NEWS
Warm thanks for the past year!
In 2025, Kimito Island celebrated its 700th anniversary, and it was wonderful to share this milestone with you through music. We warmly thank our audiences, artists, volunteers, and partners for all the moments we experienced together. At the same time, we are already looking ahead to next summer and the Kimito Music Festival 2026.
Opening Concert 2026 – collaboration with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra continues
This past summer, we heard Lara Poe’s fantastic commissioned work, premiered by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. Next year, we are delighted to continue this excellent collaboration. In the festival’s opening concert, the audience will experience a dialogue between baroque and contemporary music, as baroque repertoire is combined with a new commissioned work by Paola Livorsi. The opening concert will take place, according to festival tradition, on Tuesday at 7:00 pm in Kimito Church.
A winter journey in the nuances of tenor and guitar
Schubert’s Winterreise will be presented in a new and intimate interpretation. Tenor Tuomas Katajala and guitarist Petri Kumela bring the listener closer to the work through a sensitive guitar arrangement that opens up its poetic world in a subtle and compelling way.
Kumela’s arrangement preserves the work’s original structure, while the guitar’s sound world offers a fresh perspective. The result is a performance that is both faithful to the original and boldly distinctive. The concert will take place on Wednesday, July 8, at 7:00 pm in Karuna Church.
Give the gift of a musical experience at Kimito Island Music Festival 2026
Gift cards for the Kimito Island Music Festival are a perfect present for anyone who loves music and the beautiful archipelago surroundings. Gift cards can be purchased by email from the festival and later redeemed for tickets to the Kimito Island Music Festival, held July 6–12, 2026. You choose the amount, and the recipient chooses the concert or concert package they prefer.
Order gift cards by email at musikfestspel@kimf.fi.
Gift cards are primarily delivered electronically.