With the money, Vivo organizes a four-day training camp and holds two concerts.
In the year The youth orchestra Vivo, founded in 1986, has received an extension after the funding ran out.
Conductor Mikko Franck donates 75,000 euros to the orchestra’s activities. It covers this year’s activities.
Franck told about it For public radio. He is a former musician and artistic director of the orchestra.
life office manager Auli Numminen confirm the matter to HS.
“Our activities would have ended in the November period if Mikko had not come as a rescuer.”
Vivo is a full-scale youth symphony orchestra that operates on a periodical basis. The average age is about 18 years. The majority of players are high school students or full-time music students. The next auditions are in February.
“With Mikko’s donation, we will hold a four-day training camp in April for the summer program. As part of the camp, the children of Riihimäki Music College get to practice next to the musician of their instrument and experience what it is like to play in an orchestra,” says Numminen.
In the summer, the orchestra plays its former artistic director at the Heinävesi music festival Erkki Lasonpalon under. He also conducts the joint concert of Vivo and the Mikkeli City Orchestra to be held in the fall.
Vivo managed for a long time mainly with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, but the change in the Youth Act led to the end of the support.
For the four years until 2021, the Jane and Aatos Erko Foundation’s fixed-term bridge funding was used. So far, no more permanent funding base has been found.