Finnish Conducting School Masterclass in Sofia, Bulgaria October 15–20, 2023 "The Art of Rehearsing the Orchestra" The Finnish conductor Sasha Mäkilä will be leading a special workshop for advanced conducting students in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 15–20, 2023. Ten...

Ten participants will get an intense masterclass experience over five days in Sofia, Bulgaria, working with maestro Sasha Mäkilä and the Sofia Sinfonietta. The course consists of five rehearsals and a public concert at the cultural center "Nadezhda", as well as...

On May 27th and 28th Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra will perform Leevi Madetoja's 1st symphony in its original 1916 guise for the first time in a hundred years. The composer made several changes to his first symphony in 1923 when he performed it...

Sasha Mäkilä will jump in at a short notice to replace maestro Grant Llewellyn at Kuopio Symphony Orchestra concert on January 27, "Fantastic British Evening". The program will stay the same, Britten's Violin Concerto with Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Ralph Vaughan...

Maestro Sasha Mäkilä debuts at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet with a run of thirteen shows of Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet Nutcracker and the Mouse King, with choreography by Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayk. The matinée performance on November 27 will also be...

Despite the worldwide corona epidemic the improved situation in Estonia allows for organising Sasha Mäkilä's traditional summer conducting masterclass with the Pärnu City Orchestra on August 10-15. Four students will be working alongside maestro Mäkilä on Beethoven's...

17th International Sasha Mäkilä Conducting Masterclass in Helsinki February 17-21, 2020Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra Ten participants will get an intense masterclass experience over five days in Helsinki, Finland, working with maestro Sasha Mäkilä and the...

15th International Sasha Mäkilä Conducting Masterclass February 18-22, 2019 Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra Ten participants will get an intense masterclass experience over five days in Helsinki, Finland, working with maestro Sasha Mäkilä and the string section of the...

Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra are touring China on December 24, 2018 - January 3, 2019. The cities toured are Taicang, Yinchuan, Jinchang, Xi'an, Jiaxing, Cixi, Maanshan, Zhoushan Island and Shanghai. The orchestra will perform works by...

On December 19, 2018, Sasha Mäkilä successfully defended his PhD thesis "Conducting Madetoja - Discoveries about the Art and Profession of Conducting" at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in Tallinn, Estonia. His artistic research project consisted of...