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Why do we like Sibelius?

03/03/2015Uncategorizedquestionnaire, surveysibelius

We are currently preparing a survey that will examine why we respond as we do to the music of Sibelius.

To make our survey as representative as possible we invite all visitors to the Sibelius One website to complete and submit the short response form below, before 30th April 2015.

Answers don’t have to be scholarly or technical – just spontaneous!

The results of the survey will form the basis of an article to be published in the summer, and the best indivudual comments will be included – anonymously if you wish.

In particular we are keen to know how attitudes to Sibelius vary in different countries, so please be sure to tell us which country you live in.

When you have filled in the form, press the ‘Send Now!’ button.

Thank you for your help and we look forward to sharing the results with you!

Sibelius and Nielsen at the Purcell Room

13/01/2015UncategorizedFenella Humphreys, Nicola Eimer, Purcell Room, QEH, Southbank Centre, Violin Concertosibelius

As a celebration of the 150th anniversaries of Sibelius’s and Nielsen’s birth, the duo Fenella Humphreys (violin) and Nicola Eimer (piano) will be performing at the Purcell Room, QEH, Southbank Centre in London on Wednesday 4th February at 7.45 pm.

In addition to playing works by Sibelius and Nielsen, the duo has commissioned a new short set of British pieces, inspired by and taking the movement titles of Sibelius’s Five Pieces, Op. 81. The composers for these pieces are Cheryl Frances-Hoad, David Knotts, Matthew Taylor, Alasdair Nicolson and Anthony Powers.

Wednesday 4th February 2015, 7.45 pm
Purcell Room at QEH, Southbank Centre

Sibelius: Five Pieces, Op. 81
Nielsen: Sonata No. 2, Op. 35
Sibelius: Sonatina, Op. 80
Five Pieces – by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Alasdair Nicolson, Matthew Taylor, David Knotts and Anthony Powers (world première)
Sibelius: Four Pieces, Op. 115

Fenella Humphreys, violin · Nicola Eimer, piano

To book tickets click here.

A recording by Fenella Humphreys and Nicola Eimer of Sibelius’s Sonatina is in preparation, for release later in 2015.

Fenella Humphreys will also be performing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at concerts in Chatham (28th February), Colchester (21st March) and London (28th & 29th March)

Kullervo in Tokyo

04/01/2015News, UncategorizedKullervo, Laulu-Miehet, Matti Hyökki, Sibelius Society of Japan, Yuri Nittasibelius

The Sibelius Society of Japan is arranging a performance of Kullervo on 3rd March 2015 at the Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo.

Soloists Yukari Komagamine (mezzo-soprano) and Toshiyuki Sueyoshi (baritone) will join the Laulu-Miehet choir from Finland (chorus-master: Matti Hyökki) and Oedo Korarias; the orchestra is Sinfonia Ainola and the conductor is Yuri Nitta.

Yuri Nitta is President of the Sibelius Society of Japan, and both vocal soloists are members of the society. An earlier Tokyo performance of Kullervo was given by Sinfonia Ainola in 2007, the 50th anniversary year of Sibelius’s death.

The Laulu-Miehet choir celebrated its centenary in 2014.

Further information (in Japanese) here.