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Select the country and object's type Kuhmo Chamber Music in Helsinki in May Cooperation with the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and the Punavuori Chamber Music Association

The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art and Kuhmo Chamber Music have gone into partnership: accompanying the opening of the Kiasma exhibition of work by Marja Kanervo on May 16 will be Kuhmo music.

Marja Kanervo is a pioneer of Finnish transitory and installation art and is creating a work that incorporates the museum’s architecture, removing paint from the wall to reveal the layered deposits of time. Her exhibition will be on at Kiasma from May 17 to September 29.

The opening will include a breath of Kuhmo Chamber Music: Juha T. Koskinen’s Mima for three violins, and the Bach-Beethoven Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (Das wohltemperierte Klavier). These will be performed by Antti Tikkanen, Minna Pensola and Maija Linkola (violin), Vladimir Mendelssohn (viola) and Tomas Djupsjöbacka (cello).

Kuhmo Chamber Music will also be present in Helsinki the following day, May 17. The programme for the concert beginning at 7 pm at the Astoria Hall consists of the Bach-Mozart Prelude and Fugue in D Minor KV 404a/1, Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 and the Bach-Beethoven Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. Performing them will be the Meta4 Quartet and Vladimir Mendelssohn. The concert will be held in collaboration with PuKaMa (the Punavuori Chamber Music Association).

Tickets (€25/18.50) for the Astoria Hall can be purchased in advance from the Kuhmo office, tel. +358 8 652 0936 or at kuhmo.festival@kuhmofestival.fi and one hour beforehand at the door.

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