Turku Music Festival ( Finnish : Turun musiikkijuhlat , Swedish : Åbo musikfestspel ) is the oldest continuously operating music festival in Finland . The festival was founded in 1960 by the Musical Society in Turku . The city festival offers audiences' big orchestral concerts, chamber music concerts, recitals, jazz, out-door events and concerts. The festival is annually visited by both international and Finnish artists.
3-837: The festival takes place in several concert halls, churches and other venues in Turku such as the Turku Concert Hall , the Academy Hall, the Turku Cathedral , Sigyn Hall , the Turku Castle and the Sibelius Museum . The program consists of orchestral concerts by Turku's own philharmonic orchestra as well as several visiting ensembles and conductors, soloists, chamber musicians, jazz musicians and also some staged or semi-staged music performances. In 2019
6-556: The conductor and cellist Klaus Mäkeläthe became festival's artistic director. Previous artistic directors have been pianist/conductor Ville Matvejeff, tenor Topi Lehtipuu , pianist/conductor Olli Mustonen and cellist Martti Rousi . Turku Concert Hall Turku Concert Hall ( Finnish : Turun konserttitalo , Swedish : Åbo konserthus ) is located on the north side of the Puutori market square in Turku , Finland . The hall
9-542: Was designed by architect Risto-Veikko Luukkonen and constructed in 1952. It was the first concert hall in Finland. The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra primarily performs at the concert hall but there are many top international venues that perform there as well. There is one auditorium in the building and it was designed for concerts. Its audience capacity is 1,002. The acoustics are excellent. In addition to concerts, conferences, plays, fairs and other events take place in
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