HELSINKI FESTIVAL

HELSINKI FESTIVAL , founded 1968. This event is held in late August to early September. Internationally known orchestras, ballet companies, chamber groups, and soloists appear, as well as the Helsinki Phiharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony. The festival has commissioned operas and large-scale orchestral and choral works. Seppo Nummi (see NUMMI, SEPPO) was its artistic director from 1969 to 1977, Esa-Pekka Salonen (see SALONEN, ESAPEKKA) from 1995, and in 1997 Risto Nieminen took the...