St. Michel Strings concert to be streamed live on Nov 20
St. Michel Strings will webcast the concert on November 20th featuring harpsichordist Matias Häkkinen and flautist Sami Junnonen. This concert will finish Sasha Mäkilä's cycle of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with St. Michel Strings, and the program will be...
Sasha Mäkilä’s conducting masterclasses in Pärnu and Mikkeli
In 2014 Sasha Mäkilä will be teaching two more conducting masterclasses, one in Pärnu, Estonia in May 18 - 24 and one in Mikkeli, Finland in June 27 - July 3. The active participants will all get a minimum of 20 minutes podium time during the rehearsal days, plus they...
Success in South Korea for Sasha Mäkilä and St. Michel Strings
This year's Great Mountains Music Festival, the most prestigious classical music summer event in South Korea, invited maestro Sasha Mäkilä to be the festival conductor and in this capacity to conduct both the GMMFS Festival Orchestra as well as his own ensemble St....
Sasha Mäkilä gets the Pacius Award 2013
Since 1991, the University of Helsinki has each year presented a person or organisation with the Pacius Award for considerable efforts to advance the musical life of the University. The award is given to honour the memory of Pacius. HYMS, the music society of the...