Multi-instrumentalist, composer and all-around artist Marzi Nyman, long-standing Artistic Partner of the Tapiola Sinfonietta and an audience favourite, presents a new concerto written for his favourite orchestra, featuring a solo instrument extremely rare in the classical repertoire: the electric guitar.
Marzi Nyman, electric guitar
Kaija Saariaho: Lichtbogen
Brett Dean: Carlo
Marzi Nyman: Electric Guitar Concerto, world premiere
The Electricity! concert transports the listener into a space charged with sound and light. Throughout the evening, energy flows, intensifies, and erupts—from subtle vibrations toward powerful expression.
Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen was inspired by the Arctic sky and the Northern Lights. Lasers highlight the music’s subtle movements.
Brett Dean’s Carlo is linked to the life of composer Carlo Gesualdo—a man who murdered his wife and her lover. The work carries the shadow of this violent act, in which the presence of the dead is felt and moves.
The evening culminates in the world premiere of Marzi Nyman’s electric guitar concerto, where energy takes on a physical form. Electric sound, rhythm, and virtuosity fill the space. Light and lasers pulse in time with the music, gathering power and releasing it as an intense movement that permeates the entire space.
Light and lasers also carry another layer throughout the evening: they embody traces, memories, and the spirits of the dead that linger in the space alongside the music. The concert unfolds as an arc and opens up as a holistic experience where sound, light, and space merge into one.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and all-around artist Marzi Nyman, long-standing Artistic Partner of the Tapiola Sinfonietta and an audience favourite, presents a new concerto written for his favourite orchestra, featuring a solo instrument extremely rare in the classical repertoire: the electric guitar. In recent years, Marzi has been moving into the realm of art music with the orchestra, and the new Concerto takes it up a notch. Marzi is a skilled orchestrator and a virtuoso on his own instrument, which raises great expectations for this new work – but we must also expect the unexpected! The Concerto is programmed, appropriately, in the Indie series.
Afterparty in the foyer following the concert.
