The choir from Finland will sing in Kazan romances by Yakhin and Tatar folk songs

26.04. 2016

April 27, 2016, with the support of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan  the  S. Saidash  State Concert Hall will host a concert  of the  choir "Echo Otaniemi" (Finland). Guests from Helsinki will perform "Finnish Tchaikovsky" - Jean Sibelius, as well as songs   by  Rustem Yakhina and adaption of  Tatar folk songs. The concert titled "Choral echo. Finland - Tatarstan "will also  to be joined  by the  State Chamber Choir of the Republic of Tatarstan: at  the end of the evening   the two collectives together will perform first  Finnish folk, then the Tatar folk songs. The concert begins at 18.30.

The choir "Echo Otaniemi" (artistic director - Tapani Lance) will perform in the first part of the evening. It is expected that the guests   of Tatarstan  will  present to the public romances    by  R.Yakhin  "Ber genya syuz", "Kerim alye urmannarga", Tatar folk songs "Ber Alma bishkya byulyek", "Achy Kyozge zhillyardya", "Ak Kaen", "Achma tyaryazyane" and also sing romances by J. Sibelius "Boat trip", "Humoresque", "Imitating the voice", "Song of my heart", "Finland".

RT State Chamber Choir under the direction of Milyausha Tamindarova, in turn, will perform works by G. Sviridov, P. Tchaikovsky, the Jewish prayer, Islamic nasheed, nagaybaksky  songs of the Crimean Tatars, Cossack  romance.

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Winner of the I prize at the International Choral Competition. Franz Schubert in Vienna Men's Choir "Echo Otaniemi» (Otaniemen Kaiku) was founded in 2002 on the basis of the Polytechnic University in Helsinki. The participants of the collective become graduates - specialists in the field of engineering sciences,  head of the choir  -  a composer, a musicologist and writer Lance Tapani. Choir's name is associated with the peninsula Otaniemi, where since the mid XX century is the main building, a library and student campus of the Helsinki University of Technology. It is interesting that its   history  the university    starts  since 1849, when the decree of Emperor Nicholas I in the Finnish capital,  the first real technical school  opened.

Along with the performance of the Finnish folk music, the choir "Echo Otaniemi" uses in its repertoire Tatar folklore, which  is  carefully explored and arranged, finding surprising similarities with the Finnish musical tradition (it is known that in Finland over half centuries home to a large Tatar Diaspora, on the one hand fully integrated into European society, on the other - preserving their national identity). In addition, the collective "Echo Otaniemi" promotes creativity if J.  Sibelius, introducing the music of their outstanding  compatriot in different parts of Europe (including symphonic works - with the famous Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste).