10.1.2024
Arto Noras has performed as a soloist with most of the leading orchestras and conductors around the world, and has also served as an active chamber musician. His repertoire extends to virtually the entire literature written for the cello.
The amount of recordings is extensive, including several works dedicated to him. with recording partners including such distinguished figures as Krzysztof Penderecki and Aulis Sallinen. Arto Noras’ career as a professor at the Sibelius Academy, his master classes given all over the world, and his work on the juries of international cello competitions have influenced the development of cello art both in Finland and globally.
He has founded Naantali Music Festival and the International Paulo Cello Competition, and continues to serve as Artistic Director of both events. He has both commissioned and premiered several works performed at Naantali Music Festival.
Jackpot
9.6.
The afternoon concert will feature pioneering works by Mozart and Schumann, works that immediately left their mark in the history of their form and never left.
Tales from Spain
12.6.
The concert evening with a Spanish atmosphere will include Fallen Leaves actor Jussi Vatanen.
In honorem maris
13.6.
Our homage to the sea, a tradition of the Naantali Music Festival, treads the paths laid out by Jaakko Kuusisto and Franz Schubert. Although Kuusisto did not always compose for the sea, probably not a bar of music would have been composed had he not found inspiration from his sailing trips. The chamber works Miniö […]
