Global Fest: VOLVER SIGUIENDO (Return in Continuation)
You are invited to an unrepeatable, acoustic, and intimate concert featuring original and unpublished works — a contemporary vision of tradition, composition, and song.
Manu Rosales is a composer, guitarist, and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His music is deeply rooted in the song composition traditions of Buenos Aires, reflecting the multitude of South American and Global influences that orbit within that cosmopolitan city. VOLVER SIGUIENDO reveals a concert that considers both tradition and identity as a living and unfinished process, where Manu’s musicality is intertwined with that of his guest musicians through a proposal of collective creation.
The songs and instrumental pieces of Return in Continuation create a space to listen to the present of Manu’s artistic craft and vision.
Knowing that returning is impossible, and that the past always lives within what continues, this concert becomes a photography of transformation, a present moment that looks both backward and forward, expressing the vitality that emerges from living and creating alongside inspiring artists from different corners of the globe.
Performers
- Manu Rosales: Guitar, voice
- João Lopes: Pecussion set
- Melisa Yıldırım: Kamancha
- Javier Navarro Lara: Double bass, voice
- Marcelo Chacur Politano: Alto sax, quena, pífano
- Stephanie Kobori: Voice, clarinet
- Merve Abdurrahmani: Piano, voice
Changes are possible.
Further information: Jannika Lahin, jannika.lahin@uniarts.fi
Global Fest
Global Fest 2025 is the 10th 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 artistic 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.
This year’s festival also includes a special symposium supported by the Pacius fund, within the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. The theme of this year’s symposium is (Re)imagining diversity and difference as core strengths of a thriving cultural field in Finland. A special Pacius fund prize will be announced and awarded as part of the symposium.
Manu Rosales is a composer, guitarist, and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His music is deeply rooted in the song composition traditions of Buenos Aires, reflecting the multitude of South American and Global influences that orbit within that cosmopolitan city. VOLVER SIGUIENDO reveals a concert that considers both tradition and identity as a living and unfinished process, where Manu’s musicality is intertwined with that of his guest musicians through a proposal of collective creation.
The songs and instrumental pieces of Return in Continuation create a space to listen to the present of Manu’s artistic craft and vision.
Knowing that returning is impossible, and that the past always lives within what continues, this concert becomes a photography of transformation, a present moment that looks both backward and forward, expressing the vitality that emerges from living and creating alongside inspiring artists from different corners of the globe.
Performers
- Manu Rosales: Guitar, voice
- João Lopes: Pecussion set
- Melisa Yıldırım: Kamancha
- Javier Navarro Lara: Double bass, voice
- Marcelo Chacur Politano: Alto sax, quena, pífano
- Stephanie Kobori: Voice, clarinet
- Merve Abdurrahmani: Piano, voice
Changes are possible.
Further information: Jannika Lahin, jannika.lahin@uniarts.fi
Global Fest
Global Fest 2025 is the 10th 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 artistic 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.
This year’s festival also includes a special symposium supported by the Pacius fund, within the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. The theme of this year’s symposium is (Re)imagining diversity and difference as core strengths of a thriving cultural field in Finland. A special Pacius fund prize will be announced and awarded as part of the symposium.