CELEBRATION: RALF GOTHÓNI 80

10.6.2026 @ 19:00 - 21:30

The Grand Old Man of the piano and the inexhaustible driving force of the Naantali Music Festival, Ralf Gothóni, celebrates his 80th birthday. The stage will be filled with time-tested favorites, long-time friends, and young talents.

Alfred Schnittke provoked puritans by crossing Baroque traditions with modernism. The death of his mother casts its shadow over his Piano Quintet: a masterpiece brimming with piercing madness and endless surprises, an emotional rollercoaster where dreams and ghosts merge in surreal confusion. In complete contrast stands W. A. Mozart’s Piano Quartet, one of the crowning achievements of Classical chamber music.

With his immensely popular Piano Quintet, Antonín Dvořák joined the honorary gallery of Romantic composers alongside Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms. Combining innate drama with Bohemian folk rhythms, this delightful work has become one of Gothóni’s trademarks, where decades of experience speak for themselves.

W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet g minor K. 478
Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quintet
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Antonín Dvořak: Piano Quintet No. 2 A Major

Ralf Gothóni, piano
Elina Vähälä, violin
Ioana Cristina Goicea, violin
Lilja Haatainen, violin
Janne Malmivaara, violin
Anna Kreetta Gribajevic, viola
Hartmut Rohde, viola
Senja Rummukainen, cello
Arto Noras, cello
Saima Malmivaara, cello

Tickets:
54€ / 49€ / 27€

54€ Category A (Premium seats, rows 2-5)
49€ Category B
27€ Category C Restricted view seats and discount groups

Discount groups: Under 18s, students, unemployed persons, and conscripts €27
Wheelchair space + companion seat: €49 (total)

Tickets available at
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