The teachers and their friends from Turku Conservatory will give three concerts in Sigyn Hall on Sunday 30 November 2025. The concerts consist of classical guitar music, violin-piano duo and piano duet.

The final day of the Diamond Series begins at 14:00 with guitarist Patrik Kleemola performing classical guitar treasures from three centuries. From Fernando Sor’s evocative early Romantic guitar pieces to Manuel Ponce’s monumental La folia suite with variations and the final guitar sonata from 2019, composed for Kleemola by Mikko Heiniö.

The concert with violinist Markku Jokinen and pianist Tommi Pounusaari starts at 16.00. For the third time, the artists have explored the shelves of the Turku Conservatory Library. The unique programme idea is called “Recycling Concert No. 3”. The composers behind this time’s discoveries of vocal and instrumental music are Henry Purcell, Joaquin Nin, Max Reger, Gioacchino Rossini, Ottorino Respighi, Antonio Veretti, Joaquin Turina and Paolo Tosti.

The Diamond Series concludes at 18.00 with a concert by PianoDuo ConFuego, featuring pianists Maria Männikkö and Pauli Kari performing together and separately. The opening number is Alexander Borodin’s Polovetian Dances from the opera Prince Igor. In an arrangement for two pianos, the pianos mimic the colourful world of the orchestra – ecstatic dance themes, characteristic bass patterns and vocal melodies. The dances glow with rhythmic energy and orientalism, transporting the listener to Polovet’s camp in the middle of the party. The second piece for piano duet will be performed at the end of the concert. Maurice Ravel’s La waltz for two pianos, a marvellous paraphrase and deconstruction of the world of the Viennese waltz. Ravel’s vision is both a tribute and a kind of dance of destruction, where a cheerful waltz gradually dissolves into a mesmerising whirlwind. The two-piano version reveals the structural precision and rhythmic power of the work with extreme clarity: sparkling patterns, dramatic dynamic shifts and twisted waltz fragments lead the listener towards the work’s explosive conclusion.

Between piano duos, Maria and Pauli perform a solo piano programme, diving into the romantic world of Chopin and Liszt through the Spanish world. Pauli’s fingers can also be heard improvising a waltz in the moment.

Teachers from Turku Conservatory perform in the Diamond Series. The series is supported by the Turku Conservatory Support Foundation and the Liedo Savings Bank Foundation. Admission to the concerts is free, welcome!