Villa Hakasalmi

Damien Sabatier: alto and sopranino saxophones Hugues Mayot: tenor saxophone Joachim Florent: double bass Antonin Leymarie: drums The driving forces behind the ensemble are the two saxophonists Damien Sabatier and Gérald Chevillon, who also founded Impérial Quartet in 2010. At the jaZZanti concert, however, Chevillon will be replaced by the outstanding saxophonist Hugues Mayot, who […]

Bassist Antti Lötjönen, recipient of the Finnish Jazz Federation’s Yrjö Award 2024 and one of Finland’s most respected jazz musicians, joins forces with guitarist Kalle Kalima, a Berlin-based artist with a strong career in Central Europe. In the music of Lötjönen and Kalima, the experience of thousands of concerts on stages around the world meets […]

Pärt & Songs was born from this insight: what seems fragile can contain something immense; the points of friction between materials, forms, and memories are fertile. In the hands of Italian composer and pianist Roberto Negro, Arvo Pärt’s piano works become a source, an underground current. Arvo Pärt is one of the most significant figures […]

The autumn jaZZanti concert series presents 14 concerts featuring inspiring, high-quality jazz and improvised music. In 2026, it will be 100 years since jazz symbolically arrived in Finland aboard the ship Andania on June 4, 1926. Helsinki Jazz’s autumn programme reflects the Jazz Finland 100 anniversary year by presenting a diverse cross-section of top-level Finnish […]