The Naantali Festival has been running for 28 years. The very finest musicians from all over the world have performed here including world stars such as Vladimir Askenazy and Anne Sophie Mutter. Visiting Orchestras to the festival have included the English Chamber Orchestra.

Cello soloist and Festival director Arto Noras heard Camerata Ireland at the Manchester piano Festival in 2005. He immediately invited the orchestra to the festival and the result has been two wonderful opening concerts for this years festival the second of which has been recorded for radio and will be broadcast in the next few weeks.

The main concert hall is a magnificent medieval abbey which seats 1000 people. Both concerts were near sellouts and very well received. We look forward to a return visit.

Yet again it would not have been possible to give these concerts without the support of Culture Ireland. This assistance has proved invaluable in allowing the orchestra to increase it's international profile and perform at major music festivals such as at Naantali.


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Programme
 
Camerata Ireland
Mozart: Divertimento for Strings in D, K 189
Mozart: Symphony No 29 in A, K 201
Kinsella: Nocturne for Strings
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2

- Camerata Ireland
- Barry Douglas, conductor and piano



Camerata Ireland
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K 488
Tshaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Sibelius: Romance for Strings in C
Mozart: Symphony No 40, K 550

28th Naantali Music Festival, 5 - 17 June, 2007

Once again the Naantali Music Festival will be the first major event in the Finnish music festival summer with the finest concert performances in a sunny seaside milieu. The principal concert venue will be the town's magnificent mediaeval abbey, and the programme will also include several church concerts at various venues in the scenic local archipelago, late evening concerts and a coffee concert at Naantali Spa. The Artistic Director of the festival, Cello Professor Arto Noras, has once again compiled a delightful concert series providing opportunities to hear the most beautiful chamber music.

Leading performers at Naantali this summer will include Fine Arts Quartet, Mihaela Martin, Regis Pasquier, Arve Tellefsen, Elina Vähälä, Jaakko Kuusisto, Frans Helmerson, Arto Noras, Xu Zhong, Ralf Gothóni, Eero Heinonen, Mari Palo, vocal ensemble Rajaton, Korean Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland conducted by Barry Douglas and Sinfonia Lahti conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.