St. Michel Strings Debut Concert

On 18th March, the Michel Strings will be conducted by James Kahane, a  French-based conductor living in Finland, who will arrive in Mikkeli  for his first visit. The concert program includes Gustav Holst’s St.  Paul’s Suite, Five windows on winter by Canadian composer Matthew  Whittal, for chromatic kantele and string orchestra with soloist Hedi  Viisma and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classic Florence Memories, Op. 70.  Welcome! The concert will be streamed at semilive.fi.

In addition to composing, Gustav Holst did his day job as a music  teacher in schools. For the longest time, he worked at St. Paul’s Girls’  School, which is also accompanied by the opening work of this concert.  The four-part series for string orchestra is one of many works that  Holst composed for the students of his school. Holst liked his work at  the school and appreciated the fact that the school built a soundproof  studio and workspaces for…