Villa Hakasalmi

Sound artist Kadi Vija brings to the stage an intimate and inquisitive work about family, love, and seeing the world from a different perspective. “Tiny Hands Gathering Wonder, The World Becomes Magic” tells the story of Teppo, who was born into a rainbow family – not as a fictional tale of childhood, but as poetry […]

Harri Sjöström’s Mother's Delight - Special Guest: Veli Kujala Jukka Kääriäinen: guitar and effects Libero Mureddu: keyboards & electronics Heikki Nikula: bass clarinet Harri Sjöström: soprano and sopranino saxophones Veli Kujala: quarter-tone accordion Mother’s Delight first performed in 2023, and after that initial concert it was immediately clear that the project should continue as a […]

Two acclaimed and award-winning Finnish jazz musicians come together in a rare saxophone–drums duo. Saxophonist Pauli Lyytinen won the 2024 Jazz Emma Award for his album Lehto / Korpi, while drummer Markku Ounaskari has received both the Emma Award for Jazz Album of the Year in 2010 and the Finnish Jazz Federation’s Yrjö Award in […]

Vapaat äänet, celebrating its 30th anniversary this autumn, brings French pianist Bruno Angelini’s Lotus Flowers trio to Finland in November 2026, featuring saxophonists Angelika Niescier and Sakina Abdou. The lotus flower is a thing of beauty born from the mud, a metaphor for a troubled world. “When this flower blooms in the muddy marsh, the […]

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 […]