GALA CONCERT. CAMILLA NYLUND (soprano, FI/DE)
Friday August 28 at 19:00 St John’s Church
Vabaduse väljak 1, Tallinn
Soloists: Camilla Nylund
Peeter Sarapuu (bassoon)
FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA:
Maano Männi (concertmaster)
Joosep Reimaa (violin), Triinu Piirsalu (violin), Katariina Maria Kits (violin)
Linda-Anette Verte (violin), Andres Kaljuste (viola)
Johanna Vahermägi (viola), Marcel Johannes Kits (cello)
Vladimir Reshetko (cello, RU/FI), Pontus Grans (double bass, FI)
Pipilota Neostus (flute), Dmitri Bulgakov (oboe, RU)
Toomas Vavilov (clarinet), Kreete Perandi (horn), Tiit Joamets (vibraphone)
Programme:
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
„Two Nordic Melodies“ op 63
In Folk Style
Cow-call & Peasant Dance
Tõnis Kaumann (*1971)
Bassoon Concerto
(world premier)
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
„Vier letzte Lieder“ / „Four Last Songs“
(arr. J. Ledger)
I Frühling (Spring)
II September
III Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep)
IV Im Abendrot (At Sunset)
CAMILLA NYLUND is one of the most well-known Finnish opera singers, who is in demand on various stages around the world. She began her studies with Prof. Eva Illes and later continued at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. For her outstanding achievement she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal in 1995 by the International Foundation of the Mozarteum. C. Nylund was a member of the ensemble at the Dresden Semper Opera from 1999 until 2002 and ever since then she has been invited to perform at many of the world’s leading opera houses including Covent Garden in London, San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, Hamburg State Opera, Zurich Opera, Köln Opera, Theater an der Wien, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, La Scala di Milano, Berlin Philharmonie, New National Theatre Tokyo, Paris Bastille, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam etc. She has performed in such major cities as Venice, Valencia, Chicago, Philadelphia, Lyon, Bayreuth, Düsseldorf, Munich, Helsinki etc. C. Nylund’s repertoire includes such works of world opera literature as “Così fan tutte” (Fiordiligi), “Falstaff”, “La clemenza di Tito”, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (Eva), “Arabella”, “Tannhäuser” (Elisabeth, Venus), “Der Rosenkavalier” (Marschallin), “Der Freischütz”, “Die Fledermaus”, “Eugene Onegin” (Tatyana), “Capriccio” (Gräfin), “Fidelio” (Leonore), “Salome” (Salome), “Le nozze di Figaro” (Contessa), Henze’s “Das Floß der Medusa”, “Khovanshchina” (Emma), “Rusalka”, “Rienzi” (Irene), “Notre Dame”, “Ariadne auf Naxos”, “Elektra” (Chrysothemis), “Don Carlos” (Elisabetta), “Lohengrin” (Elsa), “Die Walküre” (Sieglinde), “Die tote Stadt”, “Der fliegende Holländer” (Senta), “Frau ohne Schatten” (Kaiserin), “Wozzeck” (Marie), “Missa solemnis”, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony etc. She is regularly working with the world’s leading conductors within the concert and oratorio repertoire including Daniel Barenboim, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Ingo Metzmacher, Sir Simon Rattle, Yakov Kreizberg, Christian Thielemann, just to mention a few. Future engagements include new productions “Der Rosenkavalier” and “Jenůfa” at the Staatsoper Berlin, “Erwartung” at La Scala and in Frankfurt, “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” and “Lohengrin” in Bayreuth, “Ariadne auf Naxos” in Hamburg, “Die Walküre” (Sieglinde), “Elektra” (Chrysothemis) and “Die Fledermaus” (Rosalinde) in Wiener Staatsoper, “Die tote Stadt” in Munich, “Tosca” in Helsinki etc.
PEETER SARAPUU has for the majority of his career been connected to Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (ENSO), where he worked between 1985-91 in the beginning and after seven seasons as the principal bassoonist in different Finnish orchestras again since 1998. Since 2005 he has been the principal bassoonist of the ENSO. As a soloist in front of an orchestra P. Sarapuu debuted in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto with the ENSO and with conductor Peeter Lilje (1986). He has repeatedly been a bassoon soloist in Eino Tamberg’s “Concerto grosso” (1998 Arvo Volmer, 2010 Olari Elts, ENSO) and in Hindemith’s Concerto for trumpet, bassoon and strings (2008 Nikolai Aleksejev, ENSO) and John Williams’ bassoon concerto “Five Sacred Trees” (2012 Olari Elts, ENSO). In addition, he has been a soloist in front of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland and the Vaasa City Orchestra with Vivaldi’s, Mozart’s and Weber’s bassoon concertos. He has played with NYYD Ensemble, Drottingholm Baroque Orchestra, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the Sixth Floor Orchestra (Kuudennen Kerroksen Orkesteri), Opus X Ensemble (Finland), Corelli Consort, Reval Ensemble, The Theatre of Voices (Gr. Britain), Kesselberg Ensemble (Switzerland), Melomania (Netherlands) and many other collectives. P. Sarapuu’s repertoire includes preferably early music on original instruments and contemporary music. Chamber music has always played an important part in his repertoire, and he has performed as soloist and a chamber musician of several Estonian and international music festivals including “NYYD”, “Märzmusik”, “Klangspuren”, Bruges Festival, “Europa musicale”, Haydn-Festival Vienna, La Folle Journée France and Japan etc. He has recorded music for the ENB archive and played as a soloist on several records. P. Sarapuu has been a Walter-artist from 2010. He has been nominated for the Estonian National Cultural Award twice (2012, 2016). Besides a career as a performer, for over two decades P. Sarapuu has taught students at several Finnish educational institutions, the Tallinn Music High School, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and in several master courses.