Emerging Ensemble: Saxtronauts

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

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