close people.
On Friday 4 July, the ensemble travels through time, fitting into one programme both sacred music from the middle ages and millennial techno-vibes.
Programme
Thursday:
SUPERNOVA 1945
Meriheini Luoto: Talven uneen vaipuen (2024)
Kätköt
Talviunia
Kevät kuohuu ja kohisee
Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Oil Today Water Tomorrow (2024, world premiere)
Nuño Fernández Ezquerra: Plerion (2019)
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Olli Moilanen: Crisalide (2025, world premiere)
Outi Tarkiainen: There’s more light in this room when you’re here (2018)
Mioko Yokoyama: Tetra-Alloy (2024)
The concert is broadcasted by the Finnish broadcasting company YLE
Friday:
Leçons de ténèbres – Lessons of Darkness
Lauri Supponen: Ave Maris Stella (2020)
I Field Research
II Data processing
Juhani Nuorvala: Kreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019) **
I Valoisa valssi
II Tumma valssi
III Intohimo
Perotinus: Viderunt omnes (arr. Nanna Ikonen)
Hildegard Bingeniläinen: O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)
Juhani Nuorvala: Concertino (2004)*
Juhani Nuorvala: Kreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019)**
IV Élegié pour Julie
Hildegard Bingeniläinen: Karitas habundat in omnia (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)
Lauri Supponen: Ave Maris Stella
III Diffusion of Results
Saxtronauts Ensemble:
Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone
Nanna Ikonen, saxophone
Nanako Lammi, saxophone
Sikri Lehko, saxophone