Fiskars Summer Festival 2026

A warm welcome to the 7th edition of the Fiskars Summer Festival!

This summer marks the seventh installment of the Fiskars Summer Festival, welcoming audiences back to the unique setting of historic Fiskars village. Centered around an intensive masterclass for emerging conductors and a mentorship programme for young instrumentalists, our festival offers a wide selection of orchestral and chamber music concerts, performed by our talented students alongside their world-class mentors and a distinguished lineup of soloists.

Our Open House concert this year is the Young conductors’ concert on Friday, July 31st, where the conducting students of the annual masterclass will lead the acclaimed Fiskars Festival Orchestra in a programme of Mozart, Sibelius, Britten and Beethoven. The two soloists of the concert are rising Finnish star violinist Otto Antikainen, and one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, Karen Cargill.

The final concert of the festival on Saturday, August 1st will be held once again at the Threshing House of Fiskars. On the podium will be Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting a programme of Beethoven, Tarkiainen, Wagner and Dvořák, with Karen Cargill performing as the soloist in Wagner’s famous Wesendock Lieder (1857–58).

PROGRAMME:

Kuparipaja 28.7.2026
Opening Concert & Dinner
It’s Almost All about Tchaikovsky those Italian holidays…

Rossini: String Sonata No. 1 (12’)
Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovky, op. 35a (12’)
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence (35’)

Lukaali 30.7.2026
Chamber music concert
9+10+5 = 3 great chamber works

Mustonen: String Nonet No. 2 (15’)
Bernard: Divertissement (23’)
Intermission (15’)
Beethoven: String Quintet in C op. 29 (33’)

KWUM 31.7.2026
Chamber music concert
A French Sandwich with an Austrian Filling

Ibert: Deux Mouvements (7’)
Pépin: Feuilles d’Eau de Silvacane (18’)
Mozart: Oboe Quartet (14’)
Debussy: Trio (19’)

Puimala 31.7.2026 – Free entry!
Young Conductors’ Showcase / Open House
Sparkling Wit and Dark Spells

Mozart: Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (5’)
Sibelius: Six Humoresques (21’)
Britten: Britten: A Charm of Lullabies (13’)
Intermission (20’)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 (28’)

Puimala 1.8.2026
Festival Finale klo 19:00

L. van Beethoven: Egmont Overture (8’)
R. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder with Karen Cargill (21’)
O. Tarkiainen: Ring of Fire and Love (10’)

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A. Dvořák: Symphony No 7 (35’)

Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

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