Kuhmo Chamber Music, July 15–28, 2012

It is always a mystery when a succession of sounds becomes a melody and when a succession of melodies becomes a sonata or a quartet.
It is just as difficult to say when a festival programme becomes a programme and not a disparate string of soulless events or a routine catwalk for the famous.

The scope of the 2012 book of sounds and dreams we call a festival is so complex that I hesitated even to give it a title. It could be about God, about visions, about beauty, about how limited we humans can be and how endless the universe.

It could be about legends, remembrance, nature, wisdom, courage and character.
In any case it will be a faithful travelling companion for you and bring us closer, surrounded and brought together by the magic of music.

Welcome to the July 2012 festival. Don’t miss it, for it will never happen again in the same way under the same stars…

Vladimir Mendelssohn
Artistic Director