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KANTELE! TRADITION OF EXPERIMENTATION

Concert of young Finnish musicians
ETHNO-JAZZ, ROCK, ELECTRO

«Carneval» Concert hall

ANTTU KOISTINEN
SENNI ESKELINEN & THE STRING PUREE BAND
MEMNON: EVA ALKULA NAD VILLE HYVONEN

Anttu Koistinen: This fourteen year old virtuoso has turned the kantele into a swinging and rocking instrument. He is a self learned musician who has developed new techniques and an intensive and joyful way of performing. He plays his own compositions and arrangements of well-known melodies with the electric kantele in a never heard way. Anttu comes from a family of kantele builders and developers and was the first one in the world to play with the electric kantele.

Senni Eskelinen: Senni has played kantele since she was three years old. She combines traditional sounds with for instance jazz and Latin music. She studies in Sibelius Academy and performs all around Finland. She has won several national kantele playing championships.

Memnon

Eva Alkula: A leading kantele artist in Finland who studied classical and contemporary kantele playing and won the National Kantele competition. Performs alone, or together with sound designer Ville Hyvonen as a duo called Memnon. They combine the unique Finnish sound of kantele with Scandinavian electronic minimalism.

A kantele exhibition off-program will be organized at the concert venue.

Venue address: Nevski prospect 39. Metro: "Gostiny dvor"