About the festival
The association Encanto Music is the responsible organiser of the festival. One of the main objectives of the association, in addition to arranging vibrant interdisciplinary art events, is to create a framework for cooperation between artists from different countries. New ideas are created at the boundaries and we get to experience surprising things – sometimes successful, sometimes colliding. Friction surfaces cause sparks, throwing us in new directions.
The first festival under the name Encanto Festival in 2014 was planned by Vappu Helasvuo, Laura Kajander and Thomas Pitt. The artistic director of the three following festivals was the German baroque violinist Georg Kallweit, who has continued to work remotely in the artistic planning team after that. From 2019 onward, the artistic planning team has consisted of Marianna Henriksson, Laura Kajander, Anthony Marini and Lea Pekkala.
Beginning in 2020, the name of the festival has been Helsinki Early Music Festival and the main partner has been the Finnish Baroque Orchestra (FiBO), which also performs in many of the concerts. Encanto Music’s activities besides the festivals are presented of the web page encanto.fi.
You can find more information about the Finnish Baroque Orchestra on FiBO’s web page!
The members of the festival’s artistic planning committee are Marianna Henriksson, Laura Kajander, Anthony Marini and Lea Pekkala.
Previous festivals:
2014 Helsinki: Encanto Festival ”I said it in music”
2016 Kauniainen: Encanto Festival ”What I love”
2017 Kauniainen and Helsinki: Encanto Festival ”Conflict and resolution”
2018 Helsinki and Kauniainen: Encanto Festival ”Beauty and melancholy”
2018 Helsinki: mini festival in salon style
2019 Helsinki: Encanto Festival "Risata e pianto"
2020 Helsinki: Helsinki Early Music Festival "Dream"
2021 Helsinki: Helsinki Early Music Festival "Harvest"
2022 Helsinki: Helsinki Early Music Festival "Story and movement"
2023 Helsinki: Helsinki Early Music Festival "X"
Keywords
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