Pauliina Haustein – Love at first hearing
The return of improvisation to classical music.
The Finnish cellist Pauliina Haustein and her ensemble will come to the Helsinki Music Centre to demonstrate the return of classical improvisation to the international concert culture. Haustein, who graduated as a Doctor of Music from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, has studied classical improvisation in solo and chamber music since 2016, learning from the world’s leading classic improvisors, with the support of the Finnish Kone Foundation and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
The concert invites everyone to experience how risk-taking and having fun associated with improvisation can affect the interaction between performers and the public – and the sharing of the ultimate message of music.
Programme
The concert will include familiar composers from Bach to Ukrainian romantic Gliére, improvisations in line with their style combined to the compositions, and independent improvisation formats from different periods of classical music.
Using the techniques Haustein applied in her doctoral project, the four-person ensemble will introduce approaches by which musicians and singers with classical training can restore improvisation skills that used to belong to all musicians and bring them to the concert and performance practices of Western art music.
Performers
- Pauliina Haustein, cello
- Adaya Peled, soprano
- Simone Strohmeier, violin
- Stefanie Tuurna, piano
Additional information: Eeva Hohti, eeva.hohti@uniarts.fi
The Finnish cellist Pauliina Haustein and her ensemble will come to the Helsinki Music Centre to demonstrate the return of classical improvisation to the international concert culture. Haustein, who graduated as a Doctor of Music from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, has studied classical improvisation in solo and chamber music since 2016, learning from the world’s leading classic improvisors, with the support of the Finnish Kone Foundation and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.
The concert invites everyone to experience how risk-taking and having fun associated with improvisation can affect the interaction between performers and the public – and the sharing of the ultimate message of music.
Programme
The concert will include familiar composers from Bach to Ukrainian romantic Gliére, improvisations in line with their style combined to the compositions, and independent improvisation formats from different periods of classical music.
Using the techniques Haustein applied in her doctoral project, the four-person ensemble will introduce approaches by which musicians and singers with classical training can restore improvisation skills that used to belong to all musicians and bring them to the concert and performance practices of Western art music.
Performers
- Pauliina Haustein, cello
- Adaya Peled, soprano
- Simone Strohmeier, violin
- Stefanie Tuurna, piano
Additional information: Eeva Hohti, eeva.hohti@uniarts.fi