Erica Back

Mezzo-soprano

Jan
30
7:00 PM19:00

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A versatile program consisting of pieces for female choir by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Bengt Johansson and Knut Nystedt among others. The commissioned piece ‘Klage’ (R.M. Rilke) for mezzo-soprano and female choir by Ulf Långbacka will also have its premiere performance this evening.

Erica Back, soloist
Tuula Hällström, piano
Hanna Kronqvist, conductor
Eviva-kören, female choir

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Nov
17
5:00 PM17:00

Missa Silvestris

Premiere performance of the commissioned piece ‘Missa Silvestris’ for mezzo-soprano, male choir and organ by Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas.

Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Kari Turunen, conductor
Akademiska Sångföreningen, choir

Tickets available HERE

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Oct
12
7:00 PM19:00

We love Bach!

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The final concert of Vaasa Baroque Festival anno 2018!

Program:
Magnificat in D major
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Katariina Heikkilä, mezzo-soprano
Leif Aruhn-Solén, tenor
Aarne Pelkonen, baritone

Kajsa Dahlbäck, conductor
Kreeta-Maria Kentala, concert master
Vaasa City Orchestra
Vaasa Baroque Ensemble

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Jul
25
7:00 PM19:00

Gounod: Faust (Siebel)

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe
NN, Méphisto

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jul
20
7:00 PM19:00

Gounod: Faust (Siebel)

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jul
19
7:00 PM19:00

Tähtien konsertti

The winners of the singing competition in Kangasniemi through the years.

Riikka Hakola, soprano
Sirkka Parviainen, soprano
Sirkka Lamminen, soprano
Mia Heikkinen, soprano
Pauliina Linnosaari, soprano
Miina-Liisa Värelä, soprano,
Anu Ontronen, mezzo-soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Maiju Vaahtoluoto, mezzo-soprano
Iida Antola, soprano
Tuula Hällström, piano
Hans-Otto Ehrström, piano
 

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Jul
16
7:00 PM19:00

Gounod: Faust (Siebel)

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jul
11
7:00 PM19:00

Gounod: Faust (Siebel)

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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Jul
7
7:00 PM19:00

Gounod: Faust (Siebel)

Jesus Garcia, Faust
Marjukka Tepponen/Tuuli Takala, Marguerite
Ville Rusanen, Valentin
Petri Lindroos/Tuomas Pursio, Méphisto
Jussi Merikanto, Wagner
Erica Back, Siebel
Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Vilppu Kiljunen, stage director
Phillipe Auguin, conductor
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Choir

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May
31
7:00 PM19:00

Recital: Songs of Travel

Tales of travel and journeys - physical, metaphysical, psychological and emotional - are interwoven to explore some of the most profound aspects of human nature. The program features the Finnish premiere of Australian composer Andrew Ford's 'In Transit' for piano and speaker. The work is a collection of short movements that combine the composer’s observations, thoughts and fragments of overheard conversations that have occurred during his travels in Australia, Finland the UK and the USA. Originally composed for pianist and narrator, this often humorous and poignant work is performed here in a version for speaking pianist. Having become increasingly interested in the ways in which the spoken word can enrich music and vice versa, Aura Go has compiled her own arrangement of selections from Oscar Wilde’s powerful and harrowing letter De Profundis and music of Sibelius, Sitsky, Crumb and Rzewski. She is then joined by mezzo-soprano Erica Back for Vaughan Williams’ timeless cycle, 'Songs of Travel', to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Music by Ford, Sitsky, Crumb, Rzewski, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. Words by Ford, Wilde and Stevenson.

Aura Go, speaking pianist
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano

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