Below you can download the current schedule (v18) and as we approaching the start of the ESS Finland 2024 Summer School the schedule is not expected to change anymore. Some details, e.g. room allocations or talk times, may still have to be amended on short notice. We will have annoucements in the morning if that happens and there will be a current schedule on display at the venue.
Last updated: 23 July 2024 ** UPDATED RECENTLY **
Concerts
Before, during, and after this year’s ESS Summer School, there will be a few concerts organised with shakuhachi teachers and students. This year, the ESS have also commissioned composer Marty Regan to write a new group piece for this year’s Summer School, which will be premiered in one of the concerts. Read below for more details!
Before the summer school
Wednesday 24 July 2024 – Riley Lee solo concert
If you are arriving early in Finland for the ESS Summer School, don’t miss Riley Lee who is playing a solo concert on Wednesday 24. July at 6pm.
Location: Östersundom Church (Kappelintie 65, 00890 Helsinki, Finland)
During the summer school
Monday 29 July 2024 – Open Mic Concert
Any participants on the Summer School can sign up for a slot on the day. This participants’ concert has an open programme and reflects our community and its diversity!
Location: The Friendship Inn
Tuesday 30 July 2024 – Teachers’ Concert
In this concert, the teachers and workshops leaders at the ESS Summer School will perform on stage. Details of the programme will be announced nearer the time.
Location: Salo Church 19h30 (Kirkkokatu 7, 24100 Salo, Finland)
With special support from Salo City
Programme:
Thorsten Knaub – Mukaiji (KSK honkyoku) 8 min
Hélène Seiyu Codjo – Roro no shirabe (composed by Fukuda Teruhisa) 8 min
Otto Eskelinen – Kudari-ha (Zensabō honkyoku) 4 min
Riley Lee and Sakari Heikka – Two Duets From Isley Royale (composed by Elisabeth Brown) 7 min
Aaro Haavisto – Ayatsuri Ningyō (Ueda-ryū honkyoku) 7min
Emmanuelle Rouaud – Makiri, for shakuhachi solo (composed by Yokoyama Katsuya) 6 min
Gunnar Jinmei Linder and Naoko Kikuchi – Aki no Kyoko (composed by Yoshizawa Kengyō II for koto & vocals) 14 min
Kiku Day – Yoshiya no Kyoku (Fuke Myōan shakuhachi) 7 min
Riley Lee and Gunnar Jinmei Linder – Shika no Tōne (Kinko-ryū honkyoku) 10 min
Yasunori Tani – Yuki no Yoru (Ueda-ryū honkyoku) 10min
Wednesday 31 July 2024 – Sibelius Museum
This concert will include performances by teachers at the Summer School, as well as a World Premiere of a new ESS commission, which is a composition written by Marty Regan specifically for this summer school. Another World Premiere for shakuhachi, electric guitar, and include electronics is by composer Henri Algadafe.
Location: Sibelius Museum 19h00 (Piispankatu 17, 20500 Turku, Finland)
Programme:
Hélène Seiyu Codjo – Acceptance 4 min
Otto Eskelinen and Sakari Heikka – Soittajapaimen (Arrangement of Finnish folk song) 4 min
Emmanuelle Rouaud and Henri Algadafe (guitar) – Contraction, Expansion, Resolution ou les Rêveries Cosmologiques d’un Promeneur égaré’ (Contraction, Expansion, Resolution or the Cosmological Musings of a Lost Walker).
for shakuhachi, electric guitar and electronics. World premiere 16 min
Kiku Day – Daiotsu-gaeshi 7 min
Naoko Kikuchi – Kotona (composed by Tomi Raisanen, 2022) 14 min
String quartet for koto, violin, viola, cello here performed in the koto solo version.
Riley Lee – San’ya (Three Valleys) 8 min
Gunnar Jinmei Linder and Naoko Kikuchi – Sato no Haru (composed by Kikuoka Kengyō for shamisen + vocals) 14 min
Teachers and Participants – Echoes of the Taiga (composed by Marty Regan, 2024) 9 min
Yasunori Tani – Ochiba 10 min
Thursday 1 August 2024 – Students’ Concert
This concert will be open to students from the Summer School to perform. After four days of intense study, we all meet and share our new skills and experiences we gathered from the workshops and lessons.
Location: The Friendship Inn
After the summer school
Friday 2 August 2024 : Post-Summer School Concert
And last but not least… some of our Summer School guests will give a final performance in Helsinki on Friday 2 August 2024 at 6pm at Roihuvuori Church, which is cultural hot spot in Eastern Helsinki. More details of the programme will be announced nearer the time.
Location: Roihuvuori Church (Tulisuontie 2, 00820 Helsinki, Finland)
ESS Commission: Marty Regan
The ESS is thrilled to announce a special commission for this year’s Summer School in Finland: We asked world renowned composer Marty Regan to create a special group composition for Finland 2024 which will have its World Premiere in the Sibelius Museum in Turku. This new work will be performed by teachers and participants of the Summer School and we welcome players who will take part at the Summer School to participate and join us in performing this year.
Marty Regan will join the Summer School in person and will oversee rehearsals and the premiere. The concert in Turku is on the third evening of the Summer School so there is time to rehearse for everyone who will participate.
Marty will also present a talk and, being the main organiser of the World Shakuhachi Festival in Texas in 2025, will be sharing more details about the major shakuhachi event coming up next April.