Uniarts Helsinki invites you to a captivating series of events celebrating a diverse array of artistic expressions. From the 40th annual Bach Week featuring the legendary Helsinki Chamber Strings to thought-provoking performances like 'Blurring the Boundaries' and 'Tell me a story from before I can remember,' each showcase promises a unique journey into the heart of creativity. With events spanning from January to May 2025, this season offers something for everyone, fostering a community where art and culture thrive.

Uniarts Helsinki: Celebrating Creativity Across Time and Borders

Uniarts Helsinki invites you to a series of enthralling events in 2025, showcasing a diverse array of performances and lectures by students and experts alike. From the grand 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Chamber Strings' Bach Week to riveting student matinees and high-stakes violin competitions, there’s an experience for everyone at Music House and beyond. Join notable performers like Kumi Shimozaki and Jukka Myllys as they take center stage in this cultural celebration. Navigate philosophical conversations and innovative choreographies across this vibrant tapestry of the arts.

A Harmonious Celebration: Uniarts Helsinki's 2025 Cultural Extravaganza

This time, NYKY Ensemble presents a concert based on the exploration of spaces between matter – materials, instruments; the physicality – bodies, those of performers, composers, living beings; and freedom – the path and the challenges of finding freedom with and from a musical instrument, within a creative space as well as society.

NYKY Ensemble: matter–body–freedom

Music House

Bachelor's degree concert: Petar Vladimirov, violin

Beauty and the Beast

Helsinki City Theatre

Bed­room Dances

The Theatre Academy Helsinki

Bachelor's degree concert: Anni Pelkonen, accordion

Small hall Helsinki

Sydän­ten talo

Then the polyester touches your sweaty skin and you give in to the temptation

Uniarts Helsinki

Isolde

Sadelilja Larimo’s artistic level performance examination

Sadelilja Larimo, vocals

Concert hall Helsinki

Fragments of a true story will unfold through a journey you are invited to undertake in this performance / installation. The fragments are part of a personal account by the artist Paria Mohajerani who is trying to remember the participation in “Woman, Life, Freedom” revolution in 2022 in Iran.

Blur­ring the Bound­aries: Sto­ries on a Rev­o­lu­tion

Vapaan Taiteen Tila

What remains when the usual and the unfamiliar dissolve? How do we navigate through the layers of time in the urban spaces we inhabit?

Tell me a story from be­fore I can re­mem­ber

Baroque mu­sic for 1-4 vi­o­lins

With a text inspired by the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson (writer of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), and scored for chamber orchestra, Argento’s opera includes enjoyable references to operetta, cabaret… and Wagner! Moments of poignant connection are interspersed with surreal solo revelations and unbridled group outbursts.

The Sibelius Acad­emy Opera: Post­card from Mo­rocco

Näytelmäte­hdas

Kom-Theatre Support Association

Students of classical music in Sibelius Junior Academy perform

Mati­nee of the Sibelius Ju­nior Acad­emy

Sininen uni – Piinkova roadtrip Lahesta Huippuvuorille 

The Old Juko Theatre

The Sibelius Academy choirs and Symphony Orchestra will be performing Faurè’s Requiem and Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony

Eter­nal rest and new life: Fau­ré’s Re­quiem and Mahler’s “Res­ur­rec­tion” Sym­phony

Organ music through time

The vocal music studio and Liedstudio are courses of the Sibelius Academy’s departments in vocal music and piano in which the students practice vocal chamber music and perform as a party to a duo. The concerts included in the course are open to the public, and everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the performances of the duos.

Vo­cal mu­sic stu­dio and Lied­stu­dio con­cert

Sibelius Academy

Bakkhan­tit

Q-Theatre Association

The last two days on this island. The last two days of its quiet fury. And the humans – they always take two more days!

Two More Days

Stu­dent mati­nee in Mu­sic Cen­tre

The degree programme in early music will be presenting two concerts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of what has become the legendary Helsinki Chamber Strings’ Bach Week.

Bach Week 40 years!

Experience an enchanting concert with our symphonic wind ensemble, combining the impressive harmonies of “Nachtmusik” and Hugo Alfvén’s breathtaking “Bergakungen”.

Siba Winds and Jukka Myllys: Enchanting night

Beller’s research “Collateralizing Damage: On the Creation of a New Asset Class (and the Consequences for Revolutionary Strategy)” explores how financial forces shape media ecology, arguing that AI functions as a medium that processes social relations while generating new assets.

Visiting Experts: Jonathan Beller

Choreography as an invitation to meet, connecting philosophy, traditions and contemporary practices.

The Feast

The Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition has established itself as one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world. Founded in 1965, the competition is held every five years and is open to violinists aged 30 or under at the time of the competition. Since the first winner, Oleg Kagan, the winners of the first Sibelius Competition have made remarkable soloist careers.

In­ter­na­tional Jean Sibelius Vi­o­lin Com­pe­ti­tion, sec­ond round

16 fragments, a la: Why flesh Why Standing Why Wednesday at noon Love is always when is always You is always always always Always Always

Rev Div Luv

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Vis­it­ing Ex­perts: Nicole Fleet­wood

The dance performance “2 X 2” by the Ihanat Company is built around two duets, each inspired by encountering the other dancer through movement and dancing together. In the choreographic process, the experience of dancing together has been explored through a variation of mirror exercises, touch, and working with various fabric materials. The long-term process has given rise to two unique, improvisation-based duets that, in “2 X 2,” are layered side by side, intertwined, and overlapping. The choreography takes shape anew, in part, with each performance event.

Uniarts Helsinki

Mar 22 - May 10, 2025

Matinee of the Sibelius Junior Academy

Apr 10 - May 8, 2025

Beauty and the Beast

Jan 23 - May 8, 2025

Bach Week 40 years!

Jan 31 - May 8, 2025

Student matinee in Music Centre

May 8, 2025

Siba Winds and Jukka Myllys: Enchanting night

Apr 23, 2025

NYKY Ensemble: matter–body–freedom

Apr 15, 2025

Bachelor's degree concert: Petar Vladimirov, violin

Articles & News

Uniarts Helsinki

Uniarts Helsinki

Mar 22 - May 10, 2025

Mati­nee of the Sibelius Ju­nior Acad­emy

Apr 10 - May 8, 2025

Beauty and the Beast

Jan 23 - May 8, 2025

Bach Week 40 years!

Jan 31 - May 8, 2025

Stu­dent mati­nee in Mu­sic Cen­tre

May 8, 2025

Siba Winds and Jukka Myllys: Enchanting night

Apr 23, 2025

NYKY Ensemble: matter–body–freedom

Apr 15, 2025

Bachelor's degree concert: Petar Vladimirov, violin

Articles & News

Uniarts Helsinki

Matinee of the Sibelius Junior Academy

Student matinee in Music Centre