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The Guards Brass Septet, FI
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The Guards Brass Septet from the Guards Band will perform a church concert on Friday, 16 July at 9 pm in the "Katholische Kirche" in Schladming and perform their famous program: "The Guardian Angel"
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| The Guards Brass Septet is an ensemble operating within the Guards Band of the Finnish Defence Forces (Chief Conducter of The Guards Band is Music Major Raine Ampuja). The Septet performs in the traditional line-up of a Finnish brass septet. The Guard’s Brass septet was revived in 1988. The guiding thought behind the band’s work is to cherish the tone of a Finnish brass septet with an enriching approach in mind. The goal is to expand the line-up’s artistic possibilities.
THE FINNISH BRASS SEPTET – SOMETHING UNIQUE FROM FINLAND
Homepage: www.myspace.com/theguardsbrassseptet |
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Music Senior Lieutenant Sami Hannula, conductor, tenor horn- and trombone professional. Mr Hannula has been the first person to graduate from the Sibelius-Academy new wind instrument conductor class. He has been working as a conductor at The Guards Band since 2006.
Mr Hannulas instrument is trombone, and he is one of the founders of Helsinki Brass Quintet. Helsinki Brass Quintet is well- known both domestically and internationally. He has also studied in several institutes; Päijät- Häme Conservatory, Göteborg Music Polytechnic and Sibelius Academy. He has had such instructors as Teppo Alestalo, Ingemar Roos, Kalervo Kulmala, Atso Almila, Kari Tikka, Jorma Panula and Leonid Korchmar. Hannula trains regularly different Brass Bands in Finland. He has also the honour to teach and conduct in Lieksa Brass Week, and in Lohja and Raudaskylä music camps. In addition, Mr Hannula is the chairman of Wind band Music Union of Finland.
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Jouko Harjanne studied the trumpet with Raimo Sarmas at the Tampere Conservatoire and continued after graduating with Henri Adelbrecht and Timofei Dokshitser. Between 1978 and 1984, Harjanne was alternate lead trumpeter with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra; since 1984 he has been a solo trumpeter with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki. Harjanne has played chamber music in many brass and chamber ensembles, including the Finnish Brass Ensemble, the Brasstime Quartet and the Protoventus Ensemble.
Jouko Harjanne's international career has been enhanced by many competition successes, the most important being second place in the Prague Spring Trumpet Series in 1987, and first place in the Ellsworth Smith Trumpet Competition, organised by the International Trumpet Guild in 1990. In l989 he was presented with the Brass Player of the Year award at the Lieksa Brass Week, Finland's most important brass event. Harjanne is now the artistic director of the festival. He has also been much in demand as a player in international brass events. In 1997 Jouko was nominated as an honorary member of the Finnish Trumpet Guild.
Harjanne's solo performances abroad have extended as far as Russia, Japan, Republic of Korea and the USA, as well as Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. He has been a jury member of the numerous international trumpet competitions for example ARD-Munich, Maurice Andre Trumpet Competition, Budapest International Trumpet Competition, Porcia, Prague Spring and naturally Lieksa Brass Week competitions.
Harjanne's career received an additional boost by his performing and recording in England with soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in December l994, and by his performance, to great success, of Rodion Schedrin's new trumpet concertos European premiere in Moscow in autumn 1995. The professional music press has ranked Harjanne among the elite class of international soloists.
Harjanne has made numerous solo recordings. In addition to recording the standard repertoire, Harjanne has gained a reputation for the recording of what are considered the trumpet's most difficult works (e.g. the Zimmermann, Gruner, Nagao, Schedrin and Jolivet concertos). In addition to his recordings, he has performed in numerous productions for radio and TV.
At the age of 26, Jouko Harjanne began teaching at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; he has also held a number of master classes in Finland and abroad
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Visit MID EUROPE 2010 in the mountainous city SCHLADMING |
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The total winners of the CISM & Mid Europe - International Youth Wind Orchestra Competition finally receive their price! |
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Haus im Ennstal will be again a partner village of the Mid Europe in 2011! There will be open airs organized at the Schloßgarten in Haus! |
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CISM & Mid Europe International Youth Wind Orchestra Competition |
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World Wind Orchestra Project 2011 - musicial highlights with intercultural exchanges! |
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Mid Instruments & More 2010 - music fair at the Mid Europe |
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