Global Fest: Open Stage
Global fest 2022 open stage.
Performers
Klo 16 Global Youth Project Performance with ESTRADA Music and Dance School
Two Global music teachers and seven Global master students and almost 30 young musicians from Estrada music school came together to form a creative community for a weekend. The project was organized as a part of Junior Academy’s regional teaching visits.
The students experienced new cultures, time signatures, scales and ways of learning music. The end result, “The Whale” , is a collaborative creation where students have been writing lyrics and melodies, creating soundscapes and accompaniment patterns to complete the piece. The participants creative collaboration was inspired and based on a composition written by Merve Abdurrahmani, master student of the Global Music Department.
Junior Academy regional teaching visits
The idea is to send Sibelius Academy teachers for regional visits to music institutions in different parts of Finland. Visits have often been executed as weekend-long master classes, which sometimes are finished with public concerts where the audience can hear the results of the teaching. The activity is aimed at young musicians of all ages and levels and can be applied for with any instrument and in any style (classical, jazz, folk, global music). Approximately 25 visits are made during each academic year and teaching visits are planned based on the needs of each hosting community.
Klo 17 Arabic Ensemble and Haneen Choir
Arabic music ensemble is a global music ensemble where students learn to play and understand the repertoire of traditional Arabic music from the eastern Mediterranean region. Haneen Suomi choir is a female singing group which performs traditional Syrian folk songs. It is a branch of the Haneen cultural forum, founded in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 2015 on the initiative of Raja Banout.The forum is a group of forcibly displaced Syrian women who have decided to face their pain and suffering with intellectual and cultural empowerment. The project aims to provide its participants with support as well as preserve the Syrian heritage.
In this concert, the students of Arabic music ensemble will perform some songs that they have been working on as part of their ensemble studies and will perform together with Haneen Suomi choir a Syrian folk medley that is part of the choir’s repertoire.
Further details: Minttu Hellstén, minttu.hellsten@uniarts.fi
Global Fest 2022
Global Fest 2022 is the 6th edition of an annual festival featuring students, teachers, alumni and special guests representing Sibelius Academy’s Global Music Department. Bringing together artists from many corners of the world, the Global Music Department focusses on intercultural dialogue and collaboration, creating new artistic work together and fostering a sense of global citizenship. Expect a feast of dynamic, innovative, inspiring concerts and pop up events, featuring performers from around the world celebrating the diversity of our planet.
Featuring performers from diverse corners of the world, including Aruba, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Mozambique, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and USA.
Performers
Klo 16 Global Youth Project Performance with ESTRADA Music and Dance School
Two Global music teachers and seven Global master students and almost 30 young musicians from Estrada music school came together to form a creative community for a weekend. The project was organized as a part of Junior Academy’s regional teaching visits.
The students experienced new cultures, time signatures, scales and ways of learning music. The end result, “The Whale” , is a collaborative creation where students have been writing lyrics and melodies, creating soundscapes and accompaniment patterns to complete the piece. The participants creative collaboration was inspired and based on a composition written by Merve Abdurrahmani, master student of the Global Music Department.
Junior Academy regional teaching visits
The idea is to send Sibelius Academy teachers for regional visits to music institutions in different parts of Finland. Visits have often been executed as weekend-long master classes, which sometimes are finished with public concerts where the audience can hear the results of the teaching. The activity is aimed at young musicians of all ages and levels and can be applied for with any instrument and in any style (classical, jazz, folk, global music). Approximately 25 visits are made during each academic year and teaching visits are planned based on the needs of each hosting community.
Klo 17 Arabic Ensemble and Haneen Choir
Arabic music ensemble is a global music ensemble where students learn to play and understand the repertoire of traditional Arabic music from the eastern Mediterranean region. Haneen Suomi choir is a female singing group which performs traditional Syrian folk songs. It is a branch of the Haneen cultural forum, founded in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on February 2015 on the initiative of Raja Banout.The forum is a group of forcibly displaced Syrian women who have decided to face their pain and suffering with intellectual and cultural empowerment. The project aims to provide its participants with support as well as preserve the Syrian heritage.
In this concert, the students of Arabic music ensemble will perform some songs that they have been working on as part of their ensemble studies and will perform together with Haneen Suomi choir a Syrian folk medley that is part of the choir’s repertoire.
Further details: Minttu Hellstén, minttu.hellsten@uniarts.fi
Global Fest 2022
Global Fest 2022 is the 6th edition of an annual festival featuring students, teachers, alumni and special guests representing Sibelius Academy’s Global Music Department. Bringing together artists from many corners of the world, the Global Music Department focusses on intercultural dialogue and collaboration, creating new artistic work together and fostering a sense of global citizenship. Expect a feast of dynamic, innovative, inspiring concerts and pop up events, featuring performers from around the world celebrating the diversity of our planet.
Featuring performers from diverse corners of the world, including Aruba, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Mozambique, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and USA.