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Emerging Ensemble: Saxtronauts

Saxtronauts photo by Sofia Okkonen
Saxtronauts ensemble / Photo: Sofia Okkonen

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 LuotoTalven uneen vaipuen (2024)

Kätköt
Talviunia
Kevät kuohuu ja kohisee

Osmo Tapio RäihäläOil Today Water Tomorrow (2024, world premiere)
Nuño Fernández EzquerraPlerion (2019)

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Olli MoilanenCrisalide (2025, world premiere)
Outi TarkiainenThere’s more light in this room when you’re here (2018)
Mioko YokoyamaTetra-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)
Field Research
II Data processing

Juhani NuorvalaKreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019) **
Valoisa valssi
II Tumma valssi
III Intohimo

Perotinus: Viderunt omnes (arr. Nanna Ikonen)

Hildegard BingeniläinenO Ignis Spiritus Paracliti (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)

Juhani NuorvalaConcertino (2004)*

Juhani NuorvalaKreivin keittiössä, juhannusaamuna (2019)**
IV Élegié pour Julie

Hildegard BingeniläinenKaritas habundat in omnia (arr. Anna-Sofia Anttonen)

Lauri SupponenAve Maris Stella

III Diffusion of Results

 

Saxtronauts Ensemble:

Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone

Nanna Ikonen, saxophone

Nanako Lammi, saxophone

Sikri Lehko, saxophone

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