**Waitlist Only** Shared Memories
Fri 20 Nov 2026, 7PM

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For his final concert as ANAM Artistic Director, Paavali Jumppanen brings together four composers united by their fascination with Finnish and Hungarian folk music. Shared Memories traces how these traditions have shaped some of the most distinctive voices of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The program opens with Outi Tarkiainen’s Sensory Flashbacks, written for piano, strings and clarinet, drawing on fragments of Finnish folk melodies and transforming them through shifting harmonies and textures in a contemporary echo of the country's musical past. George Enescu’s Chamber Symphony follows, written near the end of his life, where lyricism and counterpoint meet the same folk influences that connect him to Bartók. ANAM pianists then perform Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Fiddlers, drawn from Finnish village dance tunes.

The concert concludes with Béla Bartók’s Piano Quintet, an early work that captures the composer on the verge of discovering the folk idioms that would define his mature style. 

Shared Memories marks a farewell for Paavali Jumppanen, who throughout his tenure has built meaningful connections between cultures, composers and musicians with clarity and care.

Outi TARKIAINEN Sensory Flashbacks 
George ENESCU Chamber Symphony 
Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA Fiddlers (piano version)
Bela BARTÓK Piano Quintet 

Paavali Jumppanen (ANAM Artistic Director) piano
ANAM Musicians

Duration: approximately 2 hours (includes a 20-minute interval) 

 The position of ANAM Artistic Director is supported by Janet Holmes à Court AC and the late John and Rosemary Macleod.

Image credit: Laura Manariti