Fiskars Summer Festival 2026

Fiskars Summer Festival is held for the seventh time in the historic mill village of Fiskars. The festival centers on an intensive masterclass for young conductors and a mentoring programme for young instrumentalists. The programme features orchestra and chamber music concerts where students perform alongside their mentors and invited soloists.

The festival's open public concert (free admission) is Young Conductors' Showcase on Fri 31.7. At Puimala: masterclass conducting students lead the Fiskars Festival Orchestra with violinist Otto Antikainen and mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill as soloists. The programme includes works by Mozart, Sibelius, Britten and Beethoven.

The festival concludes on Sat 1.8. at 19:00 at Puimala. The conductor is Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the soloist is Karen Cargill, who sings Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder (1857-58). Other works include Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Tarkiainen's Ring of Fire and Love and Dvořák's 7th Symphony.

Full programme:

Copper Workshop 28.7.2026 - Opening Concert & Dinner: It's Almost All about Tchaikovsky those Italian holidays…
Rossini: String Sonata No. 1 (12') / Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, op. 35a (12') / Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence (35')

Lukaali 30.7.2026 - Chamber Music Concert: 9+10+22 = 3 great chamber works
Mustonen: String Nonet No. 2 (15') / Bernard: Divertissement (23') / Intermission / Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, arrangement for string orchestra (17')

KWUM 31.7.2026 - Chamber Music Concert: A French Sandwich with an Austrian Filling
Ibert: Deux Mouvements (7') / Pépin: Feuilles d'Eau de Silvacane (18') / Mozart: Oboe Quartet (14') / Debussy: Trio (19')

Puimala 31.7.2026 - Free admission! Young Conductors' Showcase / Open House: Sparkling Wit and Dark Spells
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (5') / Sibelius: Six Humoresques (21') / Britten: A Charm of Lullabies (13') / Intermission (20') / Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 (28')

Puimala 1.8.2026 - Festival Finale at 19:00
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Tarkiainen Ring of Fire and Love, Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder (soloist Karen Cargill)