Finnish Baroque Orchestra has many plans with nordic partners. Some of those are introduced in Nordic Baroque Scene -website. Some results can be heard in Helsinki Early Music Festival. Few questions to Mari Giske, viola player of Barokkanerne from Norway:

What new ideas/inspirations/support have You got from our online-meetings during this Year?

It has been refreshingly inspirational to meet up online and get to know colleagues who struggle with the same problems as we do, but still find the energy to be creative and optimistic about the future. It is therapeutic to plan for such a wonderful abundance of lovely music and exciting collaborations in these otherwise dreary times.

How is Your orchestra surviving with corona?

We were lucky and had a busy summer, but otherwise it has been difficult as we’re engaging our artistic leaders from abroad, which means that even streaming of projects has been difficult to do. So it has been a lot of planning, re-scheduling and finally cancelling of projects. We’ll hopefully survive financially with the help and understanding from our government, but many of our musicians have a really hard time. 

What do You expect from our artistic co-operation when we get there after so much organizing?

We’re so looking forward to get to know our colleagues from Finland and Sweden, to play lovely music together, exchange more ideas and experiences, and to have a really good time.